Recording medium having electronic circuit and method for using thereof

摘要

A recording medium including an electronic circuit which can exploit advantages of being able to easily provide control corresponding to characteristics of information stored in the information recording portion and a method for using such recording medium. An intelligent disc (1) includes a disc portion (3) for storing information and an intelligent circuit portion (2) for processing information. The information to be reproduced in an external device (10) is stored in the disc portion (3) and parameters for controlling reproduction of information in the external device (10), are stored in the intelligent circuit portion (2). The information is reproduced by the external device (10) using the parameters.