Record carriers containing a user's preferred order of reproduction of items of information included therein, and apparatus for use with and/or for creating such record carriers

摘要

Record carriers containing a user's preferred order of reproduction of items of information included therein, and reproducing apparatus for use with and/or recording apparatus for creating the record carriers. The reproducing apparatus reproduces items of information which have been recorded on the record carrier at respective locations within a single continuous time sequence in accordance with the user's preferred order of reproduction after reading information containing the user's preferred order of reproduction from the record carrier. The recording apparatus enable the user's preferred order of reproduction to be entered into the recording apparatus, and records information containing the user's preferred order of reproduction on the record carrier. The record carriers may include a user writable region and a pre-mastered region including pointer information identifying where within the user writable region a user table of contents is or will be located.