Sony Corporation

Hajime Kanno

Kenichi Saito

Hiroshi Fujisawa

Kanji Mita

Haruyuki Miura

A dubbing apparatus for inhibiting high-speed dubbing for a predetermined time period if, at a time of high-speed dubbing of a program from a first storage medium onto a second storage medium, the first storage medium is found to have been subjected to high-speed dubbing earlier by another predetermined time period. The apparatus is arranged to indicate that high-speed dubbing is being inhibited while displaying a waiting time to be observed before high-speed dubbing is again permitted.

Dubbing apparatus and dubbing method

A system having a plurality of disc reproducing apparatus and a controller for controlling the apparatus. The controller manages control so that no silent time interval is produced during disc exchange or during switching between the plural disc reproducing apparatus.

Apparatus and method for controlling plural disc reproducing apparatus

A loading apparatus for a recording medium such as a disc-like recording medium includes a transfer member, a drive unit, a detector and a controller. The transfer member moves between a recording medium changing position and a disc-like recording medium recording and/or reproducing position. The drive unit drives the transfer member. The detector continuously detects a position of the transfer member moved on the basis of a drive force from the drive unit in accordance with a movement of a movable part of the drive unit. The controller controls the drive unit so that a moving speed of the transfer member is slowed under the condition prior to arriving at the changing position and the recording/reproducing position of the transfer member on the basis of a detection signal from the detector.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Hajime Kanno