Sony Corporation

Min-Jae Han

Kissei Matsumoto

Takuya Kaeriyama

Tsutomu Imai

Seiichi Jinbo

Seilchi Jinbo

A recording and reproducing apparatus has a communicating unit, a reading unit, a storing unit, a control unit, and an output unit. The communicating unit transmits and receives data to/from an information center in which a plurality of additional information have been stored. The reading unit reads out recorded data from a recording medium on which a plurality of data and index data of a plurality of data have been recorded. The data read out from the recording medium by the reading unit is stored in the storing unit. The control unit reads out the additional information corresponding to the recording medium from which the data is read out by the reading unit from the information center by the communicating unit and writes the read-out additional information into the storing unit as additional data of the recording medium which is read out by the reading unit. The output unit outputs the data stored in the storing unit and the additional data.

Recording and reproducing apparatus and terminal apparatus

A high-speed dubbing unitfor dubbing digital data from an optical diskto a hard diskat a high speed is connected via a public telephone line to a payment imposing unit. A control unitis provided for generating in its basic data generatorB basic data for imposing the payment from at least data indicative of the user identification and data indicative of the speed for recording the data read out from the optical diskinto the hard diskand transmitting the basic data to the payment imposing unit. The payment imposing unitperforms the imposing of the payment according to the basic data received from the control unitand transmits data indicative of the completion of imposing the payment to the control unit. In response to the data indicative of the completion of the payment, the control unitdirects the high-speed dubbing unitto start recording the data read out from the optical diskinto the hard disk

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Min-Jae Han