Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Se-hee Kang

Dong-hwan Kim

Tae-woon Jeong

Himanshu Anand

Seung-eon Kim

Pepalavenkata Sunil

A display apparatus having a communicator configured to communicate with an external device; a display; and a controller configured to receive schedule information about reproduction of a plurality of pieces of content from the external device, determine whether second content to be reproduced following first content is completely downloadable until a reproducing completion time of the first content based on the received schedule information, download the second content while reproducing the first content if it is determined that the second content is completely downloadable, and start downloading the second content instead of reproducing first content if it is determined that the second content is not completely downloadable.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

A method of reproducing information, and more particularly, a method of playing an optical recording medium storing music files by which a user can load only desired directories from the optical recording medium to reproduce the music files contained therein. Directories are searched from the optical recording medium and are displayed on a screen if the optical recording medium is driven. Desired ones of the directories are selected from the displayed directories and are loaded. Information corresponding to the loaded directories is reproduced. Only a directory selected by a user is loaded and reproduced. Thus, disc-loading time is saved so that the user can rapidly reproduce desired information.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Se-hee Kang