1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and, more specifically, an audiovisual recording apparatus.
2. Description of the Related Art
Hard disk drive (HDD) recorders configured to receive television broadcasts and to record them onto HDDs have been available. Recently, video cameras equipped with HDDs have also been available.
In such HDD recorders or HDD-equipped video cameras, HDDs are used to temporarily record audio-video data such as audio-video data of recorded television broadcasts or captured audio-video data. Audio-video data temporarily recorded on HDDs is usually duplicated and recorded onto digital versatile disks (DVDs) by users using personal computers (PCs), built-in DVD drives, or the like.
For example, U.S. Patent Laid-Open No. 2004/0246534 discloses a video camera capable of duplicating audio-video data to a DVD by a single touch operation in cooperation with an application operating on a PC.
When recording audio-video data recorded in the manner described above onto external media, users search on PCs for a desired audio-video data file from a large number of audio-video data files and enter an instruction to record it.