Disk device

Abstract

A disk device for recording required information in or reproducing recorded information from a disk type information recording medium including a read-in area, a user-data area and a read-out area and capable of recording genre of audiovisual information recorded in the user-data area in a block of the read-in area as a text data, includes: an input unit for inputting instructions and information related to a recording information in and reproducing information from the disk type information recording medium; and a control unit for executing a control for stopping reproduction of audiovisual information corresponding to a genre when kind information of the genre inputted by an inputting operation of the input unit and preliminarily recorded in a memory as genre data coincides with kind information of the genre read out from the read-in area during reproduction of information of the disk type information memory medium.

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