A recording medium retaining data for menu control, a menu control method and an apparatus are provided for creating a menu highly expressive and attractive to the viewer. When operation of a menu button is determined on a menu created with a moving picture with sound, the menu button turns into action highlighting and the color of the button changes into a highlight color. In order to emphasize action highlighting of the menu button, a specific short moving picture with a sound is automatically replayed. After the replay of the moving picture, the display jumps to a chapter of a title selected with the menu button and a replay is started.
In a combination DVD apparatus and TV set according to the invention comprises a DVD playback section for playing back DVDs, a display section for displaying pictures played back by the DVD playback section and burn-in prevention means for preventing prolonged display of a disk menu when the disk menu is displayed on the display section, the burn-in prevention means determines that a disk menu is displayed while the DVD playback section is repeating playback of a certain range of a DVD (steps S5 to S7).
A method and apparatus for displaying different presentations of program material allows various presentations of a DVD movie, for example, to be displayed on a display for a user's selection. The various presentations might involve different angles from which a user must select or different chapters from which a program should begin. The selection of a presentation is facilitated by displaying the various options on a single display such that the user can quickly choose which presentation to choose. Furthermore, audio is provided with chapter presentations to assist a user in selecting a chapter from where playback should be initiated.
A game machine capable of causing a player to pay attention to a game title image. The game machine comprises a default game title image storing section (52), an optional game title image storing section (54), an operation input section (60), a selection section (62), and a display section (64). When no game operation input is made within a predetermined time after a predetermined timing, the selection section (62) selects a default game title image so that the default game title image is displayed by the display section (62). When any game operation input is made within a predetermined time, on the other hand, either a default or optional game title image is displayed by the display section (62) depending on whether the content of the game operation input satisfies a predetermined condition.
