A user selection of one or more of a plurality of content is received. The selected content is encrypted by a first encryption key that is remote and unknown to the distribution server. Payment information associated with the user selection is also received and verified. The selected content from is retrieved from a remote database. The first encryption key corresponding to the selected content to decrypt the encrypted content corresponding to the user selection is obtained. Decryption is performed by a hardware-based engine of the distribution server that is isolated from a host processor of the distribution server. The content corresponding to the user selection is encrypted according to a second encryption key that is known to the distribution server.

A recording medium records data including a digital stream where video information has been encoded. A recording region of the recording medium has a first recording region where reading is performed at a first read rate, and a second recording region where reading is performed at a second read rate that is faster than the first read rate. The data is classified into digital stream data having a real-time attribute and a data file having a non-real-time attribute in a file system of the data. The digital stream is not continuously recorded spanning a boundary between the first recording region and the second recording region. The data file is permitted to be continuously recorded spanning the boundary.

The present technology relates to a reproduction device, reproduction method, and recording medium that enable graphics with an appropriate brightness to be displayed on a video having a wide dynamic range of brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a first brightness range that is wider than a second brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and graphics data that is superimposed on the extended video and that has the second brightness range. The reproduction device converts a first pixel value of the graphics to a second pixel value in the brightness characteristic of the extended video represented by the brightness characteristic information, and synthesizes the extended video. The present technology can be applied to players that reproduce contents.

An optical storage medium, a method for preparing an optical storage medium, and a system are provided. In this application, the optical storage medium includes a substrate and at least one data layer, the data layer includes a recording layer and a spacer layer, the recording layer is located on the spacer layer, and the data layer is located above the substrate. The recording layer may store data, the recording layer includes an area in which a phase change material is distributed and an area in which no phase change material is distributed, and the two different areas may indicate different data.

According to the type of an image stored in an information recording medium and display function information of a display device, an displayable image is acquired from the recording medium and output to the display device. A data processing unit configured to reproduce data from an information recording medium inputs display function information for each of the HDR 1, HDR 2, and SDR images from a display device configured to display reproduction data, acquires HDR identification information indicating whether image data recorded in the information recording medium includes each of the HDR 1, HDR 2, and SDR images from a database file recorded in the information recording medium, and reads image data displayable on the display device from the information recording medium on the basis of results of comparison between the acquired display device function information and the HDR identification information, and outputs the same to the display device.

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a data processing unit configured to execute a data reproduction process. The data processing unit includes a decode unit that decodes reproduction control information of subtitle data included in reproduction target data, and the decode unit acquires color space designation information, electro-optical transfer function (EOTF) designation information, and color depth designation information that are recorded in subtitle data reproduction control information, and generates output subtitle data in accordance with acquired information.

To realize efficient access in case of restoring read failure data by RMW at time of data rewriting, a recording apparatus includes a write/read unit capable of performing data writing in a second data unit, in which a plurality of first data units of a predetermined amount of data are consecutive, and data reading in the first data unit with respect to a recording medium and a control unit. In response to a rewrite instruction of data, the control unit instructs the write/read unit to generate write data in the second data unit using update data relevant to the rewrite instruction and recorded data read out from the recording medium and to write the write data at a non-recording address on the recording medium, and generates or updates replacement information for associating address at which the write data is written, as a replacement destination, with address of a replacement source.

The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.

There is provided a recording adjustment device, a recording adjustment method, and a program of which enables recording compensation for an optical disc for a high-linear density to be realized. The recording adjustment device according to an embodiment of the present technique executes filter processing on the basis of a regenerative signal obtained by reproducing data recorded in a recording medium, and a recording pattern of marks and spaces of the data, identifies an impulse response of a system, calculates a difference in amplitude between an output from the filter processing after the identification of the impulse response and the regenerative signal every edge type, and detects a slope of a step response in the vicinity of an edge position.

A playback device plays video streams recorded in a recording medium, in which are one or more video streams including at least one of an HDR stream whose dynamic range of luminance of video corresponds to a high dynamic range (HDR), and an SDR stream whose dynamic range of luminance of video corresponds to a standard dynamic range (SDR) narrower than HDR, and identification information indicating whether the HDR stream is included in the one or more video streams. A playback method of the playback device includes: reading the identification information from the recording medium; acquiring playback capability information indicating whether the playback device can play the HDR stream, and display capability information indicating whether a connected display device can display the HDR video; and deciding on a video stream from the one or more video streams, according to the identification information, the playback capability information, and the display capability information.