To effectively utilize a recording medium in the case of recording program information supplied from a satellite broadcast, a ground broadcast and a wired broadcast or the like and to allow a user to easily conduct operations required for retrieval and management or the like of recorded information.

The information reproducing and reproducing system 10 roughly consists of an information recording service center 3 that is installed on a network 2 and records program information supplied from a satellite broadcast, a ground broadcast and a wired broadcast or the like and user terminals (reproduction terminals) 1A, 1B that are connected to the information recording service center 3 via a network 2. The information recording service center 3 consists of a VOD server 31 that records and manages the program information, a parabolic antenna 33 that receives the satellite broadcast, a ground wave antenna 34 that receives a radio wave of the ground broadcast, a cable 35 that receives a cable wired broadcast and a tuner encoder 32 that receives a signal of the program information supplied from them and encodes the signal.