Information recording disc and information reproducing system

Abstract

An information recording disc has a burst cutting area (BCA) for recording control information for a reproducing apparatus by removing a reflective layer of the disc in a striped shape and a data recording area for recording user data. The burst cutting area includes at least one BCA control information area. The BCA control information area has an application identifier area for identifying applications of control data, a data length area for indicating data length of the control data, and an application specific data area for recording the control data. Also, an information reproducing drive reproduces data from the information recording disc.

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       14 . An information recording disc comprising a burst cutting area, 
 wherein the burst cutting area includes an application identifier area for recording an application identifier, an application specific data area for recording control data, and a data length area for recording data length of the application specific data area, and    wherein the application identifier indicates the use of the control data.