PURPOSE: To make the remote control system good at handleability by receiving and discriminating a remote control signal to be sent for the other equipment by one or more equipment on the system to be separately operated in a remote control unit.

CONSTITUTION: On the case a video reproduced by an arbitrary VTR 12 is viewed by a TV 11 when a TV 11 is turned off, a remote control 10 for VTR controls the reproduction of an arbitrary VTR 12. As the TV 11 performs discrimination by receiving the signal of the remote control 10 for VTR at all times using a remote control receiving unit 5, the reproduction of the arbitrary VTR 12 can be estimated, Based on it, the TV 11 is turned on and the input of the TV 11 is switched to an external input terminal 8 where signal output 7 to be outputted by the arbitrary VTR 12. These series of operation is automatically performed.