To provide the video and audio system in which various information including audio, video and characters are reproduced/displayed irrespective of the kinds of media that record the information and the information is properly linked.

A body 10 has a monitor 11 to display video information. Audio information is inputted by a cassette tape drive 12 or a CD drive 13 or an MD drive 14. Video information is inputted by a video tape drive 15 or an LD drive 16. Character information is inputted by an FD drive 17 or a scanner 18. When the song being sung by a singer comes to the end of the row of the lyrics, the singer operates the scroll switch of a microphone 23 and scrolls the lyrics being displayed on the monitor 11. Moreover, the monitor 11 displays the lyrics as well as the video recorded in an LD, for example.