Digital home audiovisual information recording and playback apparatus comprising a microprocessor associated, through a digital interface, with display means, through another interface with sound playback means and through a telecommunications interface with means for loadind audio selection or visual selection digital information. The invention is characterized by control means (1021 to 1025) for controlling display means, enabling an operating mode to be selected from a menu of three modes, in which the device either plays back information stored in its mass memory, records new digitalized information in its mass memory or combines analog information from a microphone with digitalized information received from the mass memory.