Disclosed herein is a reproducing device including: a receiving section configured to receive IP-distributed content data and caption data; a content decoding section configured to generate a content video signal; an input section configured to input a user setting adopted to select at least one of a display mode and an edge of a character in relation to a caption; a retaining section configured to retain the input user setting; a caption information analyzing section configured to separate the caption data in time series, and generate intermediate caption information; an updating section configured to overwrite and update the intermediate caption information; a caption video signal generating section configured to generate a caption video signal; and a synthesizing section configured to superimpose and synthesize the caption video signal on the content video signal.