Abstract:
When a request for retrieving digital content of a broadcast program, etc., recorded in a record section 5 is made through an operation section 11, information of an electronic program guide, etc., supplementary to the digital content is read from the record section 5 and is supplied to a video signal generation section 6. The video signal generation section 6 performs predetermined encode processing for the information of the electronic program guide, etc., and supplies to a monitor 8 for producing scroll display in the bottom portion of a display screen of the monitor 8 for use of retrieval, etc.
Abstract:
A remote control apparatus is made up of a transceiver 1 for remotely controlling an electronic machine such as a television receiver 3 or a recorder 4 and a portable remote controller 2 for giving a remote control command to the transceiver 1. The transceiver 1 has section for extracting supplementary information of an electronic program guide, etc., from television broadcasts and the remote controller 2 has storage section for storing control information to remotely control electronic machines in such a manner that the control information can be updated and storage section for storing the supplementary information of an electronic program guide, etc., supplied from the transceiver 1 in such a manner that the supplementary information can be updated.