CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND MENU SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD

摘要

Favorable visual appearance and ease of operation are required in the user interface of digital home appliances using a television screen. An array of function icons (70) including multiple function icons representing respective types of media that can be played and an array of content icons (72) including multiple content icons representing items of contents that can be played are displayed practically at the center of an on-screen menu (50) such that the arrays intersect. A moving image icon (56), which is a function icon displayed in an area of intersection 76 in which the array of function icons (70) and the array of content icons (72) intersect, is highlighted by a color different from that of the other function icons and by an enlarged view. In the array of content icons (72), the hierarchy of the contents is visually represented.