摘要 |
A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for providing a channel search screen are provided, the apparatus including a broadcast receiving unit which tunes broadcast channels each for a time period, a storage media which classifiably stores, in each broadcast channel category, an amount of still images of previous broadcasts from the broadcast channels tuned by the broadcast receiving unit; and a combining unit which generates one broadcast screen by combining a first image from either a broadcast channel currently tuned by a user among the still images stored in the storage media or from a broadcast channel selected by the user, and a second image displaying a series of the still images of at least one broadcast channel among the still images stored in the storage media. Information about other channels such as Electronic Program Guide is improved such that still images of other channels are provided as animation.
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