Television broadcast receiver and television broadcast receiving method

摘要

Copyright protection for a broadcast signal, personally acquired content or personal information can be easily achieved. For such an object, a digital television broadcast receiver having a print data output unit comprises a specification information detection unit 56 k 1 to detect whether or not specification information is added to input content, a proper information discrimination unit 56 k 2 to discriminate whether or not the detected specification information is proper information, and a print output control unit 56 k 4 to set the print data output unit in an operation allowed sate when the specification information is the proper information and to set the print data output unit in an operation disallowed state when the specification information is not the proper information.