INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

Each of program contents has a plurality of program statuses, for example, that it has been recorded, it has not been recorded yet, its recording has been scheduled, its recording has not been scheduled yet, and that its reception is done soon. In response to a selection of a related program on a page of information related to base programs, a detailed operation on-screen-display about that related program is presented. If the program status of the related program is that it has been recorded, then "Playback" and "Erase Recording" are presented, as operation methods, on the a detailed operation on-screen-display. If the program status of the related program is that its recording has not been scheduled yet, then "Schedule Recording" is presented, as an operation method, on the a detailed operation on-screen-display. In this way, information related to a program is given to the user currently viewing that program, thereby smoothly leading him or her to a subsequent recording schedule operation without losing his or her interest induced by his or her viewing of that program.