PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAYING AND CONTROL DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER

摘要

A program guide displaying device which allows a user to quickly move a cursor between program guides suitable to the contents set by the user on a program guiding screen and a television receiver. A plurality of program guides are displayed on a display device in a matrix-like state by respectively using either one of the axes of ordinate and abscissa for plotting channel numbers and the other for plotting time and a cursor is displayed so as to indicate one program; and a display control means which displays program guides in such a way that the program guides suitable to the set contents of the user can be discriminated from the program guides which are not suitable to the set contents and a cursor control means which moves the cursor to the program guides suitable to the set contents of the user in a designated direction when a leftward, rightward, upward or downward cursor moving command is inputted are provided.