INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND METHOD THEREFOR, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM THEREOF

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to distinguish between various types of inputted contents. SOLUTION: A receiver for receiving broadcast contents receives contents in step S1. When sending out the received contents to other equipment connected to digital bus or the like, the receiver sends it out with broadcasting bits attached to it, to indicate that it is contents broadcast in real time. The other equipment decides that the inputted contents is one broadcast in real time, when the broadcasting bits are attached to the inputted contents, while deciding that the contents is one which is temporarily recorded, and then regenerated when there is no broadcasting bits attached to it.