Method and apparatus for transmiting broadcast programs, digital broadcast receiver, digital broadcast recorder, digital broadcast recorder/player

摘要

In digital broadcasting capable of transmitting broadcast program information to a receiving apparatus, using an event information table (EIT) describing information about a program present on a MPEG stream, when a broadcast program is switched on the same stream, an event information table (EIT) is transmitted at reduced time intervals or an event identifier identifying broadcast program information is inserted into a program map table including program management information (PMT) so that the start of a broadcast program can be precisely detected without a delay even in the case where a plurality of broadcast programs are successively transmitted without a break. <IMAGE>