Service relay apparatus for providing multimedia content information to a user terminal

摘要

A system is arranged by a service providing apparatus (109) for storing a plurality of contents data (110) and capable of transmitting the contents data via network interfaces (116a/116b) and a communication path (112); and also a service relaying apparatus (101) for producing compressed moving picture data having a high image quality from still picture data, and capable of transmitting the compressed moving picture data via network interfaces (115a/115b) and another communication path (111) to a reproducing terminal (106). As a result, desirable contents data can be displayed by the reproducing terminal which owns a capability of displaying the compressed moving picture data, but does not own such a capability of displaying the desirable contents data.