DATA DISTRIBUTOR AND DATA DISTRIBUTION METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric program guide(EPG) data required for displaying the EPG from a large number of program arrangement information and to provide information at the time, including someone in a family has reserved the video recording of a program simultaneously. SOLUTION: An STB 7 receives program arrangement information from a data broadcast station 1 and extracts EPG data from the program arrangement information and also receives terminal data denoting a command of video recording reservation sent from a portable terminal 8N. Then the EPG data and the terminal data are distributed to pluralities of portable terminals 81-8N.