DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for simply selecting and receiving the broadcast program of interested digital broadcasting. SOLUTION: Broadcast is received by a tuner 1, etc., from a radio wave signal S1 and is displayed, etc., on a video/voice monitor 9 for viewing. A viewer designates a concerning key word by inputting from a keyboard 12 and it is fetched into MPU 10 by the procedure of a key word input processing part 14a to be stored in a storing part 11. MPU 10 fetches EPG data from a demultiplexer 4 by the procedure of a program retrieval processing part 14b, retrieves a word/phrase coinciding the key word stored in the storing part 11 from the contents of EPG(electronic programming guide) data and at the time of retrieving the coinciding word/phrase, stores the start time and the finishing time of the program in the part 11. MPU 10 refers to a clock 15 by the procedure of a program receiving processing part 14c and, when it is the time to start the program stored in the part 11, controls a demultiplexer to select the broadcasting program and to start receiving.