摘要 |
PURPOSE:To attain high speed transmission by discriminating the acceptance of reception at a high speed in the terminal equipment receiving a charged program broadcast service using a communication satellite, CONSTITUTION:The terminal equipment is provided with a memory 11 storing subscribed group number for each of plural service classes and retrieves service class number (SV) 15 of a program at first in the case of reception. When a service class number coincident with the set service class number (SV) 15 is in existence, the terminal equipment is constituted so as to retrieve whether or not a subscribed group number coincident with a sent subscriber group number is in existence based on a corresponding service class number 15. Even in the case with the viewing contract of plural program or services, the acceptance of the reception is discriminated by retrieving only a group ID in an area coincident with the program service class number and high speed discrimination is attained. |