| 摘要 |
A content reception and reproduction apparatus and content reception and reproduction method capable of avoiding the discontinuity of content reproduction and preventing the user from experiencing an unpleasant feeling, such as irritation or anxiety, so that the user can pleasantly enjoy the content, has an auxiliary content acquiring mechanism to acquire a reproducible content other than a main content, as an auxiliary content. A content switching mechanism switches a content for reproduction by a reproduction mechanism to any one of the main content and the auxiliary content. The main content for reproduction is switched to the auxiliary content when the amount of accumulation of the main contents falls short of a predetermined reference amount during a reproduction of the main contents. The content for reproduction is returned to the main content when the amount of accumulation exceeds the reference amount.
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