摘要 |
PURPOSE:To lessen a viewer being irritated who is waiting for a desired still picture display program has when the program is selected, by displaying the wainting time momently until the program is actually received on CRT, etc. CONSTITUTION:Decoder 1, receiving the signal regarding a still picture display program discriminated from a received signal, detects a program code in each signal to send address signal ADS of contents corresponds to each program to memory 31 or 32 via address switching circuit 2. In respective areas 32A, 32B...32J of memory 32, up-to-date program ceasing periods of respective programs are held and in respective areas 31A, 31B...31J of memory 31, data regarding the point in time of the up-to-date received signal as to a selected program are stored in the form of the counting contents of counter 5. Since the elapse time from the point in time is counted by counter 5, the waiting time up to the display of the program is displayed momently as the results of operator 72. |