Patent ID: 8316403
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A receiving apparatus comprising: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a broadcast signal including a first broadcast program through a first transmission path and reproduces a broadcast program from the received broadcast signal; a content data obtaining unit which obtains a video content data including a first video content data having the same content as the first broadcast program from a content data server through a second transmission path that is different from the first transmission path; a play unit which reproduces the video content data obtained by the content data obtaining unit; a difference detection unit which detects a difference between a broadcast ending time at which broadcast of the first broadcast program is to end and a reproduction ending time at which reproduction of the first video content data is to end in the case where the first video content data is being reproduced by the play unit; and a control unit which, in the case where the broadcast ending time of the first broadcast program is different from the reproduction ending time of the first video content data, controls the content data obtaining unit so as to obtain from the content data server through the second transmission path a second video content data having the same content as a second broadcast program to be broadcast following the first broadcast program, the first and second broadcast programs being broadcast on the same broadcast channel, and controls the play unit so as to reproduce the second video content data following the first video content data being played.