An information processing apparatus comprising: a controller communication unit configured to receive operation information from a remote controller, the operation information indicating a user's operation for switching a category; a server communication unit configured to connect to a network; and a processor configured to: - acquire content information from a content server via the network, the content information including thumbnails, category information for indicating the respective category to which content corresponding to the thumbnails belongs and group information for grouping the thumbnails of the content belonging to a category, - detect a user's operation based on the received operation information; - output content in a part including a middle of a display screen and output the thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen in a manner that the thumbnails overlap the outputted content, - according to the detected user's operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the outputted thumbnails belongs, end display of the thumbnails of the current category and output the thumbnails of a new category, and - output the thumbnails in groups based on the group information such that a distance between any thumbnail in a group and any thumbnail in another group is greater than a distance between any two adjacent thumbnails within any one group, and such that at least one of the groups comprises two or more thumbnails and the thumbnails in the group do not overlap each other. a controller communication unit configured to receive operation information from a remote controller, the operation information indicating a user's operation for switching a category; a server communication unit configured to connect to a network; and a processor configured to: - acquire content information from a content server via the network, the content information including thumbnails, category information for indicating the respective category to which content corresponding to the thumbnails belongs and group information for grouping the thumbnails of the content belonging to a category, - detect a user's operation based on the received operation information; - output content in a part including a middle of a display screen and output the thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen in a manner that the thumbnails overlap the outputted content, - according to the detected user's operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the outputted thumbnails belongs, end display of the thumbnails of the current category and output the thumbnails of a new category, and - output the thumbnails in groups based on the group information such that a distance between any thumbnail in a group and any thumbnail in another group is greater than a distance between any two adjacent thumbnails within any one group, and such that at least one of the groups comprises two or more thumbnails and the thumbnails in the group do not overlap each other. - acquire content information from a content server via the network, the content information including thumbnails, category information for indicating the respective category to which content corresponding to the thumbnails belongs and group information for grouping the thumbnails of the content belonging to a category, - detect a user's operation based on the received operation information; - output content in a part including a middle of a display screen and output the thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen in a manner that the thumbnails overlap the outputted content, - according to the detected user's operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the outputted thumbnails belongs, end display of the thumbnails of the current category and output the thumbnails of a new category, and - output the thumbnails in groups based on the group information such that a distance between any thumbnail in a group and any thumbnail in another group is greater than a distance between any two adjacent thumbnails within any one group, and such that at least one of the groups comprises two or more thumbnails and the thumbnails in the group do not overlap each other.