A Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television compliant information processing apparatus, comprising; a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcast comprising a transport stream including first video data and first definition information (broadcast AIT), wherein the first definition information (broadcast AIT) defines a life cycle of first application data (CE-HTML), a network connection unit configured to use a connection over a network comprising the Internet to receive a transport stream comprising second video data, and description information (XML-AIT) including second definition information, the first application data (CE-HTML) indicating a location of the second definition information in the network, and to receive the first application data (CE-HTML) from the network, a media player configured to reproduce audio/video content, and a demultiplexer connected to the broadcast reception unit and to the network connection unit for separating the first or second video data and the first or second definition information from the transport stream received by the broadcast reception unit and the network connection unit respectively, a management unit configured: to acquire the first video data and the first definition information (broadcast AIT) via the broadcast reception unit and the demultiplexer, to manage the first application data (CE-HTML) based on the first definition information (broadcast AIT), to store in a data store a description of a processing procedure included in the first application data (CE-HTML) of the first video data for resuming reception of the first video data after the second video data ends (S-12), to turn off reception of the first video data by the broadcast reception unit upon acquiring the description information, to instruct the media player to acquire the second video data via the network connection unit and the demultiplexer, and to instruct the media player to reproduce the second video, after the first video data has been switched from reproduction, and, while the second video data is acquired and reproduced, to acquire, via the network connection unit and the demultiplexer, the description information (XML-AIT) including the second definition information by extracting a location of the description information (XML-AIT) from the first application data (CE-HTML), to manage the first application data (CE-HTML) based on the second definition information included in the description information (XML-AIT), to reproduce the second video data based on user selection of the second video data (S-7), and after the second video data ends, to retrieve the description of the processing procedure included in the first application data (CE-HTML) of the first video data to resume reception of the first video data as the reproduction of the second video data ends. to acquire the first video data and the first definition information (broadcast AIT) via the broadcast reception unit and the demultiplexer, to manage the first application data (CE-HTML) based on the first definition information (broadcast AIT), to store in a data store a description of a processing procedure included in the first application data (CE-HTML) of the first video data for resuming reception of the first video data after the second video data ends (S-12), to turn off reception of the first video data by the broadcast reception unit upon acquiring the description information, to instruct the media player to acquire the second video data via the network connection unit and the demultiplexer, and to instruct the media player to reproduce the second video, after the first video data has been switched from reproduction, and, while the second video data is acquired and reproduced, to acquire, via the network connection unit and the demultiplexer, the description information (XML-AIT) including the second definition information by extracting a location of the description information (XML-AIT) from the first application data (CE-HTML), to manage the first application data (CE-HTML) based on the second definition information included in the description information (XML-AIT), to reproduce the second video data based on user selection of the second video data (S-7), and after the second video data ends, to retrieve the description of the processing procedure included in the first application data (CE-HTML) of the first video data to resume reception of the first video data as the reproduction of the second video data ends.