A reception apparatus for use in a digital broadcasting system for transmitting and receiving, via a network, a broadcast stream created by time-multiplexing hierarchical coded content data for each of a plurality of user-selectable services from a broadcast source (1,11,21) that includes image and audio data and is used for broadcasting, said reception apparatus comprising: a receiving unit (301,302) operable to receive a broadcast stream via the network, characterized by further comprising: a synchronization unit that extracts from the received broadcast stream data bursts, each data burst comprising hierarchical coded data and including, in this order, a first synchronization code for a first higher layer code, the first higher layer code, a second synchronization code for a second lower layer code, and the second lower layer code, and each layer code (3, 4) including burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) indicating the time duration until the appearance of the next data burst of the same service, and the synchronization unit being configured to detect from the data burst the first synchronization code to generate a synchronization signal indicating the temporal position of said data burst; a decoding unit (303,304) operable to decode, from the extracted data burst, at least the second layer code, which is generated from the broadcast source that has been coded depending on a characteristic of the broadcast source, and which can be used for reproduction of the broadcast source, the second layer code being smaller in size than the first layer code and to extract from a layer code the burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) indicating the time duration until the appearance of the next data burst of the same service; a prediction window generating unit for receiving the generated synchronization signal from the synchronization unit and for receiving and storing the burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) from the decoding unit (303, 304) from the last decoded burst and for generating a prediction window signal, by using the burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) of the last decoded burst, in order to capture the second layer code of the data burst; wherein the synchronization unit is configured to extract the current data burst from the broadcast stream using the generated synchronization signal and, in case of detecting a loss of the burst synchronization signal, to extract the second layer code of the current data burst using the generated prediction window signal; and a reproducing unit operable to reproduce the user-selected service contained in the broadcast source using the decoded layer code. a receiving unit (301,302) operable to receive a broadcast stream via the network, a synchronization unit that extracts from the received broadcast stream data bursts, each data burst comprising hierarchical coded data and including, in this order, a first synchronization code for a first higher layer code, the first higher layer code, a second synchronization code for a second lower layer code, and the second lower layer code, and each layer code (3, 4) including burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) indicating the time duration until the appearance of the next data burst of the same service, and the synchronization unit being configured to detect from the data burst the first synchronization code to generate a synchronization signal indicating the temporal position of said data burst; a decoding unit (303,304) operable to decode, from the extracted data burst, at least the second layer code, which is generated from the broadcast source that has been coded depending on a characteristic of the broadcast source, and which can be used for reproduction of the broadcast source, the second layer code being smaller in size than the first layer code and to extract from a layer code the burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) indicating the time duration until the appearance of the next data burst of the same service; a prediction window generating unit for receiving the generated synchronization signal from the synchronization unit and for receiving and storing the burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) from the decoding unit (303, 304) from the last decoded burst and for generating a prediction window signal, by using the burst time information (Δ(T, ΔT) of the last decoded burst, in order to capture the second layer code of the data burst; wherein the synchronization unit is configured to extract the current data burst from the broadcast stream using the generated synchronization signal and, in case of detecting a loss of the burst synchronization signal, to extract the second layer code of the current data burst using the generated prediction window signal; and a reproducing unit operable to reproduce the user-selected service contained in the broadcast source using the decoded layer code.