Patent ID: 7193999

Claim:
A reception system, comprising: a receiving unit which is configured to receive a transport stream transmitted from a transmission system that produces and transmits the transport stream, the transport stream being produced by multiplexing compression coded contents of a program, and electronic program guide information including program specific information having at least an NIT, a PAT, and a PMT, and service information having at least an EIT, the transport stream comprising an NIT packet having the NIT; a PID designating unit which is configured to designate a PID of a packet other than the NIT packet in the electronic program guide information, as a replace packet; an SIT producing unit which is configured to produce first and second SIT packet from the service information in the received transport stream; and a packet extracting and replacing unit which is configured to replace the NIT packet with the first SIT packet and to replace the replace packet designated by the PID designating unit with the SIT packet.