Patent ID: 7436459

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast, the digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a content specifying section that specifies content of the received digital broadcast; a freeze determining section that determines whether or not a freeze process should be initiated by comparing error information contained in the received digital broadcast with a first threshold level, changes the first threshold level on a basis of the content specified by the content specifying section, and determines whether or not the freeze process being performed should be terminated on a basis of a receiving status of the digital broadcast; and a display control section that initiates the freeze process when the freeze determining section concludes that the freeze process should be initiated and terminates the freeze process being performed when the freeze determining section concludes that the freeze process being performed should be terminated; wherein the freeze process includes displaying a freeze notification on a screen while changing the freeze notification so that a user recognizes the change of the freeze notification.