Patent ID: 8826333

Claim:
A video display device for displaying a video of a program which is selected using a remote control device which does not have a channel selection button corresponding to each channel, comprising: a display portion for displaying the video of the program; an operation detection portion for detecting a rotational operation of a jog dial provided in the remote control device; and a control portion for causing the display portion to display a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs while causing the display portion to display the video of the program when the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion while the video of the program is displayed on a full screen of the display portion, wherein the control portion causes the display portion to display a video of a program which is selected using the program list by the rotational operation of the jog dial, and a program item included in the program list is a program item of some of programs for which the video is receivable, the control portion causes the display portion to display a program search figure in which the some of programs and programs other than the some of programs are associated in different positions, and causes the display portion to display, when a program is searched using the program search figure, a program list including the program which is searched.