Patent ID: 7103263

Claim:
A television signal receiver comprising: (a) a receiver section for receiving digital television signals; (b) a digital interface for receiving digital television signals reproduced and transmitted from an external storage device; and (c) an on-screen display processor for generating on-screen displays from the digital television signals received from the receiver section and from the external storage device, the on-screen display processor being adapted to generate a received program explanation screen including at least one of title of program, start/end time and program selection option by the viewer for the currently received program, a received contents display screen including a description of the contents of the currently received program, a reproduced program explanation screen including at least one of title of program, start/end time and program selection option by the viewer for a program reproduced by the external storage device, and a reproduced contents display screen including a description of the contents of the program reproduced by the external storage device, the received program explanation screen and the received contents display screen being superimposed on the television program being received by the receiver, and the reproduced program explanation screen and the reproduced contents display screen being superimposed on the television program being reproduced and transmitted by the external storage device, and wherein the reproduced program explanation screen and the reproduced contents display screen each include at least one additional indicia element indicating that the program being viewed is being reproduced from the external storage device as opposed to a program currently being received from the broadcast television programming.