Patent ID: 8229345

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a user interface for outputting a Packet ID (PID) value corresponding to a broadcasting channel selected by a user; a database having PID values, data bit-rates, and Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) channel information; a PID detection unit for receiving the PID value corresponding to the broadcasting channel selected by the user, detecting a presently received CDM channel and PID values related to the presently received CDM channel, arranging the PID values and related information for the presently received CDM channel on a table, providing the table to the demultiplexer and the switching device, determining whether the PID value corresponding to the broadcasting channel selected by the user is one of the PID values related to the presently received CDM channel; a demultiplexer for separating a multichannel transport stream of the presently received CDM channel into a plurality of broadcasting channel data based on the PID values in the table and outputting the plurality of broadcasting channel data; a buffer unit, including a plurality of buffers having differently fixed capacities that correspond to data bit rates; a switching device for selecting one of the plurality of buffers according to a PID value, wherein a buffer having broadcasting channel data with the PID value corresponding to the broadcasting channel selected by the user is selected when the PID value corresponding to the broadcasting channel selected by the user is one of the PID values related to the presently received CDM channel; wherein the demultiplexer allocates each of the plurality of broadcasting channel data to a respective one of the plurality of buffers having differently fixed capacities according to a data bit rate of respective broadcasting channel data and receives a transport stream of a new CDM channel when the PID value corresponding to the broadcasting channel selected by the user is not one of the PID values related to the presently received CDM channel.