Patent ID: 8730395

Claim:
An image display equipment, which includes a plurality of types of input terminals to which video signals are input, and displays video information obtained through one of the plurality of types of the input terminals, the one of the plurality of types of the input terminals being set active in accordance with a user's instruction, wherein the image display equipment comprises a history information recording device, which is provided to an image display equipment, for recording, as history information, information about operations that have been executed in the image display equipment up to a present time, the history information recording device comprising a connection terminal to which an external storage medium is connected, wherein the history information is transmitted to and recorded on the external storage medium connected to the connection terminal in response to a given instruction, and wherein the history information recording device records, as the history information for each of the plurality of types of the input terminals, a total display time of the video information obtained through the input terminal, wherein the history information is information that is transmitted from the external storage medium to a display equipment other than the image display equipment and is displayed on that display equipment.