Patent ID: 8413207

Claim:
A remote control terminal which can communicate with an information providing apparatus which provides electronic content guide information related to a program and an information acquiring apparatus which acquires and displays video information of the program and the electronic content guide information, and which can remote-control the information acquiring apparatus, comprising: a program identification information acquiring unit which acquires program identification information to designate a program watched by using the information acquiring apparatus; a channel selection control unit which remote-controls a channel selecting process by the information acquiring apparatus based on the acquired program identification information; a scenario information acquiring unit which acquires scenario information included in the electronic content guide information related a program to be watched based on the acquired program identification information; a display unit which displays the scenario information related to the program to be watched; and a display control unit which controls the display unit such that a display state of the scenario information related to the program to be watched is changed depending on a display state of the scenario information in the information acquiring apparatus based on predetermined setting information or predetermined operation information, wherein when a display of the scenario information is stopped in the information acquiring apparatus, the display control unit controls the display unit to display the scenario information the display of which is stopped, wherein when the program to be watched is liked by each of a plurality of users based on preset user preferences associated with a respective display control unit, then the respective display control unit displays scenario information related to the program to be watched and matched with the respective user's, and wherein when the program to be watched is not liked by a particular one of the plurality of users based on the particular user's preferences associated with the particular user's display control unit, then the particular user's display control unit displays scenario information related to a different program from the program to be watched.