Patent ID: 8875214

Claim:
A television which can be connected to a information terminal and which comprises: an information terminal data transmission and reception unit arranged to perform transmission and reception of data with the information terminal; a storage medium data reception unit arranged to receive data from a storage medium; a display unit arranged to display video based on a video signal received from the information terminal by the information terminal data transmission and reception unit; a speaker which outputs audio based on an audio signal received from the information terminal by the information terminal data transmission and reception unit; a determination unit housed within the television and arranged to determine whether or not the data of multimedia files stored on the storage medium is decodable with a decoder housed within the information terminal; a selection controller housed within the television and arranged to select a multimedia file which will become an object of reproduction from among the multimedia files storing data which the determination unit has determined to be decodable by the decoder of the information terminal; a multimedia file transmission and reception control unit arranged and programmed to receive the data of the multimedia file selected by the user with the use of the selection controller from the storage medium by using the storage medium data reception unit and to transmit the data of the received multimedia file and a decoding request command to request the decoding of the data of the multimedia file to the information terminal by using the information terminal data transmission and reception unit; and a signal reception control unit arranged and programmed to receive a video signal and/or an audio signal obtained as a result of the decoder of the information terminal decoding the data of the multimedia file from the information terminal by using the information terminal data transmission and reception unit; wherein the television uses the selection controller to request that the information terminal use the decoder to decode the data of multimedia files stored on the storage medium which the determination unit has determined to be decodable by the decoder of the information terminal.