Patent ID: 8479249

Claim:
A display apparatus for receiving and displaying content with which genre information is associated, the genre information indicating a type of the content, comprising: a basic picture quality information receiving section configured to associate, with a single piece of said genre information, a plurality of candidates for picture quality information indicating picture quality of a display of the content with which the genre information is associated, and receive an entry, by a user, of basic picture quality information indicating which one of the plurality of candidates for the picture quality information the display of the content is based on; a high-level picture quality correction information creating section configured to receive an entry, by the user, of picture quality correction information for, by using picture quality based on the basic picture quality information as a benchmark, further correcting the picture quality, and create, in accordance with the basic picture quality information and the picture quality correction information, high-level picture quality correction information for correcting the picture quality; and a picture processing section configured to correct the picture quality in accordance with the high-level picture quality correction information, and which creates a picture to be displayed by a display section included in the display apparatus, wherein when the genre information associated with the content currently displayed by the display section and the genre information to be corrected in accordance with the picture quality correction information when the high-level picture quality correction information creating section is in such a state as to receive the picture quality correction information are different from each other, the picture processing section is configured to cause the display section to display a caption explaining that these pieces of said genre information are different from each other.