Patent ID: 8675134

Claim:
A transmission apparatus, comprising: a first channel unit capable of transmitting, out of a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents, first video data constituted of a baseband to an external apparatus via a transmission channel using a differential signal; a second channel unit capable of transmitting, out of the plurality of pieces of video data, second video data encoded by a predetermined codec to the external apparatus via the transmission channel; a communication unit that is capable of communicating with the external apparatus via two lines making up a differential pair included in the transmission channel and notifies the external apparatus of a connection status between the transmission apparatus and the external apparatus based on a DC bias potential of at least one of the two lines; and a control means for controlling a transmission of the first video data and the second video data by the first channel unit and the second channel unit, wherein transmission of the first video signal and transmission of the second video signal are performed at the same time.