Patent ID: 7987481

Claim:
A receiving apparatus comprising: a first tuner unit and a second tuner unit, each of which is configured to receive program contents delivered with a television broadcast signal; a display control unit configured to control display of video of the program contents by executing a first display mode in which either video of a program content received by the first tuner unit or video of a program content received by the second tuner unit is displayed on a screen, and a second display mode in which both video of the program content received by the first tuner unit and video of the program content received by the second tuner unit are displayed on a same screen; and a reservation setting unit configured to set a viewing reservation for viewing video of a program content which is scheduled to be delivered with a television broadcast signal on a screen of an electronic program guide which is composed of a broadcast time axis and a channel axis, in response to a user operation, and configured to select and set, on the screen of the electronic program guide, a display mode of the program content from among the first display mode and the second display mode by a user operation when the user sets the viewing reservation for the video of the program content, wherein the user is capable of selecting and setting a display position of the program content and a display layout from among a picture-in-picture display layout and a picture-out-picture display layout in the second display mode, when setting the viewing reservation for the video of the program content via the reservation setting unit, and wherein the display control unit displays, by using pull-down menu, a display layout for the first display mode and a plurality of display layouts for the second display mode on the screen of the electronic program guide so that the user can make a selection from among the display layouts of the pull-down menu, and with a picture-in-picture display layout and a picture-out-picture display layout in the second display mode, the display control unit displays a region corresponding to the display position of the program content to be set for viewing reservation and other regions, in different colors.