Patent ID: 6961511

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: generating means for receiving a digital broadcast and generating a data stream from a digital broadcast signal having a desired modulation frequency; input means for inputting a data stream based on a digital broadcast from an external digital broadcast receiving apparatus; playback means for playing back a content of a channel contained in one of the data streams obtained by said generating means and input means; and storage means for storing a content of a channel contained in the data stream other than the data stream to be played back by said playback means in a data storage medium, wherein said input means comprises: acquisition means for acquiring a channel information indicative of a channel that can be received by the external digital broadcast receiving apparatus from the external digital broadcast receiving apparatus, and determination means for determining on the basis of the channel information acquired by said acquisition means whether the external digital broadcast receiving apparatus can receive a digital broadcast signal containing a desired channel, and inputs the data stream from the external digital broadcast receiving apparatus that is determined by said determination means as an apparatus capable of receiving the desired channel.