Patent ID: 8230473

Claim:
A digital content reproducing apparatus comprising: a storage medium which stores a local digital programming and a local digital content therein, the local digital programming including a list comprising pairs of corresponding timecodes and URLs of remote digital programmings, each of the plurality of URLs corresponding to one of the plurality of timecodes; a network interface which downloads the remote digital programmings according to the list stored in the storage; a decoder which decodes and outputs the local digital content stored in the storage to provide the local digital content to a user; and a controller which, for each of the pairs on the list stored on the storage medium, controls the network interface to download the remote digital programmings from the URL in the pair, and executes the downloaded remote digital programming to be provided to the user when the corresponding timecode in the pair is reached, wherein the executed remote digital programming downloaded by the network interface and the local digital content decoded by the decoder are provided to the user simultaneously according to the timecode of the pair.