Patent ID: 8073310

Claim:
A receiving apparatus comprising: outputting means for receiving signal information, which constitutes a transport stream that is multiplexed with at least video information by a transport packet, transmitted through a predetermined transmission line, and for outputting video information, which is taken out from said signal information as more than one signal format out of a plurality of signal formats being different from each other; extracting means for extracting a flag in one bit, which is previously multiplexed with signal information that is received from said predetermined transmission line, and directly and selectively designates an output signal format of said video information as an analog output signal format in said outputting means whether or not resolution of said video signal is limited to less than a predetermined resolution that is lower than original resolution of said video information, from said signal information received from said predetermined transmission line; and controlling means for controlling an output signal format of said video information in said outputting means so as to be an output signal format that is designated by said flag extracted by said extracting means.