Patent ID: 8891015

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: a receiver comprises a wireless communication device configured to receive video content data from an external device via a wireless network; a first detector configured to detect degradation in communication quality of the wireless network during reception of the video content data; a reproducer configured to reproduce the video content data to generate first video data; a display configured to display an image corresponding to the first video data on a screen of the display; a transmitter configured to transmit image data to an external display device, the image data comprising the first video data; and a processor configured to transmit, when the degradation in communication quality of the wireless network is detected, to the external display device a mode switching request comprising identification information for identifying the video content data to switch an operation mode of the external display device from a first mode in which an image corresponding to the image data is displayed on a screen of the external display device to a second mode in which an image corresponding to second video data is displayed on the screen of the external display device, the second video data being obtained by receiving and reproducing the video content data by resources in the external display device.