Patent ID: 7844986

Claim:
A receiver apparatus for a digital signal comprising: a receiver which receives a plurality of programs with discrimination information and guide information regarding said plurality of programs, wherein said plurality of programs are time-division multiplexed into a plurality of data packets and said guide information indicates the identification information of packets of the plurality of programs and the contents of said plurality of programs; a selector which selects a program from said plurality of programs received by said receiver based on the discrimination information; a data former which forms guide information regarding the selected program from the received guide information regarding said plurality of programs, the formed guide information indicating the identification information of packets of the selected program and the contents of the selected program, and forms a program signal by re-multiplexing the selected program and the formed guide information regarding only the selected program into plurality of packets form, and by adding a time stamp indicating the time of packet arrival as header information to each packet; and an output device which outputs the formed program signal.