TELEVISION DEVICE AND TELEVISION SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a television audience to discriminate an information stream or its part of a television system and to selectively view it by permitting each information type to include a television receiver in which each information type has a segment and a television transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal to a television companion device. SOLUTION: This device includes a television receiver in which each information type has a segment and a television transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal to a television companion device. A television 100 displays contents to a general audience 65 and communicates with plural television companion devices(TCD) 120 by way of communication links 109 and 121. The television 100 has to perform selection for the general audience 65 but a stream 185 for an individual audience 65 can be selected by the television 100 or the TCD 120. When the stream 185 is selected, the stream 185 for the general audience 65 is outputted onto the television 100. The stream 185 selected for the individual audience 65 is transmitted to the TCD 120.