DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING INFORMATION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time required for retrieving index information by previously storing taste information showing the taste of a user, and retrieving the index information suited to the taste out of plural kinds of index information. SOLUTION: When the program taste information of a viewer is inputted through a remote commander to an IRD 5, a CPU 11 stores that program taste information in a flash memory 31. In such a state, when it is detected that EPG data S16 stored in a RAM 13 are updated, on the basis of the program taste information stored in the memory 31, the CPU 11 retrieves the program suited to the taste of the viewer out of a lot of programs contained in the data S16 and stores the retrieved result in the RAM 13 as EPG retrieval data. When the viewer performs the display operation of a program table by using the remote commander, the CPU 11 displays the table of programs suited to the taste of the viewer on the display screen of a monitor on the basis of the EPG data stored in the RAM 13.