Display generation device, display generation method, program, and content download system

A display generation device, a display generation method, a program, and a content download system are provided. The display generation device for generating a display screen including one or two or more user-selectable playback control items is provided with a download section for downloading content data from a content server storing the content data, a data amount acquisition section for acquiring a data amount already downloaded and a data amount not yet downloaded by the download section among the content data, a rate acquisition section for acquiring a transmission rate of data from the content server to the display generation device, and a display screen generation section for generating the display screen including the playback control item according to the data amount acquired by the data amount acquisition section and the transmission rate acquired by the rate acquisition section.