A screen in which icons of a plurality of information items are arranged is displayed as a information selecting screen to display information selected from the screen by the user.In the operation, icons of information items of different kinds are horizontally displayed, and a degree of details of the information is changed in the vertical direction and a degree of recommendation of the information to the user is changed in a direction of depth.The user can easily select desired information from a large amount of various contents supplied and the information can be optimally displayed for the user.