A content display system is disclosed for offering, excellent multimedia content browsing/viewing environments to handheld device users, from a server of a communication network, by the use of a handheld device and a cooperating computer device cooperated to the handheld device. According to an aspect of the present invention, the content display system and method are adapted so that: (1) a handheld device user selects a target content, which the user wants to display on a cooperating computer device, from contents displayed on the handheld device via a user interface of the handheld device; (2) identification information about the target content is transferred from the handheld device to the cooperating computer device; (3) the cooperating computer device acquires the target content based on the identification information from the server; and (4) the acquisition of the contents by the handheld device, the transfer of the identification information from the handheld device to the cooperating computer device and the acquisition of the target content by the cooperating computer device from the handheld device are performed via different communications networks.