The present invention provides a method and apparatus to browse the Web
without using a web browser. The application server in a transmitting
unit converts a web page transmitted from the Internet into video data
and provides links to the video data on the basis of the links provided
to the web page. In the video server of the transmitting unit, the video
data transmitted from the server is compressed by the MPEG2 encoders, and
sent with information about the links provided to the video data. A
`Set-Top Box`, of the receiving terminal outputs the received video data
to a display, and establishes an association between the links provided
to the video data and a position of a cursor displayed on the screen of
the display.