To solve the problem of requiring communication between a client and a server in order for a user to obtain link information linked with digital contents in a conventional system for distributing and receiving digital contents.

This system for distributing and receiving digital contents has a distribution device for distributing digital contents, and a receiving device for receiving digital contents through a digital line. The distribution device prepares an information frame distributed synchronously with the frame of digital contents. The information frame is stored with additional information corresponding to the digital contents, and a tag different according to the sort of additional information is attached to the additional information stored in the information frame. The receiving device refers to the information frame received with the frame of digital contents and selects whether or not to output the additional information on the basis of the sort of the tag of the additional information stored in the information frame.