Cable program receiver and method of processing service information for the same

A method of processing service information for a cable broadcast receiver, the method comprising:

• pre-storing a channel list in a memory, the channel list being generated based on a previous service information (SI) table containing a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code;
• receiving an out-of-band (OOB) signal and parsing a new service (SI) table from the OOB signal, the new table containing a second CRC code;
• and
• updating the pre-stored channel list based on the new SI table when there is a difference between the first and second CRC codes.

A cable broadcast receiver comprising:

• a memory for pre-storing a channel list generated based on a group of previous service information (SI) tables, each previous SI table containing a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code;
• a point-of-deployment (POD) module for receiving an out-of-band (OOB) signal and parsing a group of new SI tables from the OOB signal, each new SI table containing a CRC code;
• and
• a controller for receiving the group of new SI tables from the POD module, wherein the controller updates the pre-stored channel list based on the group of new SI tables when there is a difference between at least one of the CRC code included in the new SI tables and a corresponding CRC code included in the previous SI tables.

A method of processing service information for a cable broadcast receiver, the method comprising:

• pre-storing a channel list in a memory, the channel list being generated based on a group of previous service information (SI) tables, each previous SI table containing a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code;
• receiving an out-of-band (OOB) signal and parsing a group of new SI tables from the OOB signal, each new SI table containing a CRC code;
• and
• updating the pre-stored channel list based on the group of new SI tables when there is a difference between at least one of the CRC code included in the new SI tables and a corresponding CRC code included in the previous SI tables.