Abstract: Disclosed is an interphone system that uses a home-use television broadcast receiving apparatus capable of receiving instructions for dealing with a visitor. According to the invention, a television includes a sending/receiving section for sending and receiving signals to and from a door phone apparatus, a storage section in which response information is stored as text data, and an audio synthesis processor which converts text data into an audio signal. An audio signal based on response information (e.g., “Please come in”) selected with the television is sent to the door phone apparatus and outputted from a door phone slave unit installed at the entrance of a house. Thus, it becomes possible to deal with a visitor by operating the television.

Abstract: To provide an electronic device with a built-in disk device including a disk device and disk device control substrate arranged side by side capable of reducing problems caused when a flexible flat cable connected to a pickup section which is a movable section touches other members inside the device and reducing a load applied to a connection of the flexible flat cable. In an FFC 23 provided with a slack portion 23a to absorb the moving distance of a pickup section 11a, the slack portion 23a is provided with a bending section 23b and bending section 23c bent in mutually opposite curving directions and the bending section 23b is stopped by an L-figured stopper 40 to thereby prevent a connection 12a from being affected by sliding of the pickup section 11a (load caused by the movement of the FFC near the connection).