To provide an information processing terminal and a contents acquisition system capable of selecting peripheral equipments corresponding to contents.

An Internet server 202 is connected to the Internet 201 and a portable terminal 206 acquires the contents through a WAP gateway 205. The contents can be acquired similarly from a WAP server 204 connected to a WAP network 203 as well. In order to reproduce video images and sound, etc., stored in files for constituting the contents, an identifier for indicating the characteristics of the files is incorporated in the contents. The portable terminal 206 registers the peripheral equipment corresponding to the identifiers, selects the optimum peripheral equipment corresponding to extracted identifiers and transmits the file of the contents to them to perform reproduction. It is possible that a server for performing service for selecting the optimum peripheral equipment is present on a network, selects those pieces of the equipment and presents recommended equipments.