The present invention discloses a method for implementing a digital television technology, including performing, by a wireless fidelity hot spot apparatus, decryption and parsing on a received digital television data stream, obtaining an audio stream, a video stream, and a system stream, performing packing on the obtained audio stream, video stream, and system stream according to a predetermined format, sending the packed audio stream, video stream, and system stream to a terminal by using a wireless fidelity technology, and performing, by the terminal, decoding and playback on the packed audio stream, video stream, and system stream received from the wireless fidelity hot spot apparatus. The present invention also discloses a wireless fidelity hot spot apparatus. By applying the method and the apparatus according to the present invention, implementation complexity of a digital television technology is decreased.