Viewers Evaluation of Storage-Based Content Distribution Service

Analog broadcast was terminated in July, 2011. Storage-based content distribution service is in the spotlight before the boom in digital broadcasting. We carried out the research, " Development of satellite based on-demand content distribution systems and verification of effectiveness" which was sponsored by the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA). In this paper, the storage-based content distribution service is evaluated from three viewpoints, taste, affinity and selection. As the results of the evaluation, the selection of contents and viewing time is almost as same as one of the existing broadcasting. It was found that the operability of remote controller were important for the storage-based content distribution service. In addition, it was found that the restriction of viewer by a chip card was strongly needed.