Abstract
Home video recorders have spread over the country. Now people are able to watch TV program in their favorite time utilizing the recording function. In other words home video recorders facilitate 'time-shifted viewing' of TV broadcasts. In addition nowadays people can watch some TV programs on video-sharing sites of the internet, which diversify peoples' watching style of TV programs. This study has done a survey for examining how people conceive home video recorders under such changing environment.
As a result our survey confirms that the groups using video sharing sites tend to record TV programs and then put the programs into removable disk more frequently than the group using the sites less. It also shows that five perception patterns toward TV watching underpinned in the precedent paper are associated with the usage of home video recorders, and that the cohort with keen interest in TV programs is likely to record and playback programs more often other cohorts.
