Toshiba has developed a TV program recommendation system as embedded software for home audio visual products such as personal video recorders.
This system is an application of a probabilistic reasoning, which can determine a user's preferences from the history of operations performed on personal video recorders. After the recorder has acquired sufficient user preferences, the user may find TV programs automatically recorded that they are likely to enjoy, just by following their recording habits.
Moreover, this system can cooperate with Toshiba's internet TV program recommendation service, which is based on a collaborative filtering algorithm. Users of a Toshiba recorder connected to the Internet service might find potentially enjoyable TV programs, which they do not normally watch, but that are often recorded by users with interests or favorites similar to their own. Both the embedded recommendation function and the Internet service function will be available for models in Japan.
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