• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.46
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• pp.485-510
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• 2009

Since the inception of Internet Protocol TV's real-time service on January, 2009, technological challenges and lack of content diversity of IPTV have been cited as problem areas. While past researches focused on IPTV's technological, industrial and policy facets, this research surveyed the viewers' viewing and usage patterns, and the level of service satisfaction among actual audiences of MegaTV, SKBroadband, and LGTV since January. The results show that subscription fee and content types were the two dominant determinants in audience's choice of a particular IPTV company. The high users of IPTV were on average aged between 30-39, and women tended to be heavier users than men. The surveyed audience also regarded IPTV to be more similar to the Internet than any other medium such as Cable TV and Satellite TV. IPTV audience cited 'lifestyle service' and 'additional service' offerings to be highly relevant to their usage and satisfaction; interactive service and educational service also showed high correlation to usage and satisfaction. The most watched contents on IPTV were domestic TV series, followed by foreign movies and variety shows. 'Fees for additional features,' 'lack of real-time terrestrial TV service', and 'lack of content variety' were the major areas of concern for IPTV viewers. They answered that the monthly fee was the most important factor in the selection of IPTV. Use of pay-per-view contents and add-on interactive service fees were also seen as problematic. With regards to future usage, the IPTV audience revealed that they were very sensitive and reluctant to pay for additional services. While existing researches concentrated on IPTV's technological problems and lack of content diversity, this study illuminated the more pragmatical side of the viewers, namely, the importance of price in audience's selection of an IPTV service provider. From these results, it is recommended that, before doing anything else, the service providers try to meet the audience's expected price points in order to garner the full potential of IPTV and the attendant mass audience.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.219-244
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• 2010

The charged broadcasting market has been becoming very competitive to get the limited media consumers since IPTV was introduced to the market. This research analyzed the competition among interactive broadcasting media. We employed the niche theory for comparing IPTV with Cable TV and Satellite TV, which are two major existing broadcasting media. For employing the niche theory, we focused on the gratification-opportunity features of the media caused by the consumers' gratification sought: ease of use, interactivity, variety of content, and economic feasibility. The results showed the extent to which media are utilized, the extent to which each pair of media are perceived as similar, and the competitive superiority between each pair of media on each dimensions. Finally, we examined the competition structure of IPTV and other broadcasting media, and proposed the competitive strategy for IPTV to get an advantages.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.205-217
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• 2010

IPTV Service was launched with great expectation, but it is having difficulty due to the low number of subscribers and contents. In addition, the study of IPTV is still in its infancy and most of previous studies are only focused how IPTV is adopted and spread. In this study, we defined that resistance is the users not tend to accept IPTV service, and analyzed factors affecting resistance which are Innovative characteristics, User characteristics, Service characteristics and proposed implications for IPTV service vitalization. The results that relative advantage, complexity, attitude of an existing product, contents, cost, innovativeness have significant effects on resistance to IPTV.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.267-276
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of the interactive message expression and consumer characteristic insert IPTV advertising. The results of this study were follow: Firstly, Attention and attitude of interactive message advertising appeared than general TV advertising so that it was high. Second, In case of interactive message advertising, It appeared efficiently than the advertising without the advertisement detail information which is putting the good detail information. Third, In interactive message expression of IPTV advertising, Floating expression strategy appeared efficiently most. Lastly, Adoption of consumer characteristic was revealed that we had an influence on the knowledge level and the information search intention about IPTV. We present theoretical basis which to present interactive message to IPTV supplier is efficient, and the plan which floating expression can make the click intention of the advertising.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.237-244
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• 2018

This paper deals with the viewer's recognition of diversity on digital media services. For this reason, the researcher focused on the IPTV user, how the perception of the diversity of the digital media service affected the user's satisfaction. The results are as follows. First, digital media service user recognized that supply side diversity of media channel and VOD affect recognition of accessibility (easy of use) and perceived playfulness. Second user recognized that variety of performers and actors affect recognition of accessibility and perceived playfulness. Moreover, it was found that recognition of accessibility, actor's diversity, perceived playfulness affect use's recognition for media player's contribution of diversity, and media satisfaction. As in this paper, the researcher expects that this kind of methodology for confirming of user's recognition of diversity will contribute to preparing a future media policy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.95-103
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• 2008

Hana TV and Mega TV have been growing rapidly with IP-VOD service. The number of subscribers of both of them were 1.4 million in April 2008. Additionally, the change of viewing patterns of IPTV subscribers was predicted. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to see how the subscribers use IP-VOD service practically. For this research, the frequency, the time and the duration of connection by genre have been analyzed on the March of 2007 and 2008. According to the result, there was a significant change quantitatively: within a year, not only the number of subscribers has doubled, but also the frequency of monthly connection has been increased 15 times. In addition, the duration of viewing per person has quadrupled. Regarding to the contents, the subscribers still prefer to watch free TV programs. However, the viewers have their own way of consuming TV programs. It has been proved that IPTV is a complementary media of free TV with a strong possibility to change the viewing patterns in the near future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.153-167
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• 2015

This paper empirically analyzes specific characteristics of VOD users and their practical viewing patterns, using socio-demographic data of the current IPTV subscribers in combination with actual data of genre usage and payment. The findings revealed active viewing patterns of male, the unemployed, high earners and early adopters. In terms of preferences, households with large numbers of women prefer time shift contents, whereas households composed of more men or preschoolers prefer non-time shift contents. Likewise, the households that have more women or higher income had relatively a lot of experiences of purchasing time shift contents on one hand, but the households characterized by the larger numbers of family members or unemployed householder or young householder showed much willingness to pay premium contents on the other hand. Given the utilization of correct database, the findings offer useful information conducive to service promotion and marketing strategies to maximize VOD use in the practical dimension.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.49-57
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• 2010

In the near future IPTV services will be emerged the various types through Internet, but IMS based IPTV service is one of the very attractive IPTV services. This paper describes the interconnecting architectures of Web based IPTV contents provider to IMS(IP Multimedia System) network and describes the three difference architectures as method to find its IP address. One is the architecture using DNS or HSS to find IP address of Web based IPTV contents provider and connecting gateway function to I-CSCF in IMS. The other is the architecture connecting gateway AS to ISC interface of S-CSCF in IMS. This paper describes the characteristics of traffic generating due to interconnect the Web contents provider, and the traffic model of each architectures. The proposed each architecture is emulated the session establishment delay characteristics in CoD service of IPTV by the simulation. This paper shows that the architecture connecting gateway AS to ISC interface of S-CSCF is the excellent method compare to other two methods in view of the session establishment delay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.221-222
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• 2014

병원이 가깝지 못해서 혹은 사정이 넉넉하지 못해서, 혹은 병원에 갈 상황이 되지 못해서 병원에 가지 못하는 많은 사람들을 위해서는 보다, 환자의 입장에서 편리한 방법으로 진료를 하거나, 혹은 자가 치료, 자가 진단을 할 수 있는 교육이 필요하다. 그와 같은 원격의료를 하기 위해서는 의료가 실시 되는 기기의 수용의도가 중요하다고 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 원격의료를 위한 사용자(환자) 수용의도를 높이기 위해 요인관계를 분석하기 위하여 실시하였다. 총 299명에 설문에 참여하였으며, 15세~20세: 58명, 30대:86명, 40대:96명, 50대:59명이 참석하였으며 기술수용모델을 적용하였다. 연구는 원격의료에 사용되어지는 것이 가능한 양방향서비스기기 -IPTV, PC, 스마트폰(패드포함)-을 대상으로 진행되었으며, 연령 및 성별에 따라 사용의도가 크게 차이가 남을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 매체자체에 대한 사용의도가 원격의료 수용의도에 큰 영향을 줌을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.181-191
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• 2010

The number of subscribers of Broad & TV, Qook TV and My LG TV has been growing rapidly. It has been achieved at 1.7 million on August 2009. This study will focus on the viewing pattern of IP-VOD subscribers. For this research, we have interviewed 34 VOD users. According to the analyse, the VOD users prefer to watch free TV's programs, particularly variety programs, during 2 or 3 hours per view and 2 or 3 times a week. They use in general VOD service alone unlike the traditional TV viewers. Furthermore, There were single viewers who have used more than 8 hours continuously on weekend.