Patent ID: 8701031

Claim:
A content reproducing apparatus for reproducing content, comprising: a processing unit; an input section for accepting, during a reproduction period in which the content is being reproduced, an input of an evaluation of content; a transmitting section for transmitting the evaluation to a server which aggregates, for each content, evaluations supplied from a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses so as to find a first aggregate amount corresponding to a first time in the reproduction period, and which transmits the first aggregate amount to the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses; a receiving section for receiving the first aggregate amount corresponding to the first time from the server; a notifying section for simultaneously notifying, while the content is being reproduced, a user of the first aggregate amount corresponding to the first time and of a second aggregate amount corresponding to a second time in the reproduction period; a reproducing section configured to reproduce only parts of the moving image having an aggregate amount more than a predetermined reference value; and a display output device configured to present a list of broadcast programs sorted according to the evaluation of each of the broadcast programs, wherein the input section finds the evaluation of the content in accordance with the number of times the user pushes a button, the input section is further configured to receive input selecting one of the broadcast programs for reproduction, and the list of broadcast programs includes an indicator representing a trend of the evaluation in each of the broadcast programs.