Japan Digital TV News

J:COM ends 2009 with 2,348,400 digital cable subscribers
Jan 19, 2010 – Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced that the total subscribing households as of December 31, 2009 served by J:COM's 23 consolidated franchises reached 3.27 million, up 107,400 or 3.4% since December 31, 2008.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Japan, Subscribers

Sony Japan To Introduce Digital Terrestrial Tuner For PlayStation®3
Jan 14, 2010 – Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ) has announced that it will introduce 'torne™' for PlayStation®3 (PS3®), a set of digital terrestrial tuner and application in Blu-ray™ Disc (BD) for viewing and recording digital terrestrial broadcasting.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, Digital TV, Gaming, ISDB-T, Japan, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Broadcom Announces DTT Converter Box Solution for Japan's Digital TV Transition
Jan 7, 2010 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced highly integrated digital terrestrial converter box SoCs, featuring an ISDB-T tuner, for Japan's upcoming transition to digital TV broadcast transmission.
News categories: Broadcom, FUJISOFT, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

TV Makers Looking to New Designs and Features to Break out of Commodity Trap
Dec 30, 2009 – According to DisplaySearch, TV manufacturers are developing a wide variety of design features to differentiate products and slow price declines. For example, in 2010, shipments of sets with MPEG-4 decoders will surpass those with MPEG-2.
News categories: DisplaySearch, ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, Europe, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Metaverse, North America, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

ISDB-Tmm Adopted for Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting in Japan
Dec 24, 2009 – ISDB-Tmm has been adopted as one of the standards for nationwide mobile multimedia broadcasting in Japan. Broadcasting using this standard is aimed at viewers across the country, and is scheduled to start after July 24, 2011.
News categories: ISDB-T Multimedia Forum, Japan, Mobile, Regulation

Ofcom releases International Communications Market report
Dec 17, 2009 – Ofcom's International Communications Market data provides a snapshot of the communications market in twelve major economies and the four fast growing economies of Brazil, India, Russia and China in the five years to 2008.
News categories: Ofcom, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Asia-Pac IPTV Subs to Hit 9.4 Million This Year
Nov 25, 2009 – According to Frost & Sullivan, the Asia-Pacific IPTV subscriber base is expected to grow by 51 percent in 2009 to close at 9.4 million users, making the region the second largest IPTV market in the world by the end of this year.
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Australia, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Subscribers, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Global TV Shipment Growth Recovered in Q3
Nov 19, 2009 – Global TV shipments showed a spark of recovery in Q3'09 amid an easing global economic recession, reports DisplaySearch. Total unit volume increased on a year-over-year (Y/Y) basis for the first time since Q3'08, rising 1% to 54.9 million units.
News categories: DisplaySearch, Canada, China, Digital TV, Japan, Market Research, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

MediaFLO Recognized by Japan as an Official Technology for Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting
Nov 12, 2009 – Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has announced that Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has recognized MediaFLO™ as one of two official technologies for nationwide mobile multimedia broadcasting services in Japan.
News categories: Qualcomm, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile, Regulation, Smart TV