Digital TV News: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

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

DTT penetration reaches 69.5% in Japan
Nov 7, 2009 – Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has estimated that 69.5 percent of Japanese families had acquired TVs or tuners to receive terrestrial digital broadcasting signals as of the end of September, up 8.8 points from March.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Market Research, Terrestrial

IPTV Forum Japan's Activities for CEATEC: Connecting Your TV to the Net
Oct 2, 2009 – The IPTV Forum Japan will present a special booth at CEATEC JAPAN 2009. The theme for the booth's display is Connecting Your TV to the Net, and it will focus on the nature of IPTV and how to connect household televisions to broadband networks.
News categories: IPTV Forum Japan, Japan, Smart TV, Streaming

Japan consults on extra spectrum for mobile TV
Jul 15, 2009 – Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has opened a consultation on whether to allocate additional spectrum to 1-seg mobile TV broadcasting after analogue switch off in 2011.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, Mobile, Regulation

NEC Electronics Introduces System-on-Chip for Tuners That Enable Viewing of Digital Terrestrial Broadcasts on Analog Televisions
Dec 12, 2008 – NEC (Tokyo: 6723) has introduced the EMMATM2TS system-on-chip (SoC) for tuners that enable digital terrestrial broadcasts to be viewed on current analog televisions. The new product is compliant with the Japan's 'simplified DTT tuner' specifications.
News categories: NEC Electronics, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Japan - Digital TV transition behind pace
Dec 2, 2008 – The number of Japanese households that have converted from analogue to digital terrestrial TV reception stands at 23.5 million, or 2.5 million short of the government's target for September of 26 million.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Dpa, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Market Research, Terrestrial

Japan - Ministry budgets ¥220 billion for digital TV transition in 2011
Jul 20, 2008 – The communications ministry is bracing for the nationwide switch to digital terrestrial TV broadcasts over the next three years by spending ¥220 billion on a transition program.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Establishes IPTV Special Committee
Mar 6, 2008 – In January 2008, the ITU-T established its IPTV Global Standard Initiative. In response to this, MIC decided to establish a new IPTV special committee to enhance the Telecommunications Council review structure for IPTV global standardization.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, ITU-T, Content Distribution, IPTV, Japan, Middleware