Japan

Digital transition falters
The current number of households converting from
analogue to digital terrestrial TV broadcast capability was 2.5 million short
of the governments interim target for September of 26 million according to
figures released at a recent conference of interested parties.This amounts to 47% of its target to integrate
50 million households by April 2011.
In May 2008 43.7% of households had made the
switch.
Because of the sluggish world economy the government fears that future DTT
penetration targets will be missed and it is expected that to improve the
situation they will work to promote DTT adoption possibly by encouraging
manufacturers to reduce the cost of DTT receivers.
Analogue switch-off is planned to be completed in July 2011.
Source: Yomiuri
Shimbun Online
Item added: 9th December 2008
New SKY Perfect DVB-S2 satellite service for Japan
In October 2008 “SKY PerfecTV/HD” started broadcasting 15 High-Definition channels using DVB-S2 and plans to expand to more than 70 channels in October 2009 and eventually to over 100.
SKY PerfecTV! HD utilizes MPEG-4, H.264 AVC compression as well as DVB-S2 transmission technology, which allows the transmission of even greater numbers of programs in a high-definition format.
Set-top boxes for this service allow subscribers to view both standard and high-definition content, and will also provide many other convenient functions.
Source: SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
Item added: 13th October 2008
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