Strategy for Promotion of HDTV Service and for Implementation of Digital Broadcasting in Japan
In 1984 satellite broadcasting started in Japan for SDTV service and the number of home receivers has reached 10 million sets by March 1996. Using one of the BS channels, HDTV service started in 1994 after 8 year experiment and the number of receivers that can receive HDTV programs now exceeds 550 thousands. Among these, 210 thousands are HDTV receivers with full decoding capabilities and the rest are widescreen TV sets with MUSEMTSC converter.
- Published
- 1996-10
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/M001272
- ISBN
- 978-1-61482-947-8
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