Japan launches digital TV for cell phones
MIL/Agencies, Apr 3, 2006.
Tokyo, Japan - Apr 1. Tokyo, Japan - Apr 1. After several months' tests, Digital TV broadcasts for mobile phones equipped with special receivers have entered Japan's major urban areas on Saturday.
The exact figure of how many phones could have been sold is not yet known, nor any store disclosed it. It shows that the welcome of this new product is not as hot as thought to be.
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This is not the first mobile with this technology, there are certain countries like South Korea, U.K. which Equipped with special receivers,
The report says that it is hard to say how the eager consumers have welcomed these new phones had similar equipment with the same type of service offered to their customers, even though different technologies are applied.
There is a facility in these mobile phones that their users can tap into digital broadcast in some parts of the United States.
But the new service in Japan is free. It is likely to reach the broadest market in due course. Their technology uses broadcasting airwaves, rather than an Internet connection, to relay streaming video.
As per their official information, Japan's 90 million mobile phone users already play video games, download music files, exchange e-mail, read news, trade stocks, store digital photos and surf the Web all on tiny handset screens half the size of a business card.
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