Bay communications (Baycom) Inc., a CATV station in the Kasai area, Japan, announced on May 21 that they will convert the digital terrestrial television broadcasting to the existing analog format and relay it to the subscribers until March 31, 2015.
Japan's CATV stations have been urged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) to commit to the digital-analog conversion for some years even after July 24, 2011, or the day when the complete transition from analog to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting will be done.
Therefore, Baycom will continue to relay analog and digital terrestrial television broadcasting simultaneously until March 31, 2015.
Baycom covers some areas in Osaka City and Amagasaki, Nishinomiya, and Itami City in Hyogo Prefecture now.
Sun May 23, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (64) -- CATV keeps on going with analog TV? [4]
Wed May 19, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (64) -- TV on hikari keeps analog
K Cable Television Corporation Inc. and K-Opticom Corp. announced on May 14 that they will convert the digital terrestrial television broadcasting to the existing analog format and relay it to the subscribers from July 24, 2011 through March 31, 2015.
Therefore, they will continue to relay analog and digital terrestrial television broadcasting simultaneously on their K-CAT eo Hikari TV service until March 31, 2015.
Sat April 24, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (63) -- CATV keeps on going with analog TV? [3]
Japan Cablenet (JCN) Ltd., KDDI Corp.'s affiliate, announced Wednesday that it will convert the digital terrestrial television broadcasting to the existing analog format and relay it to the subscribers from July 24, 2011 through March 31, 2015.
Therefore, JCN will continue to relay analog and digital terrestrial television broadcasting simultaneously until March 31, 2015.
JCN is a CATV MSO (multiple system operator), which now retains 18 CATV stations in some areas in Japan such as Kanto.
Fri April 16, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (62) -- Lending of chideji antenna
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and the Association for Promotion of Digital Broadcasting (Dpa) announced Tuesday that the MIC's support center for TV viewers (Dejisapo) which is operated by the Dpa will begin to lend out an antenna kit dedicated to chideji (terrestrial digital TV broadcasting) reception around Japan.
The kit will allow each household to check whether it can receive chideji airwaves or not in practice.
Wed April 14, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (61) -- CATV keeps on going with analog TV? [2]
Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (J:COM), Japan's CATV MSO (multiple system operator) giant, announced Monday that it will convert the digital terrestrial television broadcasting to the existing analog format and relay it to the subscribers from July 24, 2011 through March 31, 2015.
Japan's CATV stations have been urged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) to commit to the digital-analog conversion for some years even after July 24, 2011, or the day when the complete transition from analog to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting will be done.
Therefore, J:COM will continue to relay analog and digital terrestrial television broadcasting simultaneously until March 31, 2015.
Sat March 13, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (60) -- Less than 500 days to Chideji
Are you now ready for chideji (terrestrial digital TV broadcasting) in Japan?
The countdown counter today indicates “498 days” to the chideji launch, or the complete transition from analog to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting.
Sat March 06, 2010
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (59) -- Seventy million chideji receivers
NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai: Japan Broadcasting Corp.) announced on Thursday that the number of chideji (terrestrial digital broadcasting) receivers in Japan's filed had topped 70 million.
The receivers include chideji TV set, external tuner, recorder with built-in tuner, STB for CATV, and PC with built-in tuner.
