Although Japan has had
HDTV for for a decade or so, their actual digital television transition isn't until July 24, 2011. Seems hard to believe?!?
The main cause for the slow transition has been due to not establishing rules for its
DTV transition. Some reports have said that Japan would study other country's and their move to digital tv before making standards for their own transition.
Here's an clip from
Wiki on it:
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In 1969, the Japanese state broadcaster NHK first developed consumer high-definition television with a 5:3 aspect ratio, a slightly wider screen format than the usual 4:3 standard.[3] However, the system was not launched publicly until late in the 1990s.
In 1981, the first HDTV demonstration in the United States was held. It had the same 5:3 aspect ratio as the Japanese system.[4] Upon visiting a demonstration of the Japanese Multiple sub-nyquist sampling Encoding system (MUSE) HDTV system in Washington, US-President Ronald Reagan was most impressed and officially declared it "a matter of national interest" to introduce HDTV to the USA. Several systems were proposed as the new standard for the USA, including the Japanese MUSE system, but all were rejected by the FCC because of their higher bandwidth requirement.
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