The prospects of next generation television - Japan's initiative to 2020

摘要

In japan, Telecommunications Authority supposed the first grand schedule for launching and spread of UHDTV & advanced smart TV, called `roadmap', in June 2013. The roadmap suggested that business-based 4KTV & 8KTV broadcast would be launched until 2020. In 2014, experimental 4K broadcast started and `roadmap' was revised. Comprehensively, grand schedule for launching UHDTV in Japan is said to move up about 2 years.