STATISTICS

March 2004 Domestic Shipments of Major Consumer Electronic Equipment (thousand units, % = in comparison with the previous year)

  March 2004 2004 total to date
thousand units % thousand units %
Color TVs 663 82.9 1,540 81.3
Standard screen (4:3) TVs
Wide-screen TVs
Hi-Vision TVs
591
46
26
84.1
68.4
86.4
1,354
117
69
82.3
67.5
90.8
Screen sizes less than 15 inches
Screen sizes from 16 inches to 21 inches
Screen sizes from 22 inches to 29 inches
Screen sizes 30 inches and above
215
252
168
28
75.6
95.6
82.5
58.2
492
551
424
73
75.9
90.5
81.7
61.0
With digital satellite broadcasting tuner 28 86.8 73 90.5
Plasma display panel (PDP) TVs and monitors 23 124.7 52 133.6
With digital satellite broadcasting tuner 21 132.6 46 146.2
Liquid crystal device (LCD) TVs 216 172.3 453 164.8
Screen sizes 10 inches and above 178 187.1 375 187.3
VTRs 183 60.8 492 61.6
DVD video players 506 123.9 1,185 117.7
Recording / reproducing 237 204.0 510 192.7
With HDD 173 247.8 366 206.7
Players 269 92.1 675 90.9
With VTR 131 84.4 327 85.4
Video cameras with recorders 223 109.1 419 114.5
Video projection units 3 94.7 9 95.2
Antennas for satellite broadcasting 60 103.0 147 103.8
Antennas for communication satellite broadcasting 13 126.2 54 251.3
Tuners for digital satellite broadcasting 11 80.8 21 55.6
Tuners for digital communication satellite broadcasting 25 84.4 50 71.1
Radio receivers 172 97.9 465 99.8
Cassette recorders with radio and CD players 186 86.9 421 83.8
With radio and CD/MD players 86 91.7 189 82.2
Headphone stereos 31 59.5 92 60.7
Other tape recorders 74 98.0 202 94.2
IC recorders 83 142.8 199 142.5
Compact disc (CD) players 125 84.8 328 73.9
Portable-type 117 84.9 305 73.2
Mini disc (MD) players 291 88.1 747 96.3
Portable-type 285 88.1 731 96.7
Stereo sets 216 87.8 564 90.9
With mini disc players 189 90.7 487 91.8
Hi-fi amplifiers 28 99.5 70 92.6
Hi-fi speaker systems 23 84.1 74 88.9
Car navigation systems 337 131.4 804 127.7
DVD-ROM-type
HDD-type
254
67
126.9
302.6
607
163
122.7
316.5
Car color TVs 104 113.2 285 108.4
Car cassette stereos 87 76.9 238 75.5
Car compact disc players 654 107.2 1,675 99.2
Car mini disc players 38 103.5 85 99.3
Car radios 90 101.8 240 97.9