STATISTICS

April 2008 Domestic Shipments of Major Consumer Electronic Equipment (thousand units, % = in comparison with the previous year)

  April 2008 2008 total to date
thousand units % thousand units %
Color TVs 19 27.6 86 27.1
Plasma display panel (PDP) TVs and monitors 95 106.9 283 115.9
    Screen sizes less than 43 inches
    Screen sizes 44 inches and above
71
24
95.2
168.0
236
47
114.4
124.4
Liquid crystal device (LCD) TVs 575 105.3 2,455 122.6
    16:9
        Screen sizes less than 29 inches
        Screen sizes from 30 inches to 36 inches
        Screen sizes 37 inches and above
567
211
191
164
116.9
108.7
104.7
152.1
2,389
993
747
649
134.9
142.4
116.3
150.4
VTRs 11 50.5 66 56.8
DVD video players 372 88.9 1,584 101.1
    Recording / reproducing 187 79.7 829 101.2
    Players 185 100.6 755 101.1
    With VTR 48 88.8 210 91.6
DVD playersbased onBlue -Ray and /orHD/DVD 81 2,050.4 251 1,344.1
   Video cameras with recorders 102 120.7 497 105.3
   Video projection units 1 40.6 4 57.5
   Antennas for satellite broadcasting / communication satellite broadcasting 78 100.1 285 105.5
   Tuners for digital communication satellite broadcasting 18 80.8 56 71.4
Radio receivers 168 90.7 630 100.4
Cassette recorders with radio and CD players 118 98.4 469 102.5
Compact disc (CD) players 61 118.7 214 107.9
Mini disc (MD) players 16 57.9 62 44.4
Stereo sets 89 81.0 274 71.4
Digital audio players 622 101.1 2,202 109.7
    Flash memory-type 529 98.8 1,851 106.6
amplifiers 15 94.6 65 88.0
speaker systems 40 131.7 127 127.6
Car navigation systems 351 101.3 1,506 106.1
    DVD-ROM-type
    HDD-type (other )
108
243
80.1
114.8
441
1,065
76.5
126.3
Car color TVs 94 111.8 408 111.7
Car DVD players 29 141.2 120 125.5
Car cassette stereos 30 75.6 136 83.6
Car compact disc players 519 103.9 2,234 103.3
Vehicle ETC units 336 126.9 1,328 103.1