STATISTICS

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

  August 2008 2008 total to date
thousand units % thousand units %
Color TVs 15 32.7 146 29.5
Plasma display panel (PDP) TVs and monitors 61 106.1 619 117.5
    Screen sizes less than 43 inches
    Screen sizes 44 inches and above
50
11
104.4
114.7
504
114
112.2
148.5
Liquid crystal device (LCD) TVs 605 123.8 5,123 124.2
    16:9
        Screen sizes less than 29 inches
        Screen sizes from 30 inches to 36 inches
        Screen sizes 37 inches and above
601
206
217
178
132.4
123.6
129.9
148.0
5,028
1,876
1,693
1,459
134.2
133.4
121.0
155.0
VTRs 11 49.0 111 56.3
DVD video players 293 69.3 2,881 86.7
    Recording / reproducing 141 69.5 1,494 85.8
    Players 152 69.2 1,386 87.7
    With VTR 31 50.7 340 73.4
DVD playersbased onBlue -Ray and /orHD/DVD 109 7,696.5 703 2,013.0
   Video cameras with recorders 135 97.7 911 106.9
   Video projection units 1 50.8 9 66.6
   Antennas for satellite broadcasting / communication satellite broadcasting 81 113.8 619 110.4
   Tuners for digital communication satellite broadcasting 9 55.8 94 68.2
Radio receivers 136 79.6 1,249 95.0
Cassette recorders with radio and CD players 89 85.8 873 96.8
Compact disc (CD) players 53 108.0 429 103.8
Mini disc (MD) players 9 38.3 109 44.9
Stereo sets 50 85.8 506 74.1
Digital audio players 263 114.7 3,773 115.5
    Flash memory-type 231 106.5 3,232 113.6
amplifiers 11 65.2 122 88.9
speaker systems 32 117.4 282 129.9
Car navigation systems 279 95.0 3,051 106.0
    DVD-ROM-type
    HDD-type (other )
79
200
72.0
108.9
838
2,213
76.5
124.2
Car color TVs 69 87.4 791 113.4
Car DVD players 24 102.4 234 121.4
Car cassette stereos 25 71.5 259 80.9
Car compact disc players 399 83.1 4,227 101.5
Vehicle ETC units 265 81.4 2,605 101.8