STATISTICS

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

  October 2008 2008 total to date
thousand units % thousand units %
Color TVs 9 29.4 166 29.2
Plasma display panel (PDP) TVs and monitors 90 99.2 804 114.7
    Screen sizes less than 43 inches
    Screen sizes 44 inches and above
73
17
92.7
140.6
655
149
109.0
148.5
Liquid crystal device (LCD) TVs 612 100.3 6,502 121.2
    16:9
        Screen sizes less than 29 inches
        Screen sizes from 30 inches to 36 inches
        Screen sizes 37 inches and above
605
222
213
170
106.6
114.6
101.1
104.1
6,394
2,377
2,161
1,856
130.4
131.7
118.3
145.9
VTRs 14 61.7 138 57.6
DVD video players 302 63.5 3,490 82.7
    Recording / reproducing 153 58.4 1,794 80.6
    Players 150 69.8 1,696 85.1
    With VTR 31 46.5 406 69.7
DVD playersbased onBlue -Ray and /orHD/DVD 167 523.1 1,009 1,478.5
   Video cameras with recorders 83 83.4 1,184 102.2
   Video projection units 1 36.6 11 62.6
   Antennas for satellite broadcasting / communication satellite broadcasting 83 112.3 789 111.4
   Tuners for digital communication satellite broadcasting 17 112.6 118 70.5
Radio receivers 158 91.2 1,566 94.3
Cassette recorders with radio and CD players 108 95.8 1,076 95.0
Compact disc (CD) players 57 136.9 542 107.2
Mini disc (MD) players 10 49.0 128 44.8
Stereo sets 63 83.0 632 75.3
Digital audio players 802 107.5 5,132 111.8
    Flash memory-type 763 142.8 4,491 116.5
amplifiers 14 81.6 153 88.6
speaker systems 40 136.8 366 134.0
Car navigation systems 377 98.5 3,827 105.3
    DVD-ROM-type
    HDD-type (other )
89
288
69.2
113.4
1,013
2,814
75.0
123.3
Car color TVs 95 93.7 980 109.2
Car DVD players 28 93.1 293 116.7
Car cassette stereos 32 76.9 325 81.5
Car compact disc players 530 88.0 5,310 100.2
Vehicle ETC units 320 101.6 3,255 101.2