STATISTICS

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

  December 2008 2008 total to date
thousand units % thousand units %
Color TVs 10 35.3 183 29.3
Plasma display panel (PDP) TVs and monitors 154 101.9 1,070 110.8
    Screen sizes less than 43 inches
    Screen sizes 44 inches and above
122
31
94.4
148.3
872
198
105.1
145.6
Liquid crystal device (LCD) TVs 1,261 106.2 8,633 117.0
    16:9
        Screen sizes less than 29 inches
        Screen sizes from 30 inches to 36 inches
        Screen sizes 37 inches and above
1,249
399
450
401
109.8
110.4
106.5
113.1
8,505
3,053
2,934
2,517
124.6
125.4
115.7
135.7
VTRs 13 45.8 163 56.4
DVD video players 483 60.5 4,296 77.6
    Recording / reproducing 272 58.8 2,240 74.9
    Players 211 62.8 2,057 80.8
    With VTR 49 53.0 491 66.4
DVD playersbased onBlue -Ray and /orHD/DVD 390 392.0 1,588 674.0
   Video cameras with recorders 107 102.1 1,366 101.4
   Video projection units 1 61.7 13 61.3
   Antennas for satellite broadcasting / communication satellite broadcasting 119 92.4 988 107.3
   Tuners for digital communication satellite broadcasting 11 49.5 138 68.1
Radio receivers 163 86.6 1,870 93.2
Cassette recorders with radio and CD players 143 73.7 1,313 90.5
Compact disc (CD) players 86 101.6 679 105.8
Mini disc (MD) players 5 16.0 140 41.6
Stereo sets 121 65.2 807 72.3
Digital audio players 935 115.1 6,657 110.9
    Flash memory-type 914 120.6 5,982 117.4
amplifiers 22 71.7 190 86.2
speaker systems 69 119.9 478 130.8
Car navigation systems 314 84.3 4,489 101.2
    DVD-ROM-type
    HDD-type (other )
48
265
41.3
104.1
1,130
3,359
70.4
118.6
Car color TVs 64 71.7 1,123 102.9
Car DVD players 16 58.5 331 106.6
Car cassette stereos 22 56.6 374 77.9
Car compact disc players 388 73.3 6,134 95.6
Vehicle ETC units 444 126.2 4,292 109.2