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Technology › Nearly 70% of Japanese families have digital broadcasting receivers

The government said Friday an estimated 69.5% of Japanese families had acquired televisions or tuners to receive terrestrial digital broadcasting signals in September, up 8.8… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Nov 06 2009

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