據(jù)美聯(lián)社4月1日?qǐng)?bào)道，由于市場(chǎng)上這種安裝了特別的信號(hào)接收器的新型手機(jī)數(shù)量不多，加之消費(fèi)者提前搶購(gòu)，如今各處商店的柜臺(tái)里已難見(jiàn)其蹤影。盡管日本幾大手機(jī)運(yùn)營(yíng)商均表示新型手機(jī)頗受消費(fèi)者歡迎，但都未透露具體的銷售業(yè)績(jī)。
在此之前，韓國(guó)、英國(guó)以及其他一些國(guó)家已經(jīng)推出了類似的手機(jī)電視業(yè)務(wù)。美國(guó)一些地區(qū)的手機(jī)用戶也已經(jīng)享受到通過(guò)手機(jī)看電視的方便。1日正式推出的此項(xiàng)新型免費(fèi)業(yè)務(wù)將通過(guò)電視轉(zhuǎn)播站（而不是衛(wèi)星）來(lái)傳輸圖像，借助地面數(shù)字廣播系統(tǒng)打入市場(chǎng)。它還將通過(guò)空中電波（而不是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)）傳輸流式視頻信號(hào)。
目前，日本的9000萬(wàn)手機(jī)用戶已能通過(guò)手機(jī)玩游戲、下載音樂(lè)、發(fā)送電子郵件、瀏覽新聞、炒股、存儲(chǔ)照片和上網(wǎng)沖浪。
Digital TV broadcasts for mobile phones equipped with special receivers began in Japan's major urban areas Saturday, following several months of test broadcasts.
But finding new phones in stores proved hard as eager consumers have already snapped up the limited number of handsets on the market. Japan's major mobile carriers say sales are good, but have not disclosed numbers.
Japan's mobile TV service is not the world's first — South Korea, Britain and several other nations offer a similar service, although with different technologies. Mobile users in some parts of the United States can also tap into digital broadcasts.
But the new service in Japan, which is free, will potentially reach the broadest market yet through the country's terrestrial digital broadcast system, which relays images through the air via TV towers, not satellites.
It also uses broadcasting air waves, rather than an Internet connection, to relay streaming video.
Japan's 90 million mobile phone users already play video games, download music files, exchange e-mail, read news, trade stocks, store digital photos and surf the Web — all on tiny handset screens half the size of a business card.
