Shipment decreased drastically in the two consecutive months of March and April.
Various factors including enforcement of the new recycling law are thinkable as the cause.
I will try to uncover the more direct causes and discuss what measures can be taken together with the eight BS digital broadcasters and the equipment makers. He also said that a receiver unit costing as high as 100,000 yen is also a problem. Graph 1 shows the shipment figures of BS digital broadcasting receiver units. Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association provided the figures up to March 2001 and NHK the figure for April 2001. The graph shows that shipment hit its peak in December 2000.