TV in Japan

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Introduction

TV is one of major sources of knowledge for us now. Then, we can get lot of information about such as news, education, sports and music on TV. In Japan, there is a variety of television stations. The broadcasting system has started to switch in recent years. Well, I'll talk about digital broadcasting, NHK and commercial messages.

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(Digital broadcasting)

From 2003, the broadcasting system in Japan began to switch from analog to digital broadcasting. One of advantages of the digital broadcasting is that images on TV are more vivid than before. Incidentally, analog broadcasting will be terminated by 2011. Therefore, people who have TV sets which aren't had tuners for the digital broadcasting built-in will have to buy the tuners by the year if they want to watch TV. Now, they ate more than 500 yen at least, so it's one of disadvantages of the digital broadcasting.

http://www.dpa.or.jp/

(NHK)

NHK is a television station in Japan. It means Japan Broadcasting Corporation in English. As features of it, there are many TV language programs on it. An English TV program, 'can you speak English?' is famous among them. Anyway, we can learn not only English but also French, German, Chinese and so on on NHK. Personally, TV language programs on it are very useful and valuable.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/

(Commercial messages)

Now, a lot of commercial messages are broadcasted on TV. Usually, each of them is broadcasted for 15 to 30 seconds. They can affect us more or less. For example, when a person watches a good commercial message about something to drink, the person can get to feel like having it. Recently, commercial messages are also delivered on the Internet. Therefore, we can watch them anytime we like.

http://www.cmjapan.com/

Conclusion

Well, we are benefiting from TV before we know it. Watching TV moderately is very good for us. We can get information anytime now. However, it is important for us to choose the right information. In other words, it's up to us how we make use of information from TV. [330 words]