The country’s early start in mobile television owes as much to its sprawling suburbs as to its broadcasting acumen.

日本引领移动电视风潮很大程度上要归功于该国的城郊不断蔓延，而日本的广播公司敏锐的发现了这个商机。

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Many Japanese watch television on 1seg, a mobile terrestrial digital-audio and video-data broadcasting service.

许多日本人都通过1seg来看电视，那是一种传送图像、声音和数据的地面数字播放服务。

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Instead, the service USES an ATSC broadcasting system to beam signals directly from the station to the mobile devices themselves.

这种服务采用了高级电视系统委员会(atsc)的广播系统直接向手机发射信号。

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Its unique standard, CMMB (China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting), is digital, based on homegrown technology and specifically designed for mobile broadcasting.

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However, a confluence of events has just led to the BBC's Nick Garnett becoming a pioneer for mobile broadcasting on the professional level.

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Despite success in countries like Japan, Korea and Italy, which began broadcasting mobile digital TV as early as 2005, the technology has yet to take off worldwide.

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