The Digital Home in Japan Standards Alliances and Leading Vendors Solutions

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Current status of the Japanese digital home market, including the development of the Japanese digital home policies, such as the e-Japan Strategy and the u-Japan Policy; existing digital home standard alliances in Japan, including the ECHONET, the DLNA, the iReady, the CLEF, and the UOPF; Toshiba, Matsushita, and Hitachi' s digital home solutions as well as comparison of these solutions; leading Japanese vendors' challenges in developing the digital home market.

• Table 1 Comparison of Japanese Digital Home Standards Alliances
• Table 2 Comparison of Toshiba, Matsushita, and Hitachi' s Digital Home Solutions

• Figure1 Development of Japanese IT Policies
• Figure2 The u-Japan Policy
• Figure3 The UOPF Alliance Vision
• Figure4 Toshiba' s Feminity Digital Home Solution
• Figure5 Matsushita' s Kurashi Net Digital Home Solutions
• Figure6 Hitachi' s HoRaSo Digital Home Solution