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April Projection
Monthly Summary
Our April issue of Projection Monthly is now
in the hands of our subscribers, and the 111 pages this month include
highlights from three display industry events that took place in March:
The USDC / Needham Investors Conference held in NY, the ShoWest national
theater owners conference and expo in Las Vegas, and the HDTV Summit
held in Washington DC. We combed the show floors, sat in the sessions
and wrote up the reports on what we found.
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article with links]
InFocus Adapting to
Industry Changes
InFocus Corporation (Wilsonville, OR) used
its time slot at the conference to update investors on its recently
released earnings. The company is in a tough spot as it is a "pure
play" in the projection industry, but, as a public company, is
measured on a quarterly basis by its performance. As the projection
industry undergoes tremendous transformation, it is difficult to always
stay ahead of changes, as InFocus has found out. Despite some bumps
in its performance, we continue to be impressed with the company's leadership
and moves to stay one step ahead. [Full
article with links]
USDC-Needham Investor's Conference
IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell kicked off the tenth annual USDC Needham Investor's
Conference on March 15th in New York City, with a keynote address that
highlighted the results of a consumer survey the company conducted recently.
Not surprisingly, the survey revealed a lot of confusion among consumers..
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article with links]
ShoWest Report
In early March Insight Media Analyst, Steve Sechrist
attended the ShoWest cinema trade show in Las Vegas. While the focus
of this conference in the past has been on projection systems and upcoming
films, this years' event marks a shift in emphasis. While plenty of
new technology was in evidence, there is a new emphasis on advertising.
It has now become an integral part of the digital cinema transition
and its role will only increase in the future. Here's Steve's report:
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article with links]
Gateway Back in CE Business
Gateway (Poway, CA) (www.gateway.com) recently
introduced a new 30-inch HD-ready LCD-TV, touting a lifetime of 50K
hours, according to Home Video News. This is the first new TV introduction
from Gateway since it left the CE business last year and decided to
rededicate itself to the computer category. [Full
article with links]
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Projection Summit to Focus on Competitive Strategies
InfoComm 05 Features PS'05 for Fourth Year in Las Vegas June
6-7
The time has come for all the players in
the professional audiovisual market, generally, and for projection
system suppliers, specifically, to be sure their strategies will help
them weather the increasingly competitive environment for big-screen
displays. Three major forces are making profits more difficult to
come by:
- The emergence of the low-cost education projector
market, the success of the IT channel, and the maturing of the mainstream
enterprise front projector market have all led to the commodity-like
status of projectors, stagnant revenues, and extreme price pressures.
- Falling prices for big flat-panel displays have
dramatically increased competition in other ProAV markets where
projectors have historically dominated.
- While the recent successes in home rear-projection
televisions have been a bright light for the projection industry,
flat-panel makers predict that they will reverse the gains over
the next few years as their new big-screen fabs come onstream. [Full
article with links]
Insight
Media Releases MD-RPTV Databases
Insight Media, the leader in microdisplay-based intelligence,
has released a database of specifications for microdisplay-based rear-projection
TVs (MD-RPTVs). The database, delivered as an excel file, contains
specifications on 196 models from 26 companies. The
database contains all major specifications for LCOS, DLP and 3LCD
rear-projection models, including price and availability. This information
was gathered by review of company web sites and product brochures
and was augmented with additional spec information developed by Insight
Media, including announced or planned products for release later this
year. Each company has a full folder of spec sheets as back-up documentation.
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