NEWS WORLD Front projector shipments reach €1.9bn
ANNUAL WORLDWIDE shipments of front projectors grew 6% year-on-year to 2.12 million units in Q4 2013, representing $2.63 billion (€1.9bn) value, according to research revealed by Futuresource Consulting.
In 2013, EMEA Q4
performance posted a 4% year-on-year volume growth to reach 702,000 units – although this wasn’t enough to offset the year-on-year decline of 6%. Eastern Europe enjoyed the
greatest year-on-year quarterly growth for EMEA, where 151,000 units were shipped during Q4, amounting to a 12% increase from the same period in 2012. Within those stats, and driven by the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia recorded a 10% increase in year-on-year shipments. EU member states in Eastern Europe also enjoyed growth as a result of using up the remainder of their 2007-13 EU budget. The Middle East and Africa,
meanwhile, saw only modest growth in the quarter with 139,000 units shipped, a 1% year-on-year growth.
With 412,000 units shipped UNITED KINGDOM TecZone is go for Leisuretec
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multipurpose space suitable for holding a range of event types, including meetings, training sessions, product demos, videoconferences and networking events. There are three main video
zones in the room: the Main Zone is centred around an 80in Sharp PN-L802B Big Pad touchscreen LED display, while an alcove-mounted 55in Samsung 55F6100 LED display is at the heart of both
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forward for Helvar. The move into modules allows us to
fully support our customers in making a successful transition across to LED lighting,” said Peter van der Kolk, business development director at Helvar. “Alongside the new additions to our portfolio, Helvar will be providing design and planning tools as part of the launch. Additionally Helvar is committed to continue strong investments into the field of LED technology. Samsung’s LED technology complements our reputation for quality and reliability.”
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the Secondary and Tertiary Zones. (All three displays are 1920 x 1080 resolution.) The 80in display can be used as a digital whiteboard and is equipped with interactive tools. Source equipment comprises a Yamaha BD-S473 networked Blu-ray player, a Sky satellite TV receiver and a networked PC. The main area of the room contains six floor boxes with analogue and HDMI input points – four in the Main Zone and one each in the Secondary and Tertiary Zones. Wireless connectivity is provided by a WePresent WiPG-1000 Wireless Interactive Presentation
Gateway, which allows presenters to display their content up to a quad display on the main 80in screen. An AMX DVX-3155-SP
presentation switcher is used to distribute, switch and scale the sources, and an AMX FG1010-310 multi- format transmitter can be connected to any of the four floor boxes. An iPad running AMX’s TP Control software provides the user interface. A Yahama 7.1 speaker
system – comprising seven VXS8 wall-mounted speakers and two VXS10S floor- standing subwoofers – carries audio from the various sources, as well as from a
Sennheiser wireless microphone system. Leisuretec managing
director Cliff Dounting explained that he expects the facility to be used for the most part for events involving the company’s distributed brands. For instance, Leisuretec and Allen & Heath held a ‘Digital versus Analogue’ event at TecZone
on 4 March, which consisted of presentations about analogue and digital audio and the first UK demonstrations of the manufacturer’s Qu-24 compact digital mixer. Forthcoming events include an Avolites Master 7 Foundation Master Class and a ‘scaled- down version’ of Sennheiser’s Sound Academy.
www.leisuretec.co.uk
during Q4, Western Europe enjoyed an overall year-on- year growth of 3%, largely due to strong retail sales in France and Germany, whose markets had year-on-year increases of 8% and 9% respectively. Spain had its best sell-in since 2011, with 330,900 projectors being shipped during the period. A reduced sell-in to the UK’s under-represented retail market for projectors saw the country experience a 5% year-on-year decline in total sales in the final quarter. Elsewhere, the Asia-Pacific
market enjoyed a 5% year-on- year increase in projector shipments during Q4, where a
total of 835,000 units were shipped. However annual totals contracted by 0.2% with 3.17 million units shipped during 2013 compared to 3.18 million units in 2012.
The Americas market grew
by 8% year-on-year in Q4 2013, following a generally poor sell-in to the region during
2013.The United States was the key driver behind the regional growth where virtually all market segments had increased sales – a year-on-year growth of 12% in Q4 2013 – after weak sales in the first three quarters of 2013.
www.futuresource-consulting.com
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