Taiwan-based projector suppliers Optoma and BenQ have been enriching their portfolios of Ultra HD (4K) home-use projectors in order to garner a larger share of the booming 4K projector market, according to market observers.
The global 4K projector market has been growing fast in recent years, with home-use systems expected to grow 75% in 2018, said the observers, citing data from market research firms.
Optoma has released an array of 4K projectors, including UHD51A, UHD50, UHD60 and UHD65 and ProScene UHZ65, with the UHD 51A being the world's first Alexa-enabled home theater projector, according to the company.
The Optoma UHD 50, the company's latest 4K projector model, features 2,400 lumens, 500,000:1 contrast ratio, an RGBRGB color wheel and HDR10 with Rec.2020/DCI-P3 wide color gamut compatibility and delivers 4K UHD images of up to 300 inches, according to company data.
Optoma will continue to strive to develop smart projectors that will be compatible with Google's Home or Microsoft's Cortana smart speaker systems, as the overall market trend is moving toward the development of AI-centric applications, said Gordon Wu, assistant vice president, Optoma Asia-Pacific.
Optoma's projector shipments to the Asia-Pacific region expanded 50% on year in 2017 thanks to the completion of a number of procurement projects in India and other markets in the area, Wu indicated.
BenQ also released its latest 4K projector, W1700, recently. Using 0.47-inch single-DMD DLP technology, the W1700 is able to deliver 4K resolutions with 8.3 million distant pixels for each frame, according to company data. The W1700 supports HDR10, auto keystone correction and 1.2x zoom.
Global shipments of 4K home-use projectors totaled 80,000 units in 2017 and are expected to reach 680,000 units by 2021, according to an industry estimate.
Article translated by Steve Shen
