Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that inventories of consumer flat panel televisions at North American distributors rose 68% in January over December’s levels. Their Flat Panel Display Distributor Tracking Service report for January 2008 also shows that distributor sales of HDTVs fell 37%.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for flat panel HDTV televisions in North America grew by 27% in December over November’s sales, marking a seasonal sales surge for the end of the year. Their Consumer Flat Panel Display Sell-Through Tracking Service also shows that consumers moved toward buying larger size models.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for professional flat panel televisions and business displays in North America were up by 4% in December over November’s level. Their Professional Flat Panel Display Sell-Through Tracking Service also shows that increasing average street prices rose 1%, resulting in a 5% increase in revenues.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has just completed their End User Survey, which provides quantitative evidence of some notable and sometimes surprising consumer behavior. One key result is a measure of the reasons that consumers increasingly choose LCD over plasma for flat panel HDTVs.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has earned the reputation as the leader in front projector sell-through data, with more than 10 years’ experience tracking the Pro AV channel. The company also tracks large flat panel products, for both the consumer and professional markets. The professional products include those intended for lodging and digital signage installations, as well as other business-to-business applications.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that in the hotly contested 50” to 54” HDTV market segment, 1080p LCD models outsold 1080p plasma models nearly three to one, even though the LCD models had average street prices 19% higher than the plasma models. LCDs continue to take market share away from plasma. As reported in their October Consumer 2007 Flat Panel Display Tracking Service, LCDs accounted for 80% of the total units sold in the flat panel TV market (models 26” or larger).

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for rear projection HDTVs in North America increased 27% in October over September’s figures. Their October 2007 RPTV Sell-Through Tracking Service also shows that this is the highest unit sales since May 2007, but still represents less than half the sales in January 2007.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, announces their 2007 U.S. Large-Screen Displays End User Survey, to be conducted via the Web.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has revised its worldwide forecasts for New Era front projector products. Unit shipments are expected to total less than 50,000 units this year, but that will grow rapidly to nearly 8 million units by 2011, with revenues topping $1.5 billion.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has announced the Buckaroo winners for best-of-show products exhibited at CEDIA 2007. The Buckaroo award is named for the pioneering cowboys of the Great Basin country of the American West, which includes portions of California, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon. These cowboys were known for fancy gear that displayed lots of silver ornamentation.

In-room Viewing and Digital Signage Were Top Applications, per Detailed Surveys

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has just released their forecasts for a new breed of front projectors. Although these models will offer only 500 lumens of brightness or less, Pacific Media estimates that they will experience explosive growth from only 18 thousand units in 2006 to more than 6.5 million in 2011.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for rear projection televisions in North America fell again in May, with unit sales down 12% against April sales. Their May 2007 RPTV Sell-Through Tracking Service report also shows unit sales are up 6% compared with May 2006, but revenues are down 21% between the two periods.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for consumer flat panel televisions in North America increased just 1% over April 2007 sales. Their Consumer Flat Panel Display Sell-Through Tracking Service report also shows that revenues were up nearly 4%, even though prices for individual models were generally down for the month.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has given awards to the top six front projection companies, based on the 11th Annual Dealer Survey. This is the authoritative source of independent, unbiased ratings of large-screen displays manufacturers by dealers throughout North America.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, will add the demand-side dimension of TV sets to the broad range of topics covering the supply-side of flat panels during Displaybank’s Annual US FPD Conference, to be held in San Jose, CA on July 19 and 20.