Sales of pocket projectors will hit 1.5m over the next four years according to the latest research from market watcher, Pacific Media Associates (PMA). Pocket projectors make up a tiny proportion of the market at the moment but PMA claims that sales will ramp up fast from this year as more products arrive. According to its predictions there will be sales of 87,000 units by next year, 356,000 by 2008, 1m by 2009 and over 1.5m by 2010. Revenues of just $15m this year will jump to over $500m by 2010.

“We see the development of pocket projectors as going through three stages,” said PMA vice president Michael Abramson. “Currently, they are seen as standalone products, to be connected to other devices such as PDAs, cell phones, iPods, and handheld video games. By 2008, these projectors will be modules designed to attach directly to such mobile business and consumer devices. By 2010, the projector will become an integrated part of the devices to provide large imaging capabilities for handheld, battery-powered units.”

The few models on the market today tend to use low-brightness LEDs instead of bulbs which restricts where the projectors can be used but PMA said LED brightness is improving fast and could hit 100 Lumens brightness before 2009. Via AV Interactive.

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