How Many People Need Lamps?

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:11:21 +0000

Recently, Luth Research, a leader in survey design and research study, conducted a survey of over 160,000 Americans to find out what kind televisions they owned. With Luth Research’s assistance, Lamp Research will aim to find out how many Americans have a need for digital projection lamps. This research study was commissioned by MI Technologies, Inc., owner of lamp retailer Discount-Merchant.com — an authorized Philips distributor.

First, the data:

TOTAL	Conventional / CRT	Plasma Flat Screen	LCD Flat screen	Projection	Other, Please Specify
162855	125908	29345	55302	12176	2495
100.00%	77.31%	18.02%	33.96%	7.48%	1.53%

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Next, we’ll analyze the numbers to find out two things: How many lamps need to be produced by OEM Manufacturer Philips Lighting, and how many Americans will need lamps if lamps last approximately 6,000 hours.

We know that over 290 million Americans own televisions (Cal State University Northridge), so if we were to make an educated guess using the date collected by Luth Research, we could say that approximately 21 million Americans own some sort of projection television at home. From other industry sources, we also know that as of 2004, over 5 million DLPs have been sold. Obviously more have been sold since then, but we can use 2004 numbers to say that there are at least 23.8% of projection televisions owned by Americans today are DLPs. This is only about 2%, but that doesn’t include LCD projection or other consumer electronics that utilize digital light projection.

According to the Luth Research Study, of the 12,000 Americans surveyed with projection televisions, over 70% have a Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, RCA, Mitsubishi, or Hitachi projection television sets. This means that there are many owners of digital projection lighting television sets out there with a name brand set using name brand equipment. That market is big, and while it’s not growing as it used to, the consumer base is there and millions of digital projection lamps will be needed in the near future!

Of the manufactures listed, most use Philips as their OEM lamp, and by our projections, Philips will need to produce over a million lamps per month over the course of the next few years to meet the demands of both DLP and LCD projection manufacturers, and consumer replacement parts.

Inquiries about this research please contact pi@lampresearch.com.

Raw Data:

Which type(s) of television display/monitor do you have? Please select all that apply.
	Which type(s) of television display/monitor do you have? Please select all that apply.
	TOTAL	Conventional / CRT	Plasma Flat Screen	LCD Flat screen	Projection	Other, Please Specify
	(A)	(B)	(C)	(D)	(E)	(F)
TOTAL	162855	125908	29345	55302	12176	2495
	100.00%	77.31%	18.02%	33.96%	7.48%	1.53%
	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%
	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sony	68404	52410	16489	27807	6383	839
	100.00%	76.62%	24.11%	40.65%	9.33%	1.23%
	42.00%	41.63%	56.19%	50.28%	52.42%	33.63%
	0	99	134	120	125	80
Fujitsu	1687	1196	832	999	443	16
	100.00%	70.90%	49.32%	59.22%	26.26%	0.95%
	1.04%	0.95%	2.84%	1.81%	3.64%	0.64%
	0	92	274	174	351	62
Gateway	956	655	581	675	385	13
	100.00%	68.51%	60.77%	70.61%	40.27%	1.36%
	0.59%	0.52%	1.98%	1.22%	3.16%	0.52%
	0	89	337	208	539	89
Hitachi	8446	6746	2371	3611	1790	132
	100.00%	79.87%	28.07%	42.75%	21.19%	1.56%
	5.19%	5.36%	8.08%	6.53%	14.70%	5.29%
	0	103	156	126	283	102
JVC Televisions	11385	9705	2318	4423	1359	185
	100.00%	85.24%	20.36%	38.85%	11.94%	1.62%
	6.99%	7.71%	7.90%	8.00%	11.16%	7.41%
	0	110	113	114	160	106
LG	17125	11452	5432	8687	1468	188
	100.00%	66.87%	31.72%	50.73%	8.57%	1.10%
	10.52%	9.10%	18.51%	15.71%	12.06%	7.54%
	0	86	176	149	115	72
Panasonic	36486	30032	9096	13783	3386	419
	100.00%	82.31%	24.93%	37.78%	9.28%	1.15%
	22.40%	23.85%	31.00%	24.92%	27.81%	16.79%
	0	106	138	111	124	75
Philips	26419	21540	5929	10428	2525	333
	100.00%	81.53%	22.44%	39.47%	9.56%	1.26%
	16.22%	17.11%	20.20%	18.86%	20.74%	13.35%
	0	105	125	116	128	82
Pioneer	3466	2631	1507	1720	720	45
	100.00%	75.91%	43.48%	49.62%	20.77%	1.30%
	2.13%	2.09%	5.14%	3.11%	5.91%	1.80%
	0	98	241	146	278	85
RCA/Thomson Scenium	16311	14674	2170	5124	2242	330
	100.00%	89.96%	13.30%	31.41%	13.75%	2.02%
	10.02%	11.65%	7.39%	9.27%	18.41%	13.23%
	0	116	74	93	184	132
Samsung	28377	21194	7271	13045	2784	501
	100.00%	74.69%	25.62%	45.97%	9.81%	1.77%
	17.42%	16.83%	24.78%	23.59%	22.86%	20.08%
	0	97	142	135	131	115
Sanyo	20709	18021	3491	7002	1993	333
	100.00%	87.02%	16.86%	33.81%	9.62%	1.61%
	12.72%	14.31%	11.90%	12.66%	16.37%	13.35%
	0	113	94	100	129	105
Sharp	17789	14889	3618	7117	1777	248
	100.00%	83.70%	20.34%	40.01%	9.99%	1.39%
	10.92%	11.83%	12.33%	12.87%	14.59%	9.94%
	0	108	113	118	134	91
Epson	1143	921	504	631	384	15
	100.00%	80.58%	44.09%	55.21%	33.60%	1.31%
	0.70%	0.73%	1.72%	1.14%	3.15%	0.60%
	0	104	245	163	449	86
SIM2 Seleco USA	387	308	314	328	274	8
	100.00%	79.59%	81.14%	84.75%	70.80%	2.07%
	0.24%	0.24%	1.07%	0.59%	2.25%	0.32%
	0	103	450	250	947	135
InFocus	526	432	361	405	350	15
	100.00%	82.13%	68.63%	77.00%	66.54%	2.85%
	0.32%	0.34%	1.23%	0.73%	2.87%	0.60%
	0	106	381	227	890	186
ReVox	439	362	330	358	278	8
	100.00%	82.46%	75.17%	81.55%	63.33%	1.82%
	0.27%	0.29%	1.12%	0.65%	2.28%	0.32%
	0	107	417	240	847	119
Sampo	519	398	348	393	285	9
	100.00%	76.69%	67.05%	75.72%	54.91%	1.73%
	0.32%	0.32%	1.19%	0.71%	2.34%	0.36%
	0	99	372	223	734	113
Studio Experience	394	308	334	332	276	9
	100.00%	78.17%	84.77%	84.26%	70.05%	2.28%
	0.24%	0.24%	1.14%	0.60%	2.27%	0.36%
	0	101	470	248	937	149
Texas Instruments	489	376	362	381	305	11
	100.00%	76.89%	74.03%	77.91%	62.37%	2.25%
	0.30%	0.30%	1.23%	0.69%	2.50%	0.44%
	0	99	411	229	834	147
Toshiba	20113	16468	4518	8216	2509	335
	100.00%	81.88%	22.46%	40.85%	12.47%	1.67%
	12.35%	13.08%	15.40%	14.86%	20.61%	13.43%
	0	106	125	120	167	109
V Inc./Vizio	1966	1356	839	1566	411	37
	100.00%	68.97%	42.68%	79.65%	20.91%	1.88%
	1.21%	1.08%	2.86%	2.83%	3.38%	1.48%
	0	89	237	235	280	123
Zenith	8752	7937	1526	2897	1110	107
	100.00%	90.69%	17.44%	33.10%	12.68%	1.22%
	5.37%	6.30%	5.20%	5.24%	9.12%	4.29%
	0	117	97	97	170	80
Magnavox	16014	14424	2454	5507	1880	219
	100.00%	90.07%	15.32%	34.39%	11.74%	1.37%
	9.83%	11.46%	8.36%	9.96%	15.44%	8.78%
	0	117	85	101	157	89
Mitsubishi	5857	4811	1388	2502	1639	156
	100.00%	82.14%	23.70%	42.72%	27.98%	2.66%
	3.60%	3.82%	4.73%	4.52%	13.46%	6.25%
	0	106	132	126	374	174
Sylvania	6235	5532	1111	2290	795	102
	100.00%	88.72%	17.82%	36.73%	12.75%	1.64%
	3.83%	4.39%	3.79%	4.14%	6.53%	4.09%
	0	115	99	108	171	107
Other, Please Specify	32709	27459	4084	10764	2062	891
	100.00%	83.95%	12.49%	32.91%	6.30%	2.72%
	20.08%	21.81%	13.92%	19.46%	16.93%	35.71%
	0	109	69	97	84	178

Philips vs. Osram Lamps

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:27:15 +0000

In an ongoing effort to provide the most sensible and accurate data, we’re still analyzing the results of our Philips vs Osram survey. We’ll get back to you shortly!

July Flash Survey

admin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:42:58 +0000

We conducted a consumer survey in July of 122 Samsung and Mitsubishi DLP owners.

We asked: “What kind of issues have you experienced with your Samsung or Mitsubishi DLP television set in the past two years?”

The answers ranged from replacing the lamp to replacing the light engine.

Lamp replacement	Ballast or color wheel	Light Engine or other major repair	No problems	Total
53	25	4	40	122

July 2008 Flash Survey

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