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Research and Markets Report: Gain Insight Into the Chinese Digital
Photo Frame Industry
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Research and Markets has announced the addition of "China DPF (Digital
Photo Frame) Industry Report, 2006-2007" to its offerings.
In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:
Regarding the emerging DPF industry, the report gives a description of
profit allocation, price trend of core parts, associated products
(digital cameras and cell phones with digital cameras) market as well
as pixel configuration. Besides, it also analyzes the market capacity
of DPF products in the future and makes a research on the DPF main ship
manufacturers, solution & design companies and DPF manufactories.
As digital cameras and cell phones with high-pixel cameras get popular,
people have been used to keeping their photos by all kinds of storage
devices such as PC HDD, semiconductor storage and CD-R. Even more, the
photos that are printed out are now mostly from digital cameras or cell
phones with digital cameras. However, as the digital photos grow at
geometric series, it will cost a lot to print the photos out, and
moreover, the traditional photo frame and photo album are far enough to
keep these photos. As a result, the DPF, a product that can keep and
review these digital photos, comes into being.
Actually, DPF appeared in the year of 2001, but due to the high price,
DPF market has been depressed until 2003. However, as main parts prices
went down, so did DPF prices and its market began to pick up in 2004.
In particular, the year of 2005 witnessed hot sales of DPF in Occident
countries, even though, its shipment reached only about 1.5 million
units. The shipment in 2006 is expected to increase by 233 percent over
the same period of previous year. In the forthcoming several years, DPF
market will develop more maturely and its output & sales and market
demand will still keep growing at a high rate.
Presently, the DPF platform is mainly for the application of medium-
and small-size LCD units. DVD player platform is now most frequently
used and multimedia application platforms such as PMP are also
available but there are few platforms special for DPF. The solution
based on DVD decoder chip is advantages in cost though, it can only
support limited media formats and its function keeps undiversified.
Most of the DPF made in China exported to abroad before 2006. However,
as Philips took the lead in promoting DPF across China since the end of
2005 and made some progress in gift market, more domestic manufacturers
have began to introduce DPF products in home markets since the second
half of 2006, which caused the DPF price a decline. However, generally,
the price was still very high in 2006 and DPF gifts were the mainstream
in DPF market then.
The critical value of average price has already reached USD 200 in
Occident mass consumption market while it is only USD 50 in China.
Although the average price in China still has a wide gap with the
critical value, yet, as the prices of the core parts of DPF (Nand Flash
and LCD panel) go down gradually, plus the more DPF manufacturers in
the future as well as the emergence of DPF chip, the critical value can
be reached soon. Once the mass consumption market starts up, DPF market
may far better than MP3/MP4 markets for one person may need more than
one DPF, he can put the DPFs in the office or on the desk and wall at
home, so DPF market will see a great market potential.
Companies Mentioned:
-SigmaTel
-Sunplus
-AMLOGIC
-Jeilin Technology Co., Ltd
-MXIC and Magic Pixel Inc
-ESS
-Myson Century, Inc.
-MTK
-Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd
-ATMEL
-Marvell
-NXP (Fomer Philips Semiconductor)
-Po-star
-Joisted Technology Co., Ltd
-Shenzhen High Victory Technology Co., Ltd
-IPCore Technologies Co., Ltd
-Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co., Ltd
-Newman
-YOCOS Electronics Co., Ltd
-Dizino Technology Co., Ltd
-Shenzhen Phoebe Technology Co., Ltd
-Sun Group
-China Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Co., Ltd
-Kodak
-Polariod
-SICONG Group
-YungFu
-Shenzhen AINA Technology Ltd
-Shenzhen DPF Electronics Co., Ltd
-Sungale
-SkyVision Electronics Co., Ltd
-KSMART
Report information: http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61792.
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