San Juan Capistrano, California, USA – May 30, 2014. PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website.

For more than 16 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading North American projector dealers, retailers, web resellers and distributors. Their Tracking Service family of monthly reports offers timely data and analysis on unit sales, true volume-weighted street prices, and inventories of front projectors for these channels.

Each month, PMA Research posts the “Top 5” Projector Lists for the following product categories:

High-End Projectors – This “Top 5″ list is compiled from data collected from PMA’s monthly Pro AV Projector Tracking Service panel, which is made up of North American dealers and integrators. For High-End projectors, NEC took top honors in April with the best-selling NP-PA600X. Hitachi followed with a pair of projectors – the CP-WX4022WN and the CP-X4015WN coming in second and third, respectively. Optoma’s EH500 took the fourth spot for high-end projectors, and Vivitek’s D963HD rounded out this “Top 5” list.

Home Entertainment Projectors – This “Top 5″ list is compiled from data collected from PMA’s monthly Retail Projector Tracking Service panel, which is made up of North American retailers and web resellers. For Home Entertainment projectors, the April results showed BenQ with the number one selling model, the BenQ W1070, for the fourth month in a row. BenQ also filled the number four spot with the W1080ST. Epson filled the number two spot with the PowerLite Home Cinema 500 Silver. Optoma had a pair of projectors make the top home entertainment projector list with the HD131XE and HD25e filling the number three and five spot, respectively.

Mainstream Projectors – This “Top 5″ list is compiled from data collected from PMA’s monthly Distributor Projector Tracking Service panel, which is made up of North American distributors. For the Mainstream segment, NEC took top honors with the best-selling NP-VE281X. Epson followed with a pair of projectors, the PowerLite 97 and the PowerLite X17, in the number two and number three spots, respectively. InFocus rounded out this “Top 5” list with the IN114 coming in fourth and the IN112a in the fifth spot.

Resellers, distributors, manufacturers, and the press are invited to visit PMA’s site each month at www.pmaresearch.com  to see the 5 Top Selling projectors for these categories, as well as new product blogs and information on PMA Research’s projector market research offerings.

 About PMA Research

PMA Research specializes in worldwide front projector market information, including High-End projectors, Mainstream projectors, and Pico and Personal projectors.

Their Industry Service family of publications provides detailed worldwide quarterly updates (sell-in data and forecasts) on front projector markets, and biennial Web surveys of North American dealers and end users (including organizations and individual consumers). Their Tracking Service family of monthly reports offers timely sell-through data and analysis on unit sales, true volume-weighted street prices, and inventories of front projectors sold by leading North American retailers, resellers, and distributors.

PMA Research was formerly Pacific Media Associates, which was established by Dr. William Coggshall. Dr. Coggshall was a co-founder of Dataquest (now part of Gartner) and helped start the syndicated high-tech market information business. PMA Research has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company’s US headquarters is located at 25852 Avenida Cabrillo, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. Phone: +1 (949) 493-4601.  www.pmaresearch.com