And now for something completely different…Panasonic brings out the Space Player, an innovative type of lighting equipment which combines the functions of traditional lighting and video projection for interior and exterior spaces.

Space Player uses utilizes projected visuals for lighting in public spaces such as museums and retail applications. For example, the projection spotlight can spot light an object while projecting video or product descriptions onto the surrounding space.

Panasonic will even offer video content for the Space Player.

Unilumin debuts the world first 1.0mm LED display - UTV 1.0 at LED CHINA 2014 (nearly 80,000 professional visitors this year from 150 countries or regions).

“Unilumin has been dedicating to developing UTV1.0 since early 2013, why we constantly develop the UHD LED display is because it will help Unilumin to explore a new and huge market which is traditionally using LCD, PDP, DLP and projection technologies. These applications include emergency operations centers, oil & gas assets monitoring center, security/CCTV monitoring center, traffic management center, utilities NOCs, conference room and social media marketing NOCs,” according to Simon Wu, Unilumin Marketing Director.

“We already have done about 50 video wall projects for monitoring centers, TV studios, conference rooms using our current UTV1.9 and UTV2.5, these projects contribute much to our profit growth in 2013, so we think it deserves our constant efforts and the big investment on R&D.

Draper says it is taking projection screen technology another step into the future with the creation of TecVision Engineered Surface Technology, seen for the first time at ISE 2014

Available in 5 formulations to start, TecVision features white surfaces with gains ranging from 1.3 to 1.9 over wide-viewing cones for better off-axis viewing. Draper says these are better surfaces with lower and more consistent gloss levels for less distortion in the picture. TecVision surfaces also feature a light absorbing dark backing which prevents picture degradation from light behind the screen.

Draper points out “TecVision surfaces offer huge savings when compared to the costs of purchasing a projector with increased brightness."

Worldwide shipments of front projectors grew year-on-year by 6% to 2.12 million units in Q4 2013, representing $2.63 billion in value, according to research by Futuresource Consulting.

Eastern Europe enjoyed the greatest year-on-year quarterly growth where 151,000 units were shipped during Q4 2013, a 12% increase from the year before. The end of a temporary diversion of government funding for infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympics allowed Russia to resume its high sell-in volumes, with a total of 780,300 units shipped - a 10% year-on-year increase. Most of this volume went into the education sector and high sell-in is expected to continue for the short term. EU member states in Eastern Europe also enjoyed growth not only due to the Q4 retail period but also as a result of using up the remainder of their 2007-2013 EU budget.

The Middle East and Africa saw only modest growth in Q4 2013 with 139,000 units shipped, a 1% year-on-year growth. This was due to education projects in Saudi Arabia and UAE failing to come to fruition. However, the MEA region remains a strong opportunity long term due to its low penetration.