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		03 Exceed Your Vision A Word of Introduction from Mr Koichi Kubota, Chief Executive, Visual Instruments Operations Division, Seiko Epson Corporation 04 Market Analysis ROI More Important Than Ever Futuresource Upbeat on High End Projection Sector 05 The Forward March of 3LCD Smaller, finer, better… Epson’s TFT Micro-displays Never Cease to Improve 06 The Groundbreaker Epson’s EB-Z8000 Series – the New Flagship Interview with Yasunori Ogawa, General Manager, Planning & Design Department, and Akihiro Ozasa, Product Marketing Manager at Seiko Epson Corporation 08 Adding New Value for European Pro-AV Installers Face to face with Epson’s EMEA Product Manager, Business Projectors, Vincent van Rij 10 Bold Images in the Belgian Night Colour and light is added to the drive home, thanks to an innovative project powered by Epson projectors 11 Conclusion: Into the High Brightness Installation Market By Gérard Lefebvre, Publisher • Glossary

Exceed Your Vision
A Word of Introduction from Mr Koichi Kubota, Chief Executive, Visual Instruments Operations Division, Seiko Epson Corporation

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The Repositioning of a Japanese Giant

As always, Cleverdis is working as your “radar”, scanning the market for upcoming movements that will affect your business.
In this case, we believe there will be a major impact from Epson’s decision to further expand its projector range boldly into the Installation Pro-AV market, with the launch in 2008 of the EB-G5000 series, and now, with the release of a high-powered ultra fine resolution (WUXGA) flagship model: the EB-Z8000 WU (employing inorganic LCD panels). This move is important not so much from the point of view that a new player is entering the installation Pro-AV market, but from the fact that the company doing so is Epson. Already number one worldwide in the projector market in general, Epson’s strengths had, until last year, primarily been in the fields of corporate, small business, education and home entertainment. The introduction of the EB-G5000 series has created a splash, as AV installers found new solutions such as multi-projection installations that until then had been financially unviable. To this end, we present in this SPECIALreport, an example of a new installation using this series. With dual lamp technology and up to 7,000 lumens brightness, the introduction of the EB-Z8000 series will, we believe create a number of new opportunities for installers in the installation Pro-AV segment, due to Epson’s specific positioning of this model which has a number of new, unique features. In addition, Epson is underlining its dedication to the development of stronger Pro-AV channel support.

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