Stage Lighting Market Status and Development Trend Analysis

At the beginning stage of professional lighting in the early 90s of last century, the ubiquitous flowering of entertainment venues such as karaoke, KTV, song and dance halls, and the hot market of cultural performances directly led to the first rapid leap in this industry. Compared with professional audio, the technical content of stage lighting is relatively low, and the industry's threshold is relatively low. There are a large variety of stage lighting products and relatively low technological content. The manufacturers are widely distributed throughout the country.

Until about 2000, China's stage market is basically in a steady state of growth, and the market is in a period of adjustment. In recent years, energy-saving and green lighting have become one of the most concerned trends in the industry in recent years. LED lighting and control equipment, which are the most popular technologies in the world, have become targets of professional lighting manufacturers in China. At the same time, a group of leading enterprises are at the forefront of the industry and are marching into the emerging smart home industry.

Stage Lighting Market Status Analysis

With the improvement of people’s living standards, the requirements for the development of large-scale opera houses and the stage for the development of the culture and entertainment industries are getting higher and higher. The two major international events of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo and the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games have plagued China. It has also contributed to the purchase of stage lighting. The professional lighting market in China has been in a better period of development. From the aspect of application, many art designs in China have reached a high level, with adequate capital investment. Large-scale projects are frequent in the domestic stage lighting market, and the ability of companies to undertake projects is more demanding.

In many domestic large-scale exhibitions, many small and medium-sized enterprises are attracted to participate in the exhibition, and many new devices can also be seen. Foreign brands also focus on the Chinese market. On the one hand, the foreign market is not as good as it seems. There is a limited amount of product demand; on the other hand, China’s market demand is in a period of rapid rise, accompanied by the government’s policy on cultural industries. With drive and capital support, the purchase of stage performing arts equipment continues to flourish. As a result, a large number of foreign brands have poured into the Chinese market and strive to get a share. At the same time, domestic companies have also emerged from international booths, borrowed from the successful experience of foreign excellent brands, and continuously penetrated the international market through the exhibition.

Recalling the supply and purchase of domestic stage lighting market in 2009, moving headlights, LED lights and computer lights alternately occupy the top three positions.

Stage lighting export transformation and technical bottlenecks
The export situation of China’s products has also started its new phase after the financial crisis has suffered a severe setback. The rise in raw material prices has increased the manufacturing cost by about 20%. However, if the cost increases by 20%, the sales price of products is difficult to reach a 20% increase. The Chinese manufacturing cost advantage is no longer prominent. This has led many professional lighting exporters to switch from exporting to developing countries to exporting to Europe, the United States and other developed countries; from the production of highly-intensive labor and low-profit products to the production of independent intellectual property, high-tech, and high-value-added products. These changes have enabled the company's production scale, process control, quality management and other enterprise management levels to enter into a virtuous cycle of quantitative change to qualitative change.

With the continuous advancement of stage technology, lighting has become an important part of art, and superb lighting interpretation technology can bring more shocking visual impact to people. The global heat performance of “Avatar” makes people pursue the stage lighting. To the extreme, stage lighting design incorporates new art while better integrating with art. However, most professional lighting manufacturers in the country rely on OEMs. Compared with the rapid development of lighting technology, the development speed is far behind.

China's professional lighting since the introduction of the 90s, because professional lighting is not too high-end technology, technical barriers are low, according to different requirements of customers can be installed, domestic manufacturers of product technology does not exist much distance. Today, this has become the biggest bottleneck for professional lighting companies. There is a big gap between the product's R&D capability and innovation awareness and the high-end technology of stage lighting.

Intelligent lighting control technology

The development of control technology for professional stage lighting equipment began in the 15th century when European courts and aristocrats appreciated the performance of the show, and the subsequent invention of electric power produced a completely new change. The stage lighting control technology has gone through the original control technology stage, analog control technology stage, digital technology control stage, and intelligent networked control stage.

Nowadays, with the popularization of computer network technology, the network of lighting control systems has become increasingly sophisticated, and intelligent networked lighting control systems have become a trend. All lighting operation control equipment can be included in the studio or at the performance venues, including computer dimming consoles, computer effect light consoles, digital mechanical light consoles, electric boom consoles, laser consoles, color changer consoles, etc. Through the network workstations and controlled equipment, including dimming cabinets, computer effects lamps, mechanical lights, electric boom, laser lights, color changer, etc. connected together. They use TCPIP Ethernet network technology alone, or use TCPIP Ethernet and traditional DMX control technology to control the entire lighting system.

Numerous lighting manufacturers are developing and applying networked control systems, developing and introducing networked technology solutions with different features to demonstrate their own networked lighting control systems. After the success of the stage lighting control system, the multi-network integration technology was gradually applied to the building intelligent control system, and the lighting control entered a more extensive field.