2026年上半年,中国智能投影仪市场售出205.6万台,同比下降26.0%,营收为33.4亿元人民币——按当前汇率折合不到4.7亿美元——同比下降27.0%。数据来自北京研究机构 RUNTO 并且涵盖除激光电视外的渠道销售。这也标志着连续第九个季度的同比下降:下滑始于2024年第二季度,至今未止。今年第二季度销量跌破百万台,这是自2022年以来首次单季度跌破这一门槛。

对于一个五年前在中国消费电子领域增长最响亮的品类来说,这是一次硬着陆。而由于中国是全球大多数平价投影机的设计、规格和定价之地,那里的动向往往大约两个季度后就会出现在亚马逊和欧洲零售市场上。

市场在缩水,同时也在向高端挺进

RUNTO数据中更有趣的是构成比例。低于500流明的型号仍占销量57.5%,但这一份额一年内下降了14.9个百分点。其余区间均有增长:500至1000流明区间上涨6.6个百分点,1000至1500流明区间上涨10.0个百分点,甚至罕见的3000流明以上细分市场也上升了1.6个百分点。分辨率也呈现同样趋势——全高清仍占据约60%的市场,而4K UHD达到14.7%的销量占比,上升3.6个百分点。

这里同时发生着两件事。那些只想拥有一台廉价投影仪的买家,已经在2020到2023年间购入,且无意更换。留下的买家是关心开灯时画质是否能保持的人,而他们正被推销着与去年价格点大致相同的更亮机型。这就是一个市场停止增长、开始成熟的标志。

One caveat travels with those brightness bands, and it matters more outside China than inside it. Entry-level single-chip LCD projectors in the Chinese market are routinely quoted in a house lumen figure that has no relationship to ANSI or ISO measurement — a machine advertised at 800 “lumens” frequently measures under 200 by either standard. Some of the upward drift in the brightness mix is real engineering. Some of it is a specification arms race with no referee.

The long tail is dying at home and thriving abroad

随着市场萎缩,集中度在上升。RUNTO数据显示,线上十大品牌的销量占比超过70%,营收占比超过85%,均高于去年同期,线上渠道占整个市场的80%以上。在增长的市场中,一百个无名品牌可以共存;但在下滑四分之一的市场中,分销和售后需要成本,只有规模才能承担,尾部品牌就被淘汰了。

然而,尾部并未消失——它选择了“移民”。看看亚马逊当前美国投影机畅销榜,前二十名几乎被在中国零售市场几乎毫无存在感的品牌占据: Magcubic, HAPPRUN, AuKing, CiBest, WiMiUS, ONOAYO, 一串不断轮换的五字母店名,售卖价格在30到100美元之间的1080p LCD投影机。这些来自同一批工厂、同一批面板和同一条供应链,中国国内市场正在淘汰它们,转而导向一个价格仍然决定胜负、品牌认知几乎不存在的市场。

The established names are making the same move with better products. XGIMI, JMGO, Hisense and Dangbei have all spent the past two years pushing harder into the United States and Europe, and the results show in what those markets now get: triple-laser gimbal projectors like the JMGO N1S Ultra 4K 在1,499美元的价位,这在2023年可能要花两倍的钱,而且1000流明的便携机型还带有授权的Netflix,价格却相当于过去只能买到300流明、还需侧载应用的盒子。特别是Dangbei,其海外产品线主打亮度和开箱即用的流媒体授权,而不是国内的价格战,这比单纯压价更能形成持久的出口优势。

九个季度连续下滑究竟意味着什么

It is tempting to read the numbers as the projector losing to the television, and there is something to that — 100-inch LCD panels in China now sell for less than a mid-range projector cost two years ago, and a television needs no dark room. But the data does not show buyers abandoning big screens. It shows them refusing to buy a bad one twice.

在收缩市场中增长的部分,正是投影仪仍能完成电视无法做到的事情的领域:在租住的公寓里投射出120英寸的画面、可折叠装进包袋、可对准天花板。这些依赖亮度和安装条件,而这正是资金和工程投入所转向的方向。RUNTO预计全年销量将再次下滑,低亮度入门机型短期内仍占多数,而制造商正将更多中亮度机型推入1000元价位区间。

For anyone shopping outside China, the practical read is simpler. The pressure that is squeezing margins in Shenzhen is the reason a $500 projector in 2026 does what a $900 one did in 2024, and the reason the cheapest end of the Amazon listings has become an unreadable soup of invented brightness claims. Both of those trends have the same cause, and neither is going to reverse while the home market is still falling.