Home Audio and Cinema

Home audio and cinema in China is characterised by its maturity, which is evident in its stable to declining retail volume sales and stable brand ranking. Foreign players Philips, Samsung and Sansui are expected to maintain their leading positions in…

Retail volume sales in home audio and cinema have been declining since 2017, although the lockdowns in 2020, which encouraged financially stable German consumers to invest in home audio and cinema equipment, limited the extent of the decline in this…

Home audio and cinema is expected to register a slight increase in volume and current value sales in 2022. With inflation creeping up, players offer promotions in order to support volume sales. Hi-Fi systems are expected to register the highest…

The growing number of audio alternatives continues to dampen demand for home audio and cinema in 2022. Digital media player docks is once again set to see the weakest performance in 2022 in retail volume terms due to more advanced options being…

Home audio and cinema is set to see a continued significant decline in sales in 2022. The category continues to suffer from substitution by portable devices and more modern alternatives. Changing lifestyles, which are increasingly mobile, continue to…

Technological advances in sound devices at home, such as wireless speakers, have been negatively affecting the popularity and performances of some categories in the Brazilian market for years, such as audio separates, digital media player docks,…

Home audio and cinema in Chile is a category that is being increasingly replaced by products with greater technological capacity. This has significantly reduced its overall size, a trend that was already emerging prior to the review period.…

Retail current value sales in home audio and cinema saw slight growth in 2021, and this trend is set to continue in 2022. However, retail volume sales saw a slight decline in 2021, with this trend also set to continue in 2022. Home audio and cinema…

The rise in demand seen in home audio and cinema in the review period has been attributed to pandemic-induced home seclusion and the popularity of direct-to-home film releases supported by streaming service providers such as Netflix and Disney+.…

Home audio and cinema has been losing ground in recent years as the consumption of entertainment moves online in Romania. With the soaring popularity of streaming services like Spotify and YouTube Music, Romanians have fewer incentives to use home…

Volume sales of home audio and cinema are in long-term decline and they continued to shrink during 2022, with further declines expected over the forecast period. Most home audio and cinema products have long been considered redundant and only…

Home audio and cinema sub-categories such as audio separates, Hi-Fi systems, digital media player docks and speakers, continue to face competition from multifunctional devices such as smartphones, headphones, televisions, sound bars and wireless…

The overall home audio and cinema retail volume sales will record a marginal decline in 2022 as the difficult economic conditions and rising prices reduce consumer demand. The decline is being driven by hi-fi systems and speakers, both of which will…

During 2020 and 2021, demand for home audio and cinema was supported by the fact that local consumers were spending more time at home and thus more willing to spend money on home entertainment. However, this was largely offset by the economic shock…

Home audio and cinema overall is in decline in 2022, for the tenth consecutive year. Portability continues to stand as the most desirable feature for consumers, thus supporting growth of smaller and more convenient devices such as wireless speakers.…

Home audio and cinema is continues to face challenges in 2022, following the previous sales boost seen during the era of pandemic lockdowns. In 2022, as in 2021, one of the reasons for this is an organic drop in sales following the spike, along with…

At the end of the review period, home audio and cinema suffered further drops in demand for specific audio devices as music consumption continued to shift to laptops, smartphones and wireless speakers. In-home consumer electronics experienced some…

Home audio and cinema is expected to register volume and value decline for the second year in a row. Households are getting smaller in Hungary, and as a result, living space is also getting smaller. Therefore, there is a growing preference for…

Within home audio and cinema, the largest category of home cinema and speaker systems has benefited the most from pandemic-related home seclusion in South Korea. Retail volume sales rose by double digits in 2020, followed by high single-digit growth…

Both retail constant value sales (2022 prices) and retail volume sales of home audio and cinema continued their long-term decline during 2022. Hi-Fi systems and home cinema and speaker systems dominate this category. However, demand in both of these…