Coming In Two Weeks: The next issue of ChannelLine Champs Vendor/Distributor Preference Survey 2003 examines Canada's presentation market, i.e. projectors and scanners. We'll be looking at what the key vendors are doing from a product and channel perspective, including but not limited to the five companies being evaluated by our readers - Epson, HP, InFocus, Logitech and Microsoft.
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MARCH 05, 2003 Vol 6, Issue 2  
Our biggest challenge will be maintaining the revenue, especially with the price erosion as high as 30 per cent within a quarter and on top of that, the competition is very intense and the optical drive is now very much a commodity product.

Royson Ng, president of Markham, ON-based distributor Samtack Computer Inc.
All eyes on optical market
LG Electronics is not only the dominant vendor in the Canadian optical drive market, it's also the preferred vendor, beating out second-place Pioneer, Sony, Samtack and BenQ in the latest ChannelLine Champs survey.

Optical market going ballistic
Vendor expectations are high for the Canadian optical CD/DVD drive market, but competition is making this a commodity market, with one segment, DVDRs, predicted to experience severe pricing pressure over the next six months.

Vendors clamour for channel support
New technologies, new products and intense competition make Canada's surging optical drive market a challenging one for the channel, but vendors say there's a lot of money to be made on both the drives and the media.

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