Tag: PC monitors

Margins rise on desktop monitors

Posted on December 12, 2014 by - News

LCDscreenAverage selling prices (ASPs) of desktop monitors rose by 10 percent in the third quarter of 2014.

Displaysearch, which tracks such things and has now been taken over by HIS, said worldwide shipments in the quarter fell by over three percent and accounted for 34 million units.

Manufacturers will try and reverse that trend by offering bigger sizes and better features.  Those features will include better performance, higher quality displays and better resolutions.

PC display sizes have steadily increases with market share for 20-inch and greater units rising from 60 percent in the third quarter of 2013 to 64 percent in the third quarter of this year.

And monitors with full high definition (FHD) and better resolutions grew from 48 percent in Q3 last year to 56 percent this last third quarter.

Other features that have shown an increase include wide viewing angle technology.

Displaysearch said that the average selling price of monitors was $171 in Q3 2014, compared to $155 in Q3 2013.

Another report from Taiwanese analysts earlier this week predicted prices will decline in 2015 as manufacturing volumes increase.

Dell rules the PC monitor roost

Posted on September 18, 2014 by - News, Products

Dell logoPC monitor unit shipments amounted to 32.5 million units in the second quarter of this year – and that’s a fall of 2.9 percent compared to the year before.

IDC released findings on the quarter, said that tendency will continue over the next three years.

But LCD technology had a 93 percent market share in the second quarter, an increase of 10.5 percent compared to the same quarter a year before.

The favoured screen size is 21.x-inches, and had a market share of 22.5 percent in the quarter.

While touch screen monitors continue to hold only a tiny part of the total PC monitor share of 0.4 percent, there was stronger growth in the USA than in other markets.

Dell managed to stay number one in the quarter, with market share of 15.4 percent, representing five million units.

Samsung, at number two, had a 17.9 percent share in market value. In revenue terms, it was number one, shipping $1.04 billion wrth of units in the quarter.

HP is the number three worldwide, but held the number one position in Western Europe, and the number two position in the US.