Computer display prices may rise
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 8, 2007 at 3:17pm
The price of LCD panels for notebooks and desktop displays has been on the rise since April, though the increase hasn’t yet been passed on to consumers. CNET notes that this could change very soon, according to a new report from iSuppli.
Though LCD television prices have stabilized, monitor prices are far more volatile right now, the research group says. As an example, the average price for a 15-inch notebook display has inched up from $90 to $108 between April and September, according to iSuppli. But during that time, monitor prices didn’t go up even as panels did,eating into the margins of monitor manufacturers.
“We’re now reaching a point where profit margin for the monitor supply is really being impacted,” Sweta Dash, director of LCD and projection research at iSuppli, told CNET.
“So already some monitor suppliers are starting to increase their prices $10 to $20.”
Considering the already tight supply (from a backlog of product in the spring), prices have almost nowhere to go but up, the article adds.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
