LCD Display Costs Expected to Drop 62% by 2008

[Audioholics]

<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in flat panel display (FPD) market research and consulting, has developed a new report which reveals current and future panel costs, material prices, depreciation, yields, panel prices, and profit margins for LCD monitor and LCD TV panels. DisplaySearch's new Quarterly TFT LCD Cost Forecast Report with Annual Projections provides the costs of TFT LCD manufacturing from 2004-2008 for seven different substrate sizes ranging from 730 x 920 mm to 2160 x 2460 mm for eight different panel sizes, including 15", 17", and 19" LCD monitor modules and 26", 32", 37" and 40" and 42" LCD TV modules. Costs are expected to fall as much as 62% from 2005 to 2008, supporting significant growth in the LCD monitor and LCD TV markets.</FONT></P><P><FONT face=Arial size=2>[Read More]</FONT></P>

 

[steinoch]

$3699 down to $1405 for 42" HD LCD. Not bad!

My guess is the larger screen monitors will not see this drop. While the 17" to 22" displays will become quite cheap. The number sold, of the smaller displays, for homes and for the work place will allow for large profits by volume. But we can only hope that this translates into inexpensive(not cheap) large screen monitors.

Impatiently waiting!