Sales of LCD monitors for the first time fell by the end of the year.

In the fourth quarter of 2008 was sold for 7.4 percent less than LCD monitors, as in the previous quarter. Earlier, fourth-quarter sales will not be lower than sales of the third quarter. This was reported in a study of DisplaySearch.
In the fourth quarter of 2008 the world was sold to 39.6 million LCD monitors. Over the last three months of 2007 in the world have sold 43 million of these displays.
Most of the demand for LCD monitors dropped in the United States. For 2008, sales of displays in the country declined by 24 percent. In the EMEA region, including Europe, Middle East and Africa, the decline was 16 percent. During the same period, sales in China, LCD displays have grown by 26 percent.
Negative dynamics of sales in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with the third quarter, showed all the leading manufacturers of LCD monitors. For example, Samsung sales fell by four per cent, Dell - 13 per cent, LG - ten per cent.