Samsung says monitor market in decline

published 13 May 2009

The PC monitor market is in overall decline, according to Samsung.

At a press briefing, Ami Randhawa, product marketing manager for Samsung's display division told IT PRO that the monitor market has suffered a three per cent drop from this time last year.

Randhawa pinned the blame for this on a market shift away from desktop PCs towards laptops, resulting in reduced demand for dedicated monitors.

Randhawa said that despite the downturn, Samsung has actually increased its monitor market share in that time and was looking to take advantage of the shift to portables with its new Lapshift' displays.

These are designed to plug straight into notebooks and netbooks via USB and are powered by Ubisync, Samsung's name for DisplayLink - enabling a multiple display setup can be quickly set up.

Samsung is launching the SyncMaster LD220G and SyncMaster LD190G Lapfit monitors at 19in and 22in sizes, with a cost of 129 and 200 respectively. These feature a 16:9 aspect ratio with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 and 1,920 x 1,080 respectively.

Click here to read a review of a DisplayLink equipped monitor.

Benny Har-Even is a twenty-year stalwart of technology journalism who is passionate about all areas of the industry, but telecoms and mobile and home entertainment are among his chief interests. He has written for many of the leading tech publications in the UK, such as PC Pro and Wired, and previously held the position of technology editor at ITPro before regularly contributing as a freelancer.

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