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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