According to WitsView, January ended with 64.07 million units worldwide

Feb 20, 2014 15:55 GMT  ·  By

January is never a great month for companies that produce things, because the first quarter of every year is a period of rest and low buying tendencies for everyone, following the holidays.

The large-panel display market always seems to suffer particularly much, and January 2014 was no different.

TVs and monitors are always among the things that drop in sales the most in the slow season.

According to WitsView, January ended with 64.07 million large-panel shipments, which was a 13% on-month drop.

Tablet panel shipments fell even more, by 20%, as vendors entered an inventory adjustment phase that had them reduce orders.

In February, demand is expected to fall even further, by 10% or so, 5% for TVs. As for Monitor and notebooks, they will falter by 3% and 8%, respectively. Maybe this means that we'll be seeing a general (and likely hushed up) price cut for all large-panel displays, since that's what usually happens after a demand drop. We can only hope.