The Asia/Pacific PC monitor market has undergone a major shift to LCDs, and both traditional monitor vendors and PC vendors are trying to differentiate their LCD offerings. Even as the LCD replacement market grows, PC monitor volumes are also being stimulated by bundles with new usage models, such as monitors attached with thin clients, diskless PCs, multiple displays, and bundles with notebooks. Established for more than 10 years and led by dedicated analysts in each country, IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker® provides timely and critical market intelligence that is essential for strategic and tactical planning of the PC monitor market in the region. It is the only study of the monitor market spanning so many countries in the Asia/Pacific region. This product captures, analyzes, and factors channel shifts, end-user uptake, vendor tactics, price undercutting, large local projects/tenders, and attractive bundles and promotions, all done at the ground level by IDC's expert analysts.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurements for this tracker are in shipments and end-user revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Form factor: CRT and LCD
• Market: Bundled versus non-bundled
• Aspect type: Widescreen and non-widescreen
• Others: Interface, backlight, and aspect ratio

Segmentations:

• Channels: Dealer, direct, distributor, PC vendor, retailer, and others
• Segment: Consumer and commercial
• Size: By inch

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, PRC, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the rest of Asia/Pacific)

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly and include two years of quarterly forecasts and an additional three years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the country level. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Unit and end-user value forecasts by form factor, aspect type, size, backlight, and market (bundled and non-bundled)

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Preliminary data: Week 6 after period closes
• Historical data: Week 8 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 10 after period closes