Today's Best PC Monitor Deals At AdoramaJuly 2020

The price range of flatpanel monitors is from $51 to $7,874 and in total we found prices for 1040 flatpanel monitors. A new PC screen costs on average $423 and 80% of flatpanel monitors are priced between $100 and $850. The cheapest PC display that we found is the DELL E1912H at only $51, and the most expensive is the Sony PVM2551MD at $7,874.

We have analysed 12,805 expert reviews and 70,567 user reviews for flatpanel monitors and used this information to determine the average rating for each brand of LCD screen. The top rated PC screen brand is HP with an average rating of 86%. The second best brand is Samsung with 84% and the third best brand is LG with 83%.

Read more in our article what are the best PC monitor brands?

The biggest PC display retailer by number of products currently for sale is eBay. We found 988 current PC display offers from eBay. The second biggest retailer is Overstock with 217 offers. That means eBay is over 4 times bigger than Overstock when it comes to PC displays. Adorama is the third biggest retailer with 35 current offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying LCD screens. For each retailer it shows the total number of LCD screens where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying LCD screens. For each retailer we took all of their prices and looked at what proportion of those prices where the cheapest on the market. The cheapest retailer that we found was eBay. 813 of their PC monitor prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for PC displays by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of PC screen prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's PC screen prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 82.3% of their PC monitor prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

New flatpanel monitors drop in price by an average of 2% in the first 6 months after they were first released.

If you are prepared to wait then you could save an average of $9 on a typical $422 new PC screen by waiting 6 months before buying.

Read more in our article How quickly do PC monitors drop in price?

The most common period for new flatpanel monitors to be released in is between May and June. That means that most of the latest PC display technology was released in within the last 3 months, and now is good time to buy. June was the biggest month in 2019 for new LCD screens, with 56 new LCD screens released that month. In May 2018, 72 new LCD screens were released making it the biggest month that year for new PC display releases. 77 new PC monitors were released in September 2017 making it the biggest month that year for new flatpanel monitor releases.

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