First ever quarter-to-quarter dip in LCD TV panel shipments Editor | 05-10-2013 In what is said to be for the first time ever, the global LCD TV panel market suffered a quarter on quarter fall in shipments for Q3 2013, according to a new LCD Market Tracker report from HIS.And making this unprecedented event more worrying, said the analyst, was that it happened in what is normally a strong period of the year.In a preliminary estimate IHS calculated that worldwide LCD TV panel shipments during the third quarter of 2013 amounted to 58.0 million units, down from 58.8 million in the second quarter. In the quarter 12 months earlier, shipments totalled 60.0 million, up markedly from 54.5 million during Q2 2012.