SED

does anyone have an idea when SED TV will be available in stores??

"Santo" wrote in message
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does anyone have an idea when SED TV will be available in stores??

According to a lot of industry observers, never.

On Jun 21, 2:19 pm, "dave gower" wrote:
"Santo" wrote in message

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does anyone have an idea when SED TV will be available in stores??

According to a lot of industry observers, never.

Next at bat...Laser Tv....

Why?

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:19:11 -0400, "dave gower"
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"Santo" wrote in message
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snip

According to a lot of industry observers, never.

Just found this, maybe we'll see the first ones hit the market this
Chistmas... or at least in Japan anyway.

P R E S S R E L E A S E

Toshiba and Canon Announce SED Launch Plan

Tokyo, March 8, 2006 — Toshiba Corporation and Canon Inc. today
announced that they will start the first stage of mass production of
SED panels in July 2007 and launch SED TVs in the 4Q of calendar year
2007. SED, the Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display, is a
next-generation flat-panel display that offers excellent performance
characteristics.

The market for flat-panel TVs is expected to see continued high growth
within the overall television market, with demand receiving a
significant impetus from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and from the global
shift from analogue to digital broadcasting. Toshiba and Canon see the
popularity of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as an opportunity to
strongly promote SED TVs.

Toshiba and Canon consider the launch of SED TVs to be a major
industry milestone, a once-in-50-years historical turning point for
the TV industry, comparable to the initial introduction of CRT
television. The companies will maximize the technology's
characteristics in order to resist commoditization and to establish
SED TV as the technology of choice for high-definition,
high-image-quality television viewing.

"Jonathan Brisby" wrote in message
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Why?


Patent fights between the principals. Look up deets at www.engadget.com and
search for SED.

Very sad...

steveo

That is a 2006 press release. Search for more recent ones from some
months ago where Canon announced they would be delaying starting even
low rate production of SED TVs for the professional display market
indefinitely. Besides the patent issues, the start-up costs for SED
production may be too high to be able to compete with the falling prices
& improving picture quality of LCDs and Plasmas.

OLED is likely to be the display technology that will eventually
replace LCD and plasmas in 5 to 8 years. Maybe.

Alan F


Jonathan Brisby wrote:
Just found this, maybe we'll see the first ones hit the market this
Chistmas... or at least in Japan anyway.

P R E S S R E L E A S E

Toshiba and Canon Announce SED Launch Plan

Tokyo, March 8, 2006 — Toshiba Corporation and Canon Inc. today
announced that they will start the first stage of mass production of
SED panels in July 2007 and launch SED TVs in the 4Q of calendar year
2007. SED, the Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display, is a
next-generation flat-panel display that offers excellent performance
characteristics.

The market for flat-panel TVs is expected to see continued high growth
within the overall television market, with demand receiving a
significant impetus from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and from the global
shift from analogue to digital broadcasting. Toshiba and Canon see the
popularity of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as an opportunity to
strongly promote SED TVs.

Toshiba and Canon consider the launch of SED TVs to be a major
industry milestone, a once-in-50-years historical turning point for
the TV industry, comparable to the initial introduction of CRT
television. The companies will maximize the technology's
characteristics in order to resist commoditization and to establish
SED TV as the technology of choice for high-definition,
high-image-quality television viewing.

"Jonathan Brisby" wrote in message
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Why?

mfg cost

the current process costs too much to compete with LCD

"Jonathan Brisby" wrote in message
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Just found this, maybe we'll see the first ones hit the market this
Chistmas... or at least in Japan anyway.

There is newer news... 2007 plans cancelled

Toshiba has dropped out after a law suit from the California company that
owns the technology and the factory they were building must be re-engineered
to lower costs.

"RSweeney" wrote

.... the current process costs too much to compete with LCD

SED has always been touted as a high-end product, and therefore presumably
larger sizes. Micro-displays are therefore their most serious current
competition. With excellent 60 inch 1080p sets now selling under $3000 U.S.
that's a killer.