Canon and Toshiba have been working on their surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) technology for several years now, and have demonstrated it recently at CES 2006. This new TV display panel approach looks promising and may well give pause to manufacturers of LCD and Plasma screens over the next few years. Although they are not yet available, SED-based TVs are flat like LCD and plasma panels, but offer a number of advantages over them.
According to Canon and Toshiba, SED bests both LCD and Plasma in the areas of image fidelity, contrast, power consumption and pixel response time. If so, it looks like there will not be much left for LCD & Plasma to compete over, except maybe price. SED production will begin this year and Canon/Toshiba expect to be profitable by 2010.
SED now joins that alphabet soup of electronic display acronyms, namely CRT, DLP, LCD, PDP, OLED, FED, LCoS, 3LCD, etc.
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Hopefully the price will be competitive enough so the average consumer sees SED television as a real alternative.<br />
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Also, I believe the 100,000:1 contrast ratio tops anything out there.<br />
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Can’t Wait, Cant Wait. Ready to move my new plasma to the bedroom so i can put this baby in my entertainment or living. As long the price is competitive.<br />
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This seems to be the next big thing, not sure if television can any better then this. 100,000:1 WOWW!!!!
Can’t Wait, Cant Wait. Ready to move my new plasma to the bedroom so i can put this baby in my entertainment or living. As long the price is competitive.<br />
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This seems to be the next big thing, not sure if television can any better then this. 100,000:1 WOWW!!!!
I think SED will reign supreme in the world of televisions sometime soon.