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more about #sed more comments → Mandatory_Field: That's a real shame: FED and SED are the advanced TV tech I've been waiting for for more than 10 years now. I'm site it would scale to large sets more... more » baltwade: If SEDs would have come out two years ago, like they were suppose to, they might have been able to grab a small portion of the HDTV market, but they'v... more » Stem_Sell: Enough SED... more » Gann: What is SED? What is SED-alternative? more » -
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Canon Clear to Resurrect SED Technology But Might Not
Remember SED? It's a display technology that promised to be as thin as LCD and as beautiful as CRT. Dropping jaws during 2006 press demonstrations, SED has since been buried by lawsuits. Now it's back, maybe. -
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Canon to Make Their Own SED Super-Display Technology
To get around IP lawsuits, Canon plans on developing their own SED technology that works better than the type they're being sued over. [Bloomberg] -
#gadgets
What Do You Guys (and Gals) Want to Read About?
NOTICE: By not reading this article, your sexual organs will fall to the floor—where they will get that nasty layer of dirt that something can only get by falling to the floor. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
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Judge Screws Over Canon, Delays SEDs Further
Last time we tuned into the SED soap opera, Canon was buying Toshiba's stake in the joint SED venture cause Nano-Proprietary, a company that licensed its display tech to Canon, was crying foul over the fact that Canon shared their secret sauce with Toshiba. Well, a judge has now ruled in favor of Nano, saying that yeah, Canon screwed up and they owe Nano certain "damages." So what's this all mean? Sadly, no SEDs for us. At least not until they settle this entire mess. And we wouldn't care if not for the fact that SEDs promised 1ms response times and insane contrast ratios at affordable prices. More » -
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Canon Buys Toshiba's Stake in SED
Canon and Toshiba are going their separate ways in what was their joint SED-based venture. The reason? It seems that Nano-Proprietary, a Texas-based company which licensed technology to Canon, is crying foul over the fact that Canon is sharing Nano's technology with Toshiba. As a result, Canon is telling Toshiba to fork over their 50% stake in their SED venture, making it a one-company project. It's uncertain how this is gonna play out in the long run, although Canon insists they'll still produce the displays for the fourth quarter of 2007. But between their previous delays and their skipping CES, it just sounds like SED is heading the way of vaporware. More » -
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Why SED Isn't Appearing at CES 2007
After Toshiba dropped their SED displays for CES '07, most of us were wondering whether SED was going to be super-delayed or just vaporware. Toshiba's president, however, sheds some light on why they've bumped the upcoming technology from CES. More » -
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Toshiba Cans SED Debut for CES
I'm tempted to start calling SED TVs the year's top vaporware. First they left us hanging at CEDIA and then just as things started to look promising, comes news (via a dear John letter sent to the press) that says there won't be any SED panels for us to fawn over at next year's CES. Why the cruelty, Toshiba? More » -
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55-inch SED Teases Home Theater Fans Across the World
We're waiting for the day SEDs go full force, but in the meantime Canon and Toshiba have taken the wraps off a 55-inch SED panel. The display has an insanely high 100,000:1 contrast ratio that dwarfs the contrast ratio found in today's plasmas and LCDs. SEDs as we've said before, combine the best of CRTs (super high contrast ratios, quick response time) and LCDs (thin panels, power efficient). We'd gladly trade our 42-incher for this sucker. More » -
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CEDIA 2006: SED Where Are You?
This is by no means official, but according to my hours of Internet browsing, SED technology is not at CEDIA 2006. You may remember SED from our posts during CES this year. It's built upon the foundations of phosphorus televisions, but Canon and Toshiba basically packed all that technology into each pixel of a flat-panel. The result is supposed to be the best thing ever and we were supposed to have it by now. Dinner is getting cold and I've finished the wine. No, the flowers aren't helping and don't even think about kissing me. -
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He SED, She SED
There has been a good deal of debate and speculation about the SED displays shown at CES this year. This article, which includes a video demo of the displays from Vegas and an interview with someone from Canon about the technology, should help clear some things up. Obviously the digitized version of this is hardly going to do SED justice, but at least you'll get to hear the narrator's script—which sounds a lot like one of those great 1950s stereo demo tracks ("this is the left channel, this is the right channel..."). More » -
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Latest Display Technology: SED
LCD, LED, HDTV, plasma, they don
t have anything compared to the latest and greatest display technology that should begin appearing next year. The next big thing is called Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display, or SED for short. Basically it combines the terrific contrast, responsiveness and sharpness of conventional CRT monitors with the power efficiency, size, and thickness of LCDs or Plasmas. Like any new display technology, it will probably cost an arm and a leg.
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More Flat Panel Choices in 2006
Just figured out the difference between LCD and plasma? We in the tech journo field have spent the last couple of years trying to give you the tools you need to buy the best flat panel TV set as well as figure out all their differences, pros and cons. But it looks like all our jobs are going to get just a little bit harder next year with the launch of a new flat panel technology called SED. A partnership between Canon and Toshiba, SED is being touted as "the holy grail" of flat screen TVs, mixing all the best traits of what's out there now. Images are sharp and clear, like LCD, while power consumption is low and viewing angle is wide. And the images on the screen are being compared to what you'd get from a CRT TV (which is still the best, though bulky and old-fashioned looking). The technology itself, which stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display, consists of electrons fired from the back of the set colliding with a phosphor-coated screen to emit light, almost like CTVs. And instead of just three electron guns, it uses one for each pixel on the display (which comes to hundreds of thousands electron emitters). What makes it flat is the ability to place these emitters nearer to the front of the TV. Look for the first 55-inch SED TV to be on the market by spring (hopefully here in the US as well as in Japan), though whether the companies will see profits is anyone's guess, especially since plasma TVs are finally coming down in price and LCDs are sure to follow substantially in the next year.
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