He Said She SED
[Update: according to DigiTimes, Toshiba and Canon plan to start producing displays in August, with products hitting the market in March]
Toshiba and Canon are working on another next-generation flat panel display type. It’s called SED which stands for “surface-conduction electron-emitter display”. Remember those old-fashioned CRTs? Look great, but big and bulky? Well, an SED is much like a CRT except that where the CRT had one (or three) guns at the back of the display shooting electrons at the phosphorous screen, an SED has “guns” called “electron-emitters” for every pixel. And they’re a lot closer to the pixel too, so that the screen can be much thinner. SED displays have all the display-quality advantages of CRT, and the convenience advantages of LCD and plasma. If Toshiba and Canon can make this work, this would be a good thing for consumers. We’ll see soon, because Toshiba wants to launch an SED television this year.
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August 10th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
[…] Toshiba has selected a site for manufacturing of its advanced SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) displays - Himeji Operations, its production facility in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan. You’ll remember that SED displays offer the best of the plasma and CRT worlds, providing the thin form factor of plasma displays and the picture quality of CRTs. […]