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.

Toshiba and Canon will start pilot production of SED displays in August at one of Canon’s facilities, and will move to full mass production in a dedicated facility in January of 2007.

It’s good to see that Toshiba is moving forward with this technology. The only downside is that it is expected to be quite expensive.

Link: Toshiba - Toshiba Selects Himeji as Candidate Site to Mass-Produce SED Panels