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[Kleegamefan]

Just so you know, SED stands for Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display...

It is a type of FED (field-emission display) that, compared to plasmas and LCD tvs, is thinner (as shallow as 10mm.) super-fast response time (around 5ms) are *MUCH* more efficient electrically (They convert electrical energy to light with an emission efficiency of 5 lm/W or higher, resulting in energy consumption that is roughly one-half that of a large-screen CRT and about one-third that of a plasma display panel), 160 degree viewing angle and no light-fade...best of all, they should be cheaper than LCDs and Plasmas...

Best of all, FEDs have picture quality as good as the best CRTs and better than any LCD or Plasma (blacks and shadow detail especially)....in fact, FEDs are basically CRTs but instead of a single tube, the screen is made up of millions (or billions in the case of CNT FEDs) of tiny CRTs...

FEDs are the future of flat panels, IMO

At any rate, as you may or may not know, we are still a year or so away from seeing the Carbon-Nanotube versions of FEDs.....Toshiba's SEDs, while not using CNTs, will be very similar to the CNT FEDs you see from Motorola, Sony, Samsung, Fujitsu and others in the future....SEDs are a sneek preview, if you will...

CANON, TOSHIBA TO CREATE JOINT VENTURE FOR NEXT-GENERATION FLAT-SCREEN SED PANELS

TOKYO, September 14, 2004 -- Canon Inc. (President & CEO: Fujio Mitarai) and Toshiba Corporation (President & CEO: Tadashi Okamura) announced today that the two companies have agreed to establish a joint venture in October 2004 for the development, production and marketing of next-generation flat-screen SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) panels.

The SED, based on a new type of flat-panel display technology, was created through the merging of Canon's proprietary electron-emission and microfabrication technologies with Toshiba's cathode-ray-tube (CRT) technology and mass-production technologies for liquid crystal displays and semiconductors. Like conventional CRT televisions, the SED utilizes the collision of electrons with a phosphor-coated screen to emit light. Electron emitters, which correspond to an electron gun in a CRT television, are distributed in an amount equal to the number of pixels on the display. In addition to high brightness and high definition, the SED delivers exceptional overall image quality—fast video-response performance, high contrast, high gradation levels—and low power consumption.

Canon began research in the field of SED technology in 1986 and, in 1999, began joint development activities with Toshiba with the aim of commercializing an SED product. In light of the progress realized at this stage of the joint development process, Canon and Toshiba, deeming the timing appropriate, agreed upon the establishment of a joint venture. Plans for the new company call for the commercialization of SED panels primarily for large-screen flat-panel televisions, with production scheduled to begin in 2005. Following the initial launch, a mass-production factory will be readied and production volume will be increased.

The flat-panel TV segment is expected to continue displaying growth within the television market. Additionally, the advent of digital Hi-Vision broadcasting and next-generation DVDs, along with digital cameras and video camcorders, is expected to fuel the spread of high-definition, high-quality next-generation content. Amid these developments, Canon and Toshiba aim to firmly establish SED technology as a new type of flat-panel display ideally suited for the display of next-generation high-definition, high-quality images.

Overview of new company
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Company name: SED Inc.
Date of establishment: October 2004 (tentative)
Business activities: Development, production and marketing of SED panels
Address: 22-5 Tamura 9-chome, Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa
President: Shunichi Uzawa (now Canon Inc. director and Group Executive, SED Development Headquarters)
Capital: JPY 1,000.05 million at time of establishment
Equity structure: Canon: 50.002% / Toshiba: 49.998%
No. of employees: Approx. 300 (tentative, as of January 2005)

http://www.canon.com/technology/det...ce/sed_display/


Here are some pix of the Public Sample 36 inch-WXGA SED(production version will be widescreen 50 inch model):

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=26738

Here is a PQ trend comparison of Plasma vs. SED vs. LCD

Left : Plasma
Middle : SED
Right : LCD

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=26742


Here is the last shot


http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=26743


According to todays Yahoo article, Toshiba and Canon expect "to become the largest flat TV maker by 2010 by gaining a market share of between 20 and 30 percent"(I'm sure Sony, Motorola and Samsung will have something to say about that!!)

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/040914/kyodo/d853eqv00.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...nm/20040914/tc_nm/tech_japan_canon_toshiba_dc



Here are some more articles on FEDs if you are intrested:

http://optics.org/articles/news/8/7/29/1

http://www.atip.org/fpd/src/tutorial/fpd.html

http://www.llnl.gov/str/Perry.html


There is an SED roadmap floating around somewhere and some more pix too....I will see what I can dig up

 

[bishoptl]

....too soon?

 

[Kleegamefan]

I was in the process of moving it from the gaming forum to the OT forum...

now try to view the pix..

 

[bishoptl]

The first 4 links don't work.

The second yahoo link is displaying some shit about people being blown up overseas.

 

[pestul]

[general assy remark]What a letdown.. [/general assy remark]

 

[duderon]

Sounds like SEDs will be a good competitor to LCoS. Since SEDs use a CRT type of technology and LCoS is a branch off of LCD, are SEDs going to give a better picture quality? What about overall value?

 

[DaveH]

You're copying the links wrong, so that they're abreviated with the "..."

http://www.canon.com/technology/detail/device/sed_display/index.html
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?threadid=446156

 

[Kleegamefan]

I will fix them....give me a sec....

 

[OmniGamer]

*Plays Lottery so he can maybe afford this cool shit*

 

[Kleegamefan]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39166657,00.htm

http://news.com.com/Canon,+Toshiba+to+team+on+flat+panel+displays/2100-1041_3-5365469.html

 

[Nerevar]

*Plays Lottery so he can maybe afford this cool shit*

the point of these new technologies is to bring the price of these flat-panels down from the multi-thousand dollar price point they currently hover at (as well as improve image quality).

 

[SyNapSe]

the point of these new technologies is to bring the price of these flat-panels down from the multi-thousand dollar price point they currently hover at (as well as improve image quality).

It's apparently never happening. :\ I've been waiting for these big cheap HDTV type screens for a long time.

 

[pestul]

It's apparently never happening. :\ I've been waiting for these big cheap HDTV type screens for a long time.

And cheap meaning.. we want them for less than $1000!!!

 

[Kleegamefan]

And cheap meaning.. we want them for less than $1000!!!

Motorola claims their SEDs will be that cheap in 2006

Perfect timing with the arrival of XENON, PS3 and Revolution...

 

[OmniGamer]

the point of these new technologies is to bring the price of these flat-panels down from the multi-thousand dollar price point they currently hover at (as well as improve image quality).

Heh, don't make me bring up quotes about "Sub-$1,000 Carbon Nanotube HDTVs as early as Q2 2004!!!!!"...all of these updates have been one blue-ball inducing cocktease after another

 

[Kleegamefan]

In July of 2003 Motorola first announced thier NEDs Carbon Nanotube FEDs.

At that time they were saying 18-24 months from production so I don't know what the fuck *you* are talking about...

Go ahead and bring up the quotes of me saying Q2 2004...


I'll be waiting

 

[OmniGamer]

In July of 2003 Motorola first announced thier NEDs Carbon Nanotube FEDs.

At that time they were saying 18-24 months from production so I don't know what the fuck *you* are talking about...

Go ahead and bring up the quotes of me saying Q2 2004...


I'll be waiting

Touchy much? Winks go by unnoticed? Pop a pill and chill...my post was in reference to a thread titled "More Carbon Nanotube HDTV stuffs (due out as early as Q2 2004)". Don't act like I stepped on your brand new projector or something.

 

[Kleegamefan]

OK

 

[3phemeral]

OK

lol



It should be interesting to see how this thing develops. I've been telling all my friends and coworkers about the new tech, how cheap it will be, how much of a quality difference it should have over the current 'next generation' line of television sets. I can't wait to finally get my hands on one of these.

 

[Kleegamefan]

The 36-inch prototype shown is a WXGA unit (1,280×768 resolution) but the first TVs will be 50-inch 1080p products with 8500:1 contrast ratios!