Thursday, June 2, 2005
Toshiba and Canon Place Big Bets on SED TVs
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 09:00 AM
"Toshiba and Canon are investing $1.7 billion to build a factory that will make panels for a new type of flat-panel TV based on SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) technology, Toshiba said Tuesday. The investment cost of the factory--to be built at an existing Toshiba site in western Japan, in Himeji--will be split evenly between the two companies. Construction is scheduled to begin later this year, and the factory will start producing 15,000 50-inch panels per month in January 2007, according to Hiroko Mochida, a spokeswoman for Toshiba."
If the price point is right, this might be a winner - images as bright as a CRT, 1/3rd less power than a plasma, and no delay like you get with slow LCD TVs. Might be a winner - it would be very curious to see the word Canon on my TV set though...
If the price point is right, this might be a winner - images as bright as a CRT, 1/3rd less power than a plasma, and no delay like you get with slow LCD TVs. Might be a winner - it would be very curious to see the word Canon on my TV set though...
