SED: Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display

[CCT]

Saw an short article about this technology on AM news - hard to believe television wasn't in existance when I was born!

http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679235p1.html

[Platypus]

Looks like only a prospect for high-end professional applications in the immediate future:

http://www.sed-tv-reviews.com/toshib...-holidays.html

"Toshiba planned to start shipping SED products in fall 2007, but is now considering focusing on professional users at first, positioning the SED as a “limited, pricey, high-end” product. Nishida said the company’s plan to build an SED volume-production facility in Himeji is “advancing on track.” However, he said that the SED is not “competitive against the LCD TV” in the market for consumer TVs, and that Toshiba is not planning to bring SED to the current retail consumer TV market."

[NooNoo]

Starting at 55" would push it out of the standard consumer market anyway...

Maybe they should leapfrog for entire wall displays...?

[slgrieb]

A very interesting technology that has been touted as nearly ready for a couple of years now, but just can't seem to crack that nearly barrier. Of course, it could turn out to be like LCDs, which were nearly ready to nosedive in price. Then BOOM!