SED TV Reviews

Thanks to Vincent Nguyen for posting the following SED TV videos on slashgear.com

A quote:

“SED-TV is the future of digital image displays; it’s as simple as that. There is currently nothing on the market that comes remotely close to Canon’s offering. Now, the question remains, how will Toshiba respond to Canon’s extremely successful debut of SED-TV technology? Either way, we are all in for a great treat as this technology becomes more widespread. Well, that’s enough text about SED-TV, go ahead and click on the videos, and see the breathtaking future in action.”

His article is a great source of information on SED television and Canon’s plans for it.

Interview with Michael Zorich from Canon

Canon SED TV demo video

If you haven’t seen these Canon SED videos yet they’re definitely worth a look.

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Yet another view of the amazing picture quality of the SED TV and it’s potential from displaydaily.com

SED Revs Up CEATEC

October 4th, 2006

If your looking for the biggest buzz at Japan’s CEATEC this year, go no further than the Canon/Toshiba SED booth in Hall 1 at this massive precursor to the January Consumer Electronics Show. Here, the Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display (SED), which was conspicuously absent from SID and other display technology venues this year, is being shown in a 55-inch model.

Lines begin forming a good 40 minutes to 1 hr. before the closed-door presentation, and that’s the line to get tickets. There is yet another line to see the demonstration.

To my knowledge, no one who has seen the SED technology up front and close denies the display prowess. And the specs support this. The 55-inch model shown publicly for the first time here yesterday includes a 1920 x 1080 display resolution boasting 50,000:1 contrast at 450 cd/m2 brightness at a less than 1ms response time. Yutaka Sakuraba, SEDs deputy senior general manager for product development and design claims true CRT like performance from the flat panel display; something he said no other display technology can even approach.

Possibly true, but the company has yet to demonstrate they can produce these results in mass quantities and perhaps more importantly, at a price point competitive with rival LCD and PDP flat screens. Adding fuel to doubting display analyst crowd is the company’s long delay in bringing the product to market-or even full production.

For his part, Sakuraba said flat panel market conditions, including significant price erosion in the space, forced a re-visit of product development plans including cost-down and ramp models more than once. ” It’s been a planning nightmare for the team but we believe we are on track for full production in the 2008 time frame.” he said. “We’re looking at the broader view and mass migration to DTV by 2011 when digital TV signals become the standard and all analog goes away.” Sakuraba continued.

The company will spend the first half of 2007 perfecting its prototype process in Hitatsuka, Japan where the 55-inch units shown at CEATEC were produced. The company plans to be in serial-production by July-07 with a 55-inch line. Then, it will move to full production at a former Toshiba CRT factory located in Himaji, (Hyogo prefecture) Japan by the beginning of 2008.

Sakuraba emphasized all equipment used to build the new displays in the company’s prototype factory was developed in-house leveraging the technology strengths of both partners. For example, Canon is supplying critical ink-jet technology in applying the palladium-oxide and carbon compound emitter layer. So the company is charged not only with developing the process, but building the tools to manufacture the technology as well.

Make no mistake, what these two companies are attempting is no less than a display technology paradigm shift in the face of LCD and PDP flat panel dominance - the result of billions of R&D and capacity investment dollars and ballooning output fueling accelerated price declines which continually spur demand for these traditional flat panels. But the company is bullish on SED display superiority, pouring development funds and resources into the project. And if the growing crowds here at CEATEC portend the future, the SED image is one certainly worth waiting for. The question is: will this wait ever be rewarded? –SS

Thanks to displaydaily.com for the great SED TV technology article. I’m looking forward to doing a few SED TV reviews at CES2007

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More old but good info on the writer’s impression of SED TV
From: Engadget
The SED display sets were 32-inches showing a 720p pic, but the production units later this year will be 55-inches in full 1080p. Even with the the 720p source material during the 12-minute presentation, the SED picture rivaled, or even exceeded some of the 1080p displays we scanned this week. The demo highlighted features like brightness, contrast, depth and color. Probably the best way to describe something this visual is to think back to when you first saw HDTV. Remember the impact it had on you and the jump you saw in picture quality? That’s what SED feels like; it’s like making the jump from SDTV to HDTV all over again. It’s that good.

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This article was from last year but details the SED TV manufacturing process.

Full story at:  NE Asia Online 

At last a portion of the technologies used to manufacture surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) panels, currently under development by Canon Inc of Japan and Toshiba Corp of Japan, has been revealed. The joint venture between the two, SED Inc of Japan, presented a paper on manufacturing methods used for SED panel electron emitters, at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2005 display conference and exhibition held in Boston from May 22 to 27, 2005. The paper stressed the cost competitiveness of the technology. Volume production of panels was slated to start in August 2005, while Toshiba has made the decision to site a volume production fab at its Himeji Plant, to start operation in January 2007.

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A couple of SED TV questions have been out there for a while. So I asked the SED project team for answers.

1.  Is the SED panel subject to any kind of “burn-in” when operating?

We cannnot state that no “burn-in” of any kind will  occur in SED panels,
but we do expect the same level of durability as that of the cathode-ray tube.

2.  An Australian newspaper stated that SED colours age at different rates? Is there any truth to this?

Basically, we’ve not disclosed fundamental technologies for SED panels; therefore,
we cannot comment on information for color lifespans of SED.

This one seems more related to OLED TV panels from what I’ve found. Not definite answers for either question but hope it helps clear things up a bit.

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SED TV images from CEATEC

Engadget SED TV image

Lots of interesting shots of the Toshiba SED TV display at CEATEC 2006. A number of comments were made on how the SED television looks better in a dark room, but that’s the case for most TV’s in my experience.

And thanks to DJ for this link www.dagbladet.no Nice!

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Kazunori Fukuma, the president of SED Inc., announced today that SED TV production will start by the end of 2007 and move to full scale production by 2008.

This seems to be a bit later than the last SED television announcements a few months ago. Hopefully there won’t be any further delays as I believe it may start hurting the credibility of the product.

Toshiba and Canon also had 3 55 inch SED TV’s on display. This was one of the most visited displays at CEATEC with people lining up to see the demonstration.

Keiichiro Mori, from the SED Project Team, said production is on track for July 2007. The first SEDTV’s are going to be available in Japan in the 55 inch size only. Pricing and international distribution plans aren’t finalized yet.
With information from, and full stories at:

Reuters.co.uk 

pcworld.com

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At CEATEC, Naoaki Umezu, Toshiba’s chief specialist on SED, announced that the company has come up with some manufacturing breakthroughs that will allow the SED TV to be priced competitively with large LCD TV’s.

This is some very welcome news as there has been continuous speculation as to whether or not SED Inc could manufacture SED television panels at anywhere close to a cost competitive to LCD or plasma. Read the full story at:

CNET News.com

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