An interesting observation on the past and future of SED TV by an anonymous TV engineer can be found at:
www.tvtechnology.com
A couple of excerpts:
“You might not have noticed that not everything that can be imagined always happens. Yes, I’m ranting this month about new display technologies.”
“Near as I can tell, each and every person who has seen pix on an SED has wanted one–desperately–and that generally ain’t even been folks working in TV technology. Imagine the light weight of a production truck with an SED monitor wall. Imagine eliminating monitor racks. Go ahead; do your own imagining.”
“So I’ll bet I ain’t alone in wanting a replacement for CRTs. But I don’t really want a 55-inch screen for video shading, and,even in a big control room, that’s mighty large for a director’s program monitor. Still, that’s the size Canon and Toshiba have settled on for their initial SED products.”
“I recommend not holding your breath until 2008 waiting for the Canon/Toshiba miracle CRT replacement.”
I have more faith than this author in SED Inc bringing SED television to the consumer (in very limited quantities) by the end of 2007. I hope I’m right.
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In an interesting use of carbon nanotube technology (as found in SED TV), Samsung labs is looking at ways to help improve LCD TV performance and lower backlighting costs. Full story at Cnet below:
Carbon nanotubes
“The prototype essentially represents the marriage of two separate avenues of TV technology and could help dramatically lower the cost of LCD TVs in the future. Samsung has already been experimenting with carbon nanotube TVs called field-emitter displays, or FEDs.
In such TVs, thousands of nanotubes shoot electrons onto a phosphorescent screen to illuminate images. Carbon nanotubes are hollow molecules of intricately arranged carbon atoms that that have remarkable properties. They conduct electricity better than metal, are stronger than steel and can emit light.
These nanotube TVs are actually similar in concept to traditional CRT (cathode-ray tube) TVs, and advocates claim that they will provide better resolution and picture quality than LCD TVs or plasma TVs. Toshiba and Canon will release a similar nanotube set known as SED TV late next year. (SED stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display.)”
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