SED TV Reviews

Tokyo – Toshiba Corporation announced that the company will postpone the start of sales of SED TVs, which was originally planned for the fourth quarter of 2007.

The decision is based on information provided by Canon Inc., indicating that Canon will not be able to provide SED panels to the original schedule.

The specific timeframe for the launch of SED TVs cannot be indicated at this moment.

Let’s hope this isn’t the last we hear from Toshiba on SED television. Smarthouse reports that this may be the end of SED TV. I really wouldn’t be surprised, the way Canon has dealt with this whole fiasco.  Keep your fingers crossed SED TV fans.

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I think we all knew this was coming …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Canon Inc. and Toshiba Corp. have decided to postpone the launch of SED TVs for the second time, the Japanese companies said on Friday, raising doubt over the commercial viability of the new flat televisions.

The two companies, which already delayed the debut of the SED TVs once last year, are now postponing the launch from the final quarter of 2007 to an unspecified later date.

Canon, the world’s top makers of digital cameras, copiers and laser printers, cited a prolonged patent lawsuit with Nano-Proprietary Inc. as a reason for the delay.

It is also putting off the launch to develop the technology to cut production costs, a step necessary to compete with liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma TVs.

Toshiba, which plans to procure SED panels from Canon, is postponing the TV launch as Canon is unable to start supplying the panels on time.

The new launch timing has yet to be decided, they said.

Full story at link above.

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Last week, during an official media tour to Canon’s Japanese headquarters, Canon Chairman/CEO Fujio Mitarai confirmed that Canon will launch SED TV technology this year SED TV

Full story at Smarthouse News.com

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However, the mention of the status of SED display technology caused a bit of unease for Canon President & COO Tsuneji Uchida who still arrogantly claims that Canon has done nothing wrong. On May 3, Nano-Proprietary won a lawsuit seeking to void a licensing agreement between -Proprietary and Canon. “We greatly respect the intellectual property rights of others,” Uchida said, “as well as our own.” (more…)

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Canon Press Release

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An interesting interview with Canon President Uchida yesterday in Monaco. He discussed SED TV as well as Canon’s future growth forecasts. Full story at link below:

MONACO (Reuters) – Japan’s Canon Inc. is still focused on globally producing the next generation of flat panel televisions despite a legal setback that has thrown the debut and rollout of the new product into doubt.

“We are not limiting our views to the Japanese market. We have the global market in mind,” Canon’s President and Chief Operating Officer Tsuneji Uchida told Reuters in an interview.

Speaking in Monaco, where the company was celebrating its 50th year in Europe, Uchida said on Monday that Canon was keen to resolve the dispute and sort out production constraints involving both the new screens and across the entire business.

Last week, a U.S. court ruled that Canon does not have to pay additional damages to Texas-based Nano-Proprietary Inc. over the violation of a licence for making flat-panels known as surface-conduction electron-emitter displays or SEDs. (more…)

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Great news for SED TV fans! I think this is the best possible outcome in this case.

AUSTIN, TX — (MARKET WIRE) — May 03, 2007 — Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (OTCBB: NNPP) today announced that the jury has reached a verdict in its litigation against Canon, Inc. In its verdict, the jury decided that Nano-Proprietary was due no additional damages beyond those already received, which includes the right to keep the $5.5 million that it originally received and termination of the original license agreement.

“While we are disappointed by the jury’s verdict, we need to keep in mind that we already had the most important victory in the case when the Court validated our termination of Canon’s license as a result of their material breach of the contract,” said Tom Bijou, Chief Executive officer of Nano-Proprietary, Inc. “We were also pleased that during the trial, Canon confirmed its plans to move forward with its SED TV and continue to believe that the advent of field emission display televisions will be a signal event for Nano-Proprietary. We made a significant gesture to Canon during the course of the trial that we hope will provide a framework of cooperation and negotiation for the future. Nothing about today’s verdict changes the fact that we have significant intellectual property that we believe will have to be licensed by anybody, including Canon, that wishes to sell televisions based on electron emissions in the broad geographical areas of the world where our IP is in effect. The vast majority of our revenue forecast for 2007 has little to do with televisions. Our growth in the materials and sensor business continues to be one of the drivers of our future.”

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