Mon 16 Apr 2007
Not much happening in the SED TV world lately. Canon is still waiting for the ruling in the Nano-Proprietary case. That is expected later this month according to Canon President President Tsuneji Uchida. Canon also announced that it plans to appeal that decision so it’s obvious that they’re not as optimistic as they once were .
However, Toshiba hasn’t been just sitting around sulking. After dropping SED TV like a hot potato, they’ve announced plans to ship a 30″ OLED TV in 2009. This is far in advance of their original plan of 2015. It will be interesting to see who actually comes out first with a new display technology TV. By that I mean the day you or I can walk into a store and take one home (barring anything like an obscene price tag). Canon or someone else with SED? Or Toshiba or Sony with OLED. We’ll see.
Stand by for the next exciting installment of the Nano vs. Canon story.
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April 16th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Oleds look good but they are have flouresent backlighting which I’m allergic too so I guess I can’t watch TV once my 10 year old Mangavox goes bad.
I just purchased a 19″ TV and boy does the quality sucks everything is super bright I just fell sorry for the Average consumer who just wants to watch American Idol or something and having such poor quality visual displays TV or whatever.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:25 am
SED might very well become irrelevant at this point. LCDs with LED backlighting should make their way to the showroom any minute now, with improved black levels and better than CRT color. Plasmas keep on getting better, and the next generation from Pioneer will have even better blacks and 1080p as well.
Remember that SED is quite similar to CNT technology. Sony is working on CNT as I am writing this. Looks like the future may very well be OLED for small displays and CNT for the larger ones.
Canon is alone in this SED thing now, and has no experience in display technology, and no brand name in that area as well. They stand little chance to make this work. If Samsung can get their hands on the technology, than maybe we’ll see it someday. But somehow I’ve stopped believing.
It either Plasma or LCD for the next 5 years at least.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
How right you are tk421, leaving aside on who is at fault which I lay squarely on the door of Nano, I believe this technology’s superiority will simply be another footnote of the great technology dustbin, passed over because of greed, miscalculations or poor strategic thinking. MacIntosh OS, SACD, DVD-A, Betamax all failed to gain a strong foothold in the marketplace and were supplanted by inferior technology. Years from now case studies will be written about SED’s failure from the major player’s shortsightedness. One can only hope that those business students who read that case study will not repeat the same mistakes when they become captains of industry. I would not be surprised if SED makes it to market but at this time my guess would be that it will be a niche product for editing studios. I really hope I am wrong and in this case would love to eat crow….but I doubt it.