Sun 2 Nov 2008
Just in case no one noticed, there’s been nothing new on SED TV for some time now. I was expecting a bit of positive news after Canon winning the appeal in June against Applied Nanotech.
However, we’re now in November. A number of trade shows have come and gone in the last few months with no sign of anything from Canon or SED Inc.
FPD 2008 in Japan, GITEX 2008 in Dubai, CEATEC 2008 in Japan, IFA 2008 in Berlin. These were all recent venues to show the SED TV and we’ve seen nothing.
The next big event in CES 2009 in LAs Vegas in January. It was two years ago that Canon and Toshiba pulled out at the last minute due to certain legal difficulties. What a disaster that was for SED TV.
If Canon/SED Inc. doesn’t show up at CES 2009 in January I will really start to wonder what they are up to and whether or not we will ever see a product from them.
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
SED TV as shown previously is a non-starter. Canon SED Displays are going forward but dif design. To be cost competititive next gen displays / TVs will be printable on low cost flexible substrates. Many in Asia are working on this technology. However most are working with OLED on Flex Substrate i.e. Samsung , et. al. Canon has a SED/CNT Flexible TFT technology. Earliest commercial product Q1 2010. Outside chance Q4 2009, but not high probability.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 am
In the press release of EOS5DmkII in Japan. Canon’s executives was asked “what about ways in storing or showing photos”
The executive replied, saying that this direction seems to be a trap …and things are going on in your(the one who asked) expected direction. I think this implies they are still working at SED to complete their imaging lineup.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
At the end of September I was talking to a Canon sales rep so I could get a quote for a maintenance agreement on our Canon office equipment and I asked the lady if she had any word on what is up with them getting their SED TV’s out and she said no. She was waiting for news on them just like everyone else as she wanted to buy one herself.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
AS ONE OF ITS CORE ENGINES, I DO NOT THINK
CANON WOULD BE RUSHING SED’S RELEASE UNTIL
THEY ARE TOTALLY CONVINCED THE PANEL IS
READY FOR LONG TERM SERVICE COUPLED WITH
RELIABILITY, TO ACHIEVE THESE AIMS WOULD
INVOLVE CONTINUOS RUNNING TESTS UNDER STRESS CONDITIONS, THIS IS TOTALLY NEW TECHNOLOGY
AND MUST BE 100% RIGHT, BEFORE RELEASE,
CES 2009 WOULD BE THE IDEAL SHOW FOR
SHOWING THE PRE PRODUCTION MODEL,
November 5th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Thanks for all the comments and emails. I admit to being impatient to see SED TV out, but Canon doesn’t listen to me! Maybe I’m still a bit annoyed at canceling my trip to CES 2007 for obvious reasons.
There are obviously a lot of factors at play here. The design is one of them for sure.
Canon is doing the right thing by waiting until they have everything lined up.
I got to play with a Sony XEL-1 for a week. It was very impressive, but not very practical.
I look forward to checking out the first SED TV within the next year or so.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
WHO IS THIS WENDY PERSON? and what is all this gobblegook she is coming out with!
where does all this so called information
come from? I am sure Canon have not dropped
the SED DESIGN as such, this wendy person
comments should not be taken seriously
November 5th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
A contact in Japan told me that this program has been halted. This was a shock and could be wrong but advancing competition and high costs could be a cause. Perhaps APNT can buy everything back at a garage sale. I used to own NPI stock and continue to hold Canon forever. I hope this info is wrong but who knows for now.
Sorry everyone. If I hear better news I’ll let you know but I don’t want to put my contact on the spot.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I hope friggin Nano is happy. I can’t believe its been two years already. Seems like an eternity. Anyways, i really hope Cannon pulls through with SEDs, they WILL be the TV tech to have.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
What about the “highly cost” nanotubes, and this is looks to me, like some corporate conspiracy, to buy older products until they’re drained to tech maximum, and then buy the “new” SED displays…
November 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
The November issue of Home Theater Magazine mentioned that Sony’s FED will be out in 2009, maybe that’ll wake Canon up. Since SED is a subset of FED the displays should perform very close to the same way. Hopefully Sony’s FED will be priced reasonably and once Canon’s SED is available the competition will help to keep the prices down.
Canon’s FED technology was always planned on being produced on printable flexible substrates to keep the cost down, even when they were using Nano’s technology. They are already very advanced in print technology and it fits right in. Large screen (40 plus inches) OLED displays are several years away.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Graham says a contact in Japan told him,
a contact? thats equivalent to I’ve heard
a whisper, if you cannot verify your so called source Graham, then you are wasting
every ones time with garbage like this,