Wed 17 May 2006
More good SED television news from Canon. Story from:
Yahoo Asia News
(Kyodo) _ Canon Inc. President-designate Tsuneji Uchida said Thursday the company will launch high-definition televisions next year to cover its delay in the field.
“Our product lineup lacks televisions and we definitely need SEDs,” Uchida, the company’s vice president who will replace Fujio Mitarai as president on May 23, said in a press conference. SED stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display for next-generation large, flat-screen TVs.
“I am 99.9 percent confident,” Uchida said of Canon’s release of SED televisions next year.
Canon had put off its planned marketing of SED TVs to between October and December 2007 from this spring as it has had difficulty cutting production costs.
Mitarai, who will become chairman of the business lobby Japan Business Federation, or Nippon Keidanren, on May 24, said Canon will also seek to set up businesses in rear projection TVs and advanced displays such as organic electroluminescence displays.
Canon is planning to start selling rear projection TV models for school use within next year.
Canon has been collaborating with Toshiba Corp. for developing SED TVs, which feature low power consumption and high-quality images, and compete with those using liquid crystal and plasma displays.
In a separate news conference, Toshiba said it will spend 180 billion yen for planned full-scale SED production from 2008 as the company expects demand for panel televisions to grow before the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
