Tue 25 May 2010
According to Reuters, Canon has halted any further development of SED displays for home use.
Canon’s inability to bring down production costs was stated as the main reason for stopping further SED TV work.
As any regular visitor here knows, the legal troubles of the past few years were probably also a major factor in crippling what could have been the best flat panel display available so far.
Canon may continue to develop the technology for image diagnostic and other commercial uses but we won’t see a 50″ SED in stores in the future.
This will be it for this site, but please visit my OLED TV site at http://www.all-oled-tv-reviews.com, and if all the planets line up properly, http://www.fed-tv-reviews.com
Thanks to all the regular readers and commentors here. Your participation and enthusiasm over the years has been appreciated.
May 26th, 2010 at 1:08 am
WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH =)
I suppose oled is gaining too much ground
May 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am
It’s unfortunate to see. As SED TV Guy said SED could have easily been the best display technology on the market if it’s launch hadn’t been held up for years due to patent trolling by Applied Nanotech. What are the chances that SED patents and technologies could be licensed or bought in the same way AU Optronics acquired the tech and patents to FED following FET Inc’s demise? Would Samsung still be interested in SED after all these years?
May 26th, 2010 at 10:11 am
It’s surprising to read the production plans were halted due to high production costs. This always struck me as an inexpesnsive tech compared to say plasma.
It’s interesting to hear production will continue for comercial applications though.
May 28th, 2010 at 5:30 am
%$*^@ $*^&$^$&%# *#&^ &*&#^%$ $@%#$^ DAMNIT!!
May 28th, 2010 at 5:42 am
But then again, with OLED you can do this:
http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/101250
Now they can actually build those little slide apart communicators that were the show “Earth: Final Conflict”.
May 28th, 2010 at 11:53 am
YES YES YES FOR SED TV
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:35 am
Well, there goes another one. I can’t help feeling I’ve given it the kiss of death. I have this amazing ability to back brilliant technologies that sadly don’t get up.
So if you ever want to know what will succeed, just ask me, and then pick something else.
I was really looking forward to SED. Now it looks like I’ll have to resort to something less when my high-end CRT dies.
In memoriam – SED – 1999-2010
June 9th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
I tried OLED a Zune HD 3.3 screen it messed with my vision to the pont where I had to return it.
So no oled isn’t for everyone I guess the only thing I can look foward to are led projectors like the HX300 that just came out in Korea.
June 14th, 2010 at 5:52 am
I tried to leave a comment on the FED TV reviews page but it’s still waiting to be moderated. That was over a month ago…
June 16th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Sorry Eric, I must not have comment notification turned on there. Stand by…
June 19th, 2010 at 5:50 am
It’s cool. Not upset. I just figured life got in the way because I doubt these sites are what pay your mortgage.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:04 am
sed vs fed in 3D
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:19 am
DON’T LIE AND SAY THE TRUTH SED TV IS BEST technology
July 17th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
SED looked nice, but…100 thousand to 1 contrast?! As far as I understand, an old CRT has 1 million to one contrast. That new AMOLED LG TV has 10 million to one contrast.
I mean, SED sounded nice in theory. It also sounded like really, really low power. Maybe even less than FED? I have no idea.
But what do I want? Uh, sharpness, wonderful definition, a lot of contrast, vivid colors, huge lifetime, low power consumption and thin displays.
In that case, it seems that SED was a more modern-looking, slimmer and power-friendlier CRT. Not a better one.
Is OLED going to let me down? Maybe, since it has blue-color trouble and low lifetimes for the blue layer. But they say AMOLED goes a long way to fix the blue issue.
Still, FED does everything that CRT did, with less power. The problem is that it needs a higher vacuum, which it damages by itself because it releases gas when the electron rays hit the luminescent layer. Folks should hook up a vacuum pump to that tube and ship it integrated in the TV / computer display itself.
August 11th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Frustated to see the end of SED TV like this.
I hope in future this technology will be used to bring back SED TV in some other name. We shall wait till then and I know its going to be a long wait if it happens.
Regards
Rafales
September 23rd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
ALL THE WORLD SEE YES FOR SED TV