Thu 7 Dec 2006
From Reuters:Sony said today it would establish a joint venture with a technology fund to develop a type of flat panel called field emission display.
Sony said it and Tokyo-based Technology Carve-out Investment Fund (TCI) would invest a total of 2.5 billion yen ($21.7 million) in the venture, which will start operations on Dec. 18 with about 30 employees.
Sony will take a 36.5 percent stake in the venture with TCI investing the remaining 63.5 percent.
Field emission display (FED) technology was invented in the 1970s as a possible alternative to the traditional cathode-ray tube TV but has never been commercialised, losing out to liquid-crystal displays and plasma displays in the flat panel race.
Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. are working together on a technology similar to FED called surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED), aiming to compete with LCD and plasma technology in the fast-growing flat TV market.
FED and SED TV technology can be use to develop flat displays that are bright, consume relatively little electricity and have wide viewing angles, but it remains unclear whether they will ever be commercially viable.
Interesting development. I’d like to follow this one closely to see how they develop FED technology to compete with SED television technology.
Technorati Tags: SED, FED, SED television
December 16th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
at last confirmation from SONY that LCD like plasma will have a limited lifespan, anyone who cares to watch the SONY BRAVIA promotional dvd
they run to promote bravia, should notice the side viewing shot of the colored
balls being tipped down the very steep San Francisco street, the side on
view shows all the colored balls elongated, to a considerable degree,
proving once and for all, that LCD cannot handle the fast moving object,
this is why all the LCD promo dvd’s are carefull not to show high speed
action, apart from the above blunder that slipped through,
December 20th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
I ponder why the CRT display is still far superior and longer lasting than new technology and why no one has figured out how to bend, magnify or mirror the tube to reduce the depth of the unit to increase screen size. Will FED/ SED make other displays redundant?
January 4th, 2007 at 6:30 am
A quick search reveals that the company (Candescent Technologies Corporation) Sony was working with on FED displays was bought out by Canon in 2004!