Tue 8 Aug 2006
According to an article in pcwelt.de, Toshiba has announced more specific plans for the SED TV production site at Himeji. I couldn’t find a date on this but it appears to be recent. Please comment if you know anything more accurate. Some details are below, check the link for the whole story.
“Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. are investing ?180 billion (US$1.7 billion) to build a factory that will make panels for a new type of flat-panel TV based on SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) technology, Toshiba said Tuesday.”
“SED TVs can produce pictures as bright as those of CRT TVs and without the slight time delay sometimes seen on LCD TVs, according to proponents of SED. The technology also uses up to a third less power than plasma panels, according to Toshiba and Canon, which have been developing the technology since the 1990s.
It marks the second major investment the companies have made in the new TV technology. Last September, they said they would spend ‘200 billion to form a joint venture called SED Inc. that will mass produce the TVs.
SED Inc. will run the new factory, which will increase production to more than 70,000 panels per month by the end of December 2007, Mochida said.
Toshiba produced CRT TVs at Himeji until it closed that operation last September, she said. The site currently has 1,300 workers making a variety of TV components, she said.
The first SED TVs should go on sale before the end of March. Toshiba has yet to announce screen sizes and prices, but the TVs are likely to sell at a premium to plasma TVs of the same size, the company has said.”
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