SED TV Reviews

At a year end gathering with the press Atsutoshi Nishida provided the following cheerful holiday news for SED TV fans:
“We will release a product, but it will be pricey.” Atsutoshi Nishida, President of Toshiba Corp. commented so about the “SED (surface-conducting electron-emitter display)” at the company’s year-end press gathering. He said the first shipment of SED products is “slated for fall 2007.”

Just to make sure that any consumer level SED TV fans got the message he added;

Toshiba planned to start shipping SED products in fall 2007, but is now considering focusing on professional users at first, positioning the SED as a “limited, pricey, high-end” product. Nishida said the company’s plan to build an SED volume-production facility in Himeji is “advancing on track.” However, he said that the SED is not “competitive against the LCD TV” in the market for consumer TVs, and that Toshiba is not planning to bring SED to the current retail consumer TV market.

That ties in with the decision not to appear at CES2007. It may not be the reason, but there’s no point displaying something that will not be available to consumers. This move is not a total surprise but definitely a disappointment for those of us following SED television.
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