What DID happen to SED...................?

[fayeanddavid]

All the talk a couple of years back, joint venture between Toshiba and Canon giving all sorts of promises

Contrast of a CRT

Slimness of OLED

Was going to put LCD and Plasma literally in the shade with picture quality

I did read about some Intellectual Property concerns with a third party IPR/IC...............would be interetsing to know if this technology will be revived given the current WHF comments on the OLED screen

Anyone know??

 

[Andrew Everard]

Clickety

 

[fayeanddavid]

And.................that's that then?

 

[Andrew Everard]

fayeanddavid:And.................that's that then?

A blog piece explaining what happened to SED. Nothing's been heard since...

 

[TKratz]

Well, something has been heard since. The format is unfortunately officially dead.

I could post a link, but I am afraid that would be against the house rules...

 

[Andrew Everard]

TKratz:I could post a link, but I am afraid that would be against the house rules...

So glad you didn't, in that case...

(Mind you, you could have posted this one...)

 

[scene]

Andrew Everard:
TKratz:I could post a link, but I am afraid that would be against the house rules...

So glad you didn't, in that case...

(Mind you, you could have posted this one...)

And I'm fairly certain he could have posted the link to Canon's official announcement of the liquidation of it's SED division: click

 

[Andrew Everard]

Indeed.

 

[fayeanddavid]

So.........................

SED gone but now "maybe" FED?

Interesting......................I wonder if any of the big boys (Sony) have the appetite for the investment, and potential for failure in the current climate?

 

[Andrew Everard]

There are somewhat bigger boys than Sony in the TV business, and none of them has shown any interest to date.

 

[Anonymous]

I thought OLED was the current next big thing?

Roll-up telly FTW.

 

[TKratz]

Nice info there Scene

I only had the information from a second hand source.

I don't believe in FED either, but I do believe in OLED however. Let us see if the IFA will bring some light on this. Rumours says, that LG will present a 31 inch prototype ready for production and sale next year

 

[Anonymous]

TKratz:
Nice info there Scene

I only had the information from a second hand source.

I don't believe in FED either, but I do believe in OLED however. Let us see if the IFA will bring some light on this. Rumours says, that LG will present a 31 inch prototype ready for production and sale next year

I heard the tech's been ready to go for a while, but no-one's willling to drop however many billion Yen/Yaun on a production facility untill the economic situation improves... It's a standoff at the mo, as soon as someone blinks everyone will commit.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Both the Korean companies were talking about much larger OLEDs 'one day' when I visited them almost two years ago, so I think it's more likely to be a case of won being dropped rather than yen or yuan. Whether's there's the will to do so when both companies are riding high in the TV market and doing nicely with plans to ramp up LED-lit LCD production is an entirely different matter.

 

[Clare Newsome]

Of course it is Europe's biggest technology show - IFA - next week. Look out for our news reports live from the event......