Posted by Bob Myers on 11/06/07 18:35

"Igor" <donotreply@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ph61j3d7ofjn1g4fdf21rhm9627qf995a2@4ax.com...
> Tokyo -- Toshiba Corporation announced today that the company will
> postpone the start of sales of SED TVs, which was originally planned
> for the fourth quarter of 2007.
>
> The decision is based on information provided by Canon Inc.,
> indicating that Canon will not be able to provide SED panels to the
> original schedule.

Right. Note that I said that Toshiba had bowed out of the
joint venture with Canon - the JV company that was formed
to produce the SED panels - leaving that to Canon alone.
Toshiba had not at that point, and still has not, as far as I know,
given up on plans to produce televisions using what would now
be Canon's SED production.

> And according to the following article --
>
> http://www.behardware.com/articles/593-1/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sed.html
>
> -- Canon and Toshiba were most definitely promising that the
> technology would be used to make monitor-sized displays:

Well, that's at least one person's interpretation of what
Toshiba and Canon were saying. I never heard that in direct
conversations with either company, except as a vague possibility.
It very quickly became apparent that the SED technology
would not be cost-competitive with LCDs at monitor sizes
(roughly, under 30" diagonal), and I have not heard the word
"monitor" mentioned in connection with the SED AT ALL for
several years. The smallest SED I have seen demoed was a
36" 1920 x 1080 (definitely a TV-oriented size and format),
and the most recent press on the subject has centered on larger
sizes being the likely candidates for first production. At this point,
I would be EXTREMELY surprised if the SED ever got close
to the monitor market. Which is, by the way, where I work
professionally.

Bob M.

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