SED televisions delayed, again -- possibly forever
by Thomas Ricker 
posted May 25th 2007 at 7:00AM
Damn, not another SED television delay. Yup, Canon and Toshiba just announced the postponement of the "late 2007" launch of their SED televisions citing the prolonged patent lawsuit with Nano-Proprietary as the reason. Presumably, Canon is in no mood to strike a new licensing agreement with both Nano-Proprietary and Toshiba as required by a previous ruling which sided with Nano-Proprietary. Wait, it gets worse. Not only has the litigation delayed the launch of Toshiba's 55-incher with 100,000:1 contrast, Canon also announced that they've stopped work on the technologies required to bring production costs down to that of LCDs and plasmas. That calls into question the commercial viability of the technology in the long run. Whatever, we've had it, we're turning our attention to OLED -- hear that Sony and Toshiba? You'd better not let us down.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SimbaDogg @ May 25th 2007 4:56PM
talk about losing out on money...they had so much of a market on the table, and a real break through technology, and now we're not even sure if we'll ever see it. simply amazing...
Negi3A @ May 25th 2007 10:48PM
Where does it say that they're stopping work on the technologies required to bring production costs down?
ghostdoggy @ May 26th 2007 9:15AM
This reminds me of RAMBUS and how they tried to keep pricing high and in the end lost bigtime to the competition. The patent company should learn from history instead of trying to repeat it.
Kentucky Wildcats! @ May 26th 2007 11:43AM
SED was going to be my next TV, to replace my 36" direct-view Sony 36XBR400. I'm depressed...
hellodavey @ May 26th 2007 7:54PM
Are there no reasonable people in corporate business?!