SED & FED TVs might be getting cheaper

by Richard Lawler, posted Oct 6th 2007 at 2:48PM

Just because Canon announced it's no longer working on ways to make SED televisions ~~a reality~~ cheaper, doesn't mean no one is. RD&IP recently announced new technology it has developed that could be used to reduce manufacturing costs on both SED and FED TVs. While squeezing old-school CRT technology into every pixel of a flat panel display is a tantalizing ideas, so far it's still too expensive for the mass market. RD&IP's tech claims to cut costs by allowing manufacturers to use cheaper cathodes instead of expensive carbon nanotubes. We'll have to wait to find out if anyone ever actually uses this, but we're sure SED fans are more than used to the waiting.

Filed under: Displays, SED

Tags: canon, fed, sed

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JeffDM @ Oct 7th 2007 2:25AM

Might be getting cheaper? Frankly, it's effectively unobtanium at the moment. Work on commercially available first. If Panasonic thinks there's a market for a $100k plasma, then I'd think that there might be a high end market for SED too, if it's all that it's been hyped up to be. The technologies that we can buy get better all the time, how much can they slip on the tech treadmill such that what we have at the time will be as good as SED was promised to be, and is actually for sale?

I thought that SED was supposed to be buildable for cheap, if they said that knowing it needs carbon nanotubes, then they didn't know what they were talking about.

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Darkest Daze @ Oct 7th 2007 6:28AM

I was thinking the same thing. I remember them saying that it would be fairly cheap to get an SED TV, then they forgot about that once they actually started to state the cost of them. I also remember when they first started making carbon nanotubes and the maker of them was saying they could be used to make a 46" HDTV for under $400. Some reason I don't see that happening anytime soon.

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FED TV Guy @ Oct 7th 2007 5:28PM

Cheaper sounds nice. Hopefully Canon and Nano will get through their current difficulties and produce something.

http://www.fed-tv-reviews.com

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joe @ Oct 8th 2007 1:44PM

Sed and FED are both great technologies but as time ticks on the price goes up.
The main manufacturing advantage was that you could re purpose a CRT assembly line to produce them, so you saved a big chunk of cash not having to build a whole new factory.

As CRT fabs close the advantage shrinks. LCD's have managed to catch up at the high end prices. As a reference professional monitors cost about $1100 per inch, so a 30 inch monitor costs $33,000. It's only a matter of time for technology to drop into consumers hands.

It seems the time for fed and sed is approaching a close before even one product got to market.

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AllenJ @ Oct 28th 2007 2:42PM

Good point. However, FED was on display at FPD 2007 in Japan. Fairly exclusive photos at my blog including FED display at 240 fps!!. SED? Still in hibernation or whatever you'd call it.

http://www.fed-tv-reviews.com

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