Canon said to be developing own tech for SED TV production

by Evan Blass posted Dec 31st 2007 at 4:39PM

After being hampered by habitual delays both legal and technical, it looks like the long-awaited über-tech of the display world may finally be on the cusp of reaching market, as Canon is reportedly developing a way to build surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) TVs without using contentious IP. Specifically, Japanese newspaper Asahi is reporting -- without citing sources -- that Canon is working on a "non-carbon" method of producing the sets that bypasses the Nano-Proprietary patents at the heart of that lawsuit. Still no hint on when we'll actually be able to install one of these models in our home theater, but the promise of unrivaled black levels, brightness, and contrast could well have us drinking the SED Kool-Aid for years to come.

[Via Bloomberg, thanks Dr. MORO]

Filed under: Displays, Canon, SED

Tags: canon, nano-proprietary, sed, surface-conduction electron-emitter display, Surface-conductionElectron-emitterDisplay

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Logan9773 @ Feb 10th 2008 9:21PM

LCD sucks, and I don't know if OLED will be any better but I doubt it. And I don't see why SED wouldn't be flat panel. I only care about picture and color, nothing else. That is what will determine what TV or monitor I buy.

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maxp1 @ Feb 17th 2008 9:53PM

LCD development is going to totally overwhelm SEDs. There's not going to be room in the market for them.

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Cullen @ Dec 31st 2007 4:59PM

This is the Duke Nuke 'em of TVs. Delayed, delayed, delayed. Then, when it will be ready it is crap. (Look at the Duke Nuke 'em trailer) OLED has a higher contrast ration, it's brighter, just expensive...

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bryan catmull @ Mar 5th 2008 9:16PM

making comments like that shows how little you really know, there are plenty of fellow ignoramuses out there, go join them

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Charles @ Dec 31st 2007 6:31PM

Sorry, but SED (if it ever goes into mainstream production) > OLED. At least there are OLED products on the market and in use in common electronics like some MP3 players, etc.

Also, I thought the jist of the lawsuit just prevented them from sharing the technology with Toshiba. Now that they've bought out Toshiba's shares of the joint-venture, what is preventing them from using the Nano-Proprietary tech again?

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GhostDoggy @ Dec 31st 2007 8:20PM

It reminds me of the corporate BS that caused RAMBUS to fail in the market. Of course, the human species is never without a healthy share of D-A's to spoil it for the rest of us.

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mike @ Jan 1st 2008 4:11PM

this is not like duke nukem at all. This actually exsists. We have seen it. Toshiba wants to make it. The only thing holding it back is damn legal issues. Imagine there were no such thing as patents. Sure everyone would get screwed out of their ideas and money but the world would be 100 years ahead in technology then it is today.

As for duke nukem, Well no1 has ever seen any sort of gameplay (just that lame trailer that was recently released which was all cgi). So it does not really exsist.

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HDpurist @ Jan 1st 2008 6:11PM

Forget SED. Kuro is out now.

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SED2008 @ Jan 1st 2008 7:22PM

HDpurist:Kuro didn't deliver.

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joe @ Jan 2nd 2008 2:35AM

The window on SED technology is closing.

SED has no image quality advantages over oled devices. The main advantage of sed was the ability to leverage existing CRT plants in production. Meaning large cheap displays.

Sed are not flat. They are like micro crts with one electron gun per pixel. They use phosphers step up transformers and glass. They are much thicker than both LCD and PDP and much heavier.

The price of a 42" lcd panel is $700 at my local best buy.

Sed would have to release this year to have a chance to compete. It is for all effect a dead technology that will under deliver compared to LCD's of the time.

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bryan catmull @ Mar 5th 2008 9:16PM

another ignoramus with comments like these, if
you actually understood how these panels work
you would not open your mouth

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