http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/ Engadget HD Comments for Canon wins SED lawsuit, can produce SED displays again http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/Aug 6th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/
weren't they right around the corner from releasing a product when the legal issues arose and stopped them? Hopefully they are still very close to a product-release stage (maybe they kept working on it behind closed doors while they pursued legal recourse?!?).

If they can get a product out in 6 months, great...if it's going to be "sometime in 2010," that could be over 2 years away and I'm not going to get excited.

3 years ago, SED was supposed to be "better and cheaper" than LCD...if after all of this, it comes out 3 years late, is more expensive than LCD and plasma, and isn't any better than the other 2010 products (LCD's and plasmas get better every day), I'm going to be (even more) disillusioned.]]>Aug 7th 2008 1:40AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/
this is from a guy that seem the pioneer kuro pro-111 the best flat panel in the planet.]]>Aug 7th 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/
BTW, for all you newcomers, SED was feared to be too expensive for the marketplace as far back as 2005 (When 50" plasmas were $5000.00). Canon nor Toshiba ever reassured the media that it wouldn't be crazy expensive.]]>Aug 7th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/Aug 7th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/Aug 7th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/
If it turns out that SED takes off, I would gladly take that too. :)]]>Aug 7th 2008 11:17AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/Aug 7th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/Aug 8th 2008 12:25AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/Oct 14th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/06/canon-wins-sed-lawsuit-can-produce-sed-displays-again/
Engadget story initially reporting the "abandonment": http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/25/sed-televisions-delayed-again-possibly-forever/

3rd-party story upon which this is based:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUST621220070525

What that story actually says:

"Canon cited a prolonged patent lawsuit with Nano-Proprietary Inc. NNPP.OB as a reason for the delay. It is also delaying the launch to develop the technology to cut production costs, a step necessary to compete with LCD and plasma TVs, the company said."

They aren't abandoning the efforts to lower costs. . . they've *refocused* on them. I think a few words got skipped in a hurried reading and the opposite of the actual meaning has been conveyed ever since.]]>Sep 17th 2008 6:41PM