SED TVs: coming in late 2007
`We all know the SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) story — RGB electron guns firing at phosphors to produce image quality as good as or better than that of a high-end CRT but in a package the size of a flat-screen LCD or plasma display and all at one low, low power consumption. Throw in talk of million-to-one contrast ratios and you have the idea. But where are the SED products we’ve been promised by the pioneers, Canon and Toshiba, for so long?
We bet you guessed we were gonna answer that and you’re not wrong — the two companies just announced that they’re starting production in July 2007 and expect to see SED TVs on the market by the fourth quarter of the same year. [..]