SED TVs are on deck

So before you go out and drop a few grand on that new flat-screen TV we should probably tell you that Toshiba is announcing a new line of high-end (read: really freaking expensive) sets using SED that are due out in '05. SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter) technologies really don't get all that much coverage (so we'll forgive you if you've never heard of this), but basically it's a new display tech that gets you CRT picture quality in a unit that's just several-centimeters thick  and has about a third the energy consumption of plasma displays. Start saving up now.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:39AM]

I remember dreaming up a thin CRT-like display using individual emitters for each phosphor back when I was in like 6th grade. I looked at the big, rolled up maps above the chalkboard, and thought it would be cool if you could have a TV that just unrolled like that. I even drew a little side-view of the phosphors and the emitters behind them (mine were shaped like triangles). Now maybe it's actually going to be made! Cool.