Advertisement

Toshiba delaying SED sets until 2007?

SED

If the translated story is accurate, we won't be seeing SED sets in 2006 after all. What a cryin' shame since we're not so secretly lusting after the flat-panels that mash the best of CRTs with a slim screen. Apparently, Toshiba can't procure or produce enough panels to create the SED sets that they jointly developed with Canon, so their current trial run of 1,000 units per month won't be increasing. The basic tech behind SED isn't that different from CRTs; instead of one giant electron gun for all the pixels there are individual electron emitters near the screen surface for each pixel. Sounds like the emitters are easy to find or build; it's those darn CRT SED panels in a 50-plus-inch size.