Mass market SED HDTVs by 2008?

Yeah, we know that Toshiba and Canon promised us a complete line-up of SED TVs by March of this year, and we don't quite buy their "drop in LCD / Plasma prices caused the delay" excuse, but we'll let them off the hook just this once. According to the slacking partner companies, we should expect to see mass-market availability of SED HDTVs by 2008, just in time for the next major sports event / HDTV-push: the Beijing Olympics. The make or break factor for SED is how much it's going to cost consumers, so it's not encouraging to hear Canon chairman Fujio Mitarai say "we have not yet established the manufacturing technology for mass-producing SEDs at low cost." With the price of Plasmas and LCDs dropping all the time, they better figure out how to make SED TVs cheap, otherwise they run the risk of the benefits of SED -- CRT performance in an LCD sized package -- becoming irrelevant to the average consumer.

[Via HDBeat]

[Mitch @ Sep 13th 2006 3:54AM]

Go to bed!

[Dave @ Sep 13th 2006 4:07AM]

But I love staying up to hear about SED HDTVs that won't be low cost enough for me to buy for another five years

AGH! I have to wake up for work in four hours!

[Maff @ Sep 13th 2006 5:18AM]

3:12am? NUTS!!!!!

[Intrepid @ Sep 13th 2006 5:25AM]

SED? CRT evolved? Why don't they just focus on improving the already proven LCD/OLED/ETC style technologies.

[LGN @ Sep 13th 2006 7:02AM]

Ok, have either of you seen an SED display?
LCD/Plasma/DLP all looks like crap in comparison.
SED is much brighter, has much better colour reproduction and much better depth of field. It just blows all the current technologies away. It's a shame they haven't figured out how to make them cheaply as yet, but hey, this is the next big thing in TV technology. First units from Toshiba should be 55"

[hondosan @ Sep 13th 2006 9:22AM]

2008? i hope they stop moving the release date and actually start selling these displays before my crt goes to heaven.

[boe @ Sep 13th 2006 10:30AM]

I did check out the prototype SED at CES and it did look great but 2008!?! I would imagine by then TSED,LCOS or some other technology should have caught up with it visually. The rumor is that their largest sets the first year of production will only be 55". By 2008 I would hope that most major brands are offering 80" units. Let's face it - 10 years ago a 60" was BIG - now that is pretty much standard. Not many 80" units have been made because they couldn't make them look as good as the smaller units because of the technology. LCOS should let you make a nice looking unit that big and so should others using the better technology available today.

[hoochie @ Sep 14th 2006 4:19AM]

ive been waiting all of 2006 to get a computer with vista latest graphics ect, im waiting on S.E.D pc monitors to come out, im really not in the mood for a dead pixel lcd display! there is no cure for dead pixels, im hanging to my 10 year old crt until the sed monitors come out, but if they dont come out before 2007 im just gonna wait for the q1 x4 blue ray dvd burners for pc to come out and then buy another 20'' crt and keep it another 10 years so its their loss not mine, sick of waiting around here.

[SED TV Forums @ Sep 15th 2006 11:25AM]

With the amount of money SED Inc has poured into this so far, they'd better make it work. The competition is not going to wait for Canon and Toshiba.

[chandu @ Sep 27th 2006 8:14AM]

hi
for Software selling???