Sony's Field Emission Technologies closing its doors
By Ross Miller 
posted Mar 26th 2009 1:39AM
posted Mar 26th 2009 1:39AM
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When I read that "FED's dead" I immediately thought of Bruce Willis saying "Zed's dead" in Pulp Fiction.
Bruce Willis shat Chuck Norris.
Good day to you.
ding ding ding!
I guess Sony is F.E.D UP!
Dime... bar....?
So much lost contrast ratio potential
What the world was this company?
why hasn't anyone heard of it?
I guess it must be the secret division of Dell with the agenda of trying to market Dell's products.
Do you lack the ability to read sire?
"...Sony. The company's(Sony's) spin-off Field Emission Technologies..."
Unless you were making a failure of an attempt at sarcasm.
Is that a pimp?
no, it's a sony!
He's actually the reason the company failed. Guy in a shiny jacket is never a sign of good taste.
Yes... poor taste....
Where can I get one of these shiny jackets?
What happened, OLED kicked your butt?
I hope this is not a trend. Closing doors to R&D due to recession could have some major repercussions...
Sound like Sony found oled to be the future, not fed. Thus closing down the latter of the two.
That's my dad right there! Proud of you dad.. look at what you have become.
Obvioulsy they spent too much cash on wardrobe, not enough on actual research.
Management and/or R&D geeks in silver jackets FTW. Pretty models are so 2008.
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"Can achieve close to the natural high-quality cathode-ray tube, a fine pixel emitter..."
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I have been totally in the dark about FED for some reason. If the technology held promise and was cheap enough and didn't have any other display technologies threatening it for the future market, I doubt they'd have a lack of funding happening.
I think we can all relate to totally crappy colours and viewing angles on nearly all consumer LCD panels (which most of the market seems to have taken a liking to for unrelated reasons), so one part of me weeps.
What about Canon's SED? That's one I had my eye on for years, but it's a rough road...
I would be sad, but since LED can be thinner and has practically instantaneous response time, I'm not. Almost seemed too much like plasma to really take off. Oh well, RIP.
lcd is sllloooowwwwwww compared to plasma (for TVs) too bad there isnt a smaller display panel (sub 30") plasma... plasma kikz rawkz on lcd
LED != LCD. LEDs are far more responsive than plasma, and are thinner and can completely turn off their pixels to make pure black.
Screw the displays, when are those shiny jackets going into mass production?!?
That's where the real money is. Shiny Silver Jackets - Coming Soon from your friends at Field Emission Technologies. Now with patent-pending shine technology. I bet you have to shine that thing after every wash.
Wait. When he says they can't get the funds for manufacturing, doesn't that mean that the technology is READY, and they just can't built the manufacturing plants? Seriously? Crap. OLED may be also interesting, but it is not really ready for bigger screens. While FED seems to be.
If thing is LCD displays up to 60" or so are already being mass-produced, so any new technology has to compete immediately with that. If we were still all watching 32" CRTs, the promise of a 50" FED display for for 10 grand would be exciting. When you can get a 60" LCD for 5k, not so much.
True, but if FEDs target computer screens, they can get away with a higher price per " if the quality is right. I'm thinking of photographers etc. But I suppose the manufacturing costs would be too high to reach a large audience.
interesting
I thought Sorny manufactures them
I WANT HIS JACKET!!!
At least that guy gets to keep his silver 80's jacket.
this is horrendous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
worst news today!
shit man, fuck LCD/Plasma i wanted a OLED/FED war!
CRT Contrast and OLED size all day everyday and none of the color issues with OLED and the same power consumption. scrap OLED give me a cell phone with a 1080p FED ill be happy
and what happened to canon/toshiba's sed? where's that at?