Thursday, March 09, 2006

Another New Display Technology Gets Delayed

Toshiba and Canon announced this week that their joint efforts to produce SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) TVs have been delayed until the summer of 2007 and that they won’t really heavily begin marketing them until the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It’s merely the latest production delay for the new flat-panel technology, which was supposed to have been initially rolled out last fall and then was pushed back to this spring. According to CNET News, the issue has been that the two manufacturers didn’t expect plasma and LCD prices to drop so quickly, so they have been forced to try to determine how to manufacture SED TVs less expensively.

The full story is here:
http://news.com.com/Toshiba%2C+Canon+delay+SED+TV+launch+to+2007/2100-1041_3-6047405.html?tag=fd_nbs_ent&tag=nl.e433

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