Thursday, December 21, 2006

No SED at CES

For those of you looking forward to getting a peak at the new SED display jointly produced by a Toshiba-Canon venture at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the companies have this to say: No dice. Without revealing why, Toshiba sent a note of cancellation to people who had appointments to see the 55-inch surface conduction electron emitter display that the manufacturers tell us will blow the doors off of plasma and LCD in terms of both price and performance.

This project has been fraught with delays since its beginning in 1999, leaving me to wonder if it will ever really get off the ground. Maybe SED will prove to be better than plasma and LCD, but by the time it's available for purchase, will everyone already have bought something else?

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