Back in 2004, Canon – a company known for their cameras – got together with Toshiba to announce the Next Big Thing in TV technology: SED. Five years later, SED has become the television equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever – a lofty concept that sounded great, but we’ve given up on ever seeing its arrival.
To get around IP lawsuits, Canon plans on developing their own SED technology that works better than the type they’re being sued over. [Bloomberg]
In an interview with the NY Times, Mitsubishi has promised that a large-screen version of their legendary Laser TV will make it to CES next year. Does that have absolutely anything to do with if and when these sets will make it into our homes?
No. And no matter what anyone has ‘SED’, it means absolutely nothing more at this time than Mitsubishi can make one unit for a bajillion dollars. Personally, I find generalized LED incorporation a lot more promising over the next five years of displays than any technologies traditionally associated with 70s rock concerts and killer sharks.
Of course, I only say that because I’ve been hurt before (damn you, SED). Please, please, please make our dreams of perfect, cheap, utopian displays come to fruition, Mitsubishi. And then we’ll take back our line about the sharks and that stuff we may or may not have said about your mothers.
Looks like Canon and Toshiba are delaying SEDs yet again. This time around they’re claiming they need more time to figure out how to mass produce the panels at an affordable price. SEDs were at one time a promising technology combining the best elements of a plasma, LCD and CRT at a cheap price, but at this rate, they’ve become a prime example of vapourware. Sorry SED, as much as we tried rooting for you, you just keep letting us down. – Louis Ramirez
Toshiba, Canon Delay SED TV Debut Again [Reg Hardware]
