Wow, what can be SED?

[LostInSpace]

If you are wondering what SED is, I will tell you. Well most of you might think of LCD and Plasma TV's as ruling the future. Although they are nice gizmos they do have their shorcomings. But here comes SED: Surface-conduction electron-emitter displays. In other words, Flat panel CRT's. That's right Flat panel CRT's. A SED display uses two panes of glass. the outer pane is coated with phosphors, just like CRT's. The inner pane is coated with electron emitters that fire charged particles at the phosphors located just a few millimeters away. The pixel density is much higher than conventional technologies. the whole package may be only four inches deep. SED basically has all the advantages of current CRT technology, including an extremely wide viewing angle and very bright display. The only difference between CRT and SED is that SED does not require electron beam deflection hence massive wall mounted displays can be as deep as your hand is wide. SED's also will not suffer the same deficiencies of a TFT, such as dead pockets, tipping and altitude limitations. Power consumption is also a plus using half the energy of a CRT and 33% of the power of a plasma display of the same size. Toshiba and Canon have been colaborating on developing this technology since 1999 and will soon see products hit North America

in 2004. Of course no mention of any pricing. I read about this just yesterday in a tech magazine and the author of the article states that details about all this are scarce and he wasn't kidding I would post some links about this but the ones I did find so far are very vague about SED's. Ah, I'll give ya a link anyway SED

[Supreme Cmdr]

Good thing I held off on buying an LCD monitor then.

[Huwie]

I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I also read that organic screens are being developed. They're coated with organic cells that can flouresce when an electrical charge is supplied. They're also bendy!

Here's a link that I quickly found. I have no particular affiliation with Toshiba, it's just the first link I found.

[Guest]

I think you may want to hold out on buying that SED Derek..

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/15/v...reut/index.html

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