Posted on 10/03/2006 4:21:47 AM PDT by AZRepublican
SED televisions are similar to traditional tube televisions. Electrons are fired at a screen to create images. However, instead of coming out of a large electron gun, the electrons are fired from several thousand nano particles. One advantage is that SED televisions are much thinner than tube televisions.
The performance and picture quality will also be far higher than LCDs or plasmas, he said. The contrast ratio is 50,000 to 1, far higher than LCD or plasma, he said. The response time is a millisecond, thus the image blur or ghosting that can occur with some LCDs doesn't occur.
SED televisions will also last for 30,000 hours, putting them on par with traditional tube TVs. Power consumption of SED televisions is about half that of plasma, Umezu said, and lower than LCD.
Toshiba and Canon will not license the technology to other manufacturers, but the companies may reconsider in the future.
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Only problem is there's still not much on to watch :(
Can I see a sample picture? and not on my TV...
I still have my Toshiba that I bought in 1987. It still works.
How could any picture be better than the picture on a plasma TV? I can't imagine that.
Apparently, they haven't learned what happened to Sony's Betamax.
(Sidenote) I have been generally happy with the Toshiba products I have bought over the years, but wasn't there some deal where technology was (illegally?) sold to the Russians back during the Cold War?
Yeah, but it might go well with a new Blu-ray player/PS3. (Sorry Toshiba.)
This is getting complicated. I plan on replacing all the TV's in my house in a year or two when I move. The minute I think I know what I will look for another type hits the market.
Plasma TV's contrast ratio are about 10,000 to 1, versus this technology which is 50,000 to 1. That basically means your brights will look brighter and your blacks will lool blacker. 10,000 to 1 is still pretty good, so I am not sure most people will care. Only your videophiles will probably care.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Well, get ready.
SED IS that much better. It has blown away everyone who has seen it demonstrated.
Toshiba sold submarine propeller machining technology to the USSR in violation of a treaty with the US.
I wonder if these are subject to burn-in, like CRTs and plasmas.
Correction, Japan allowed Toshiba to sell the equipment in violation of the treaty.
Yup, if I recall it had something to do with submarines or propellors or something.
Anyway, the individuals involved in that are probably long dead or retired.
I don't look down on anyone who buys a VW or Mitsubishi, yet both of those companies made products that killed a lot more Americans.
Toshiba illegally (?) shared technology related to submarine propeller design (as I recall).
Milling machines for making submarine propellors that were more efficient with less cavitation.
Toshiba sold Russia some sophisticated CAD/CAM machining equipment that was aptly suited to manufacturing extremely "quiet" submarine propellers. I have not bought anything from Toshiba since the day I learned that almost 20 years ago....
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