Jason Dunn
06-02-2005, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121083,tk,dn060105X,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121083,tk,dn060105X,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Toshiba and Canon are investing $1.7 billion to build a factory that will make panels for a new type of flat-panel TV based on SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) technology, Toshiba said Tuesday. The investment cost of the factory--to be built at an existing Toshiba site in western Japan, in Himeji--will be split evenly between the two companies. Construction is scheduled to begin later this year, and the factory will start producing 15,000 50-inch panels per month in January 2007, according to Hiroko Mochida, a spokeswoman for Toshiba."</i><br /><br />If the price point is right, this might be a winner - images as bright as a CRT, 1/3rd less power than a plasma, and no delay like you get with slow LCD TVs. Might be a winner - it would be very curious to see the word Canon on my TV set though...