[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Saint Troy

I don't think SED is really going to happen anytime soon, Toshiba just bailed and sold their share of the joint venture to Canon, due to the cost of production. Toshiba also is leaving the plasma market as they, like sony, were using another company to make their plasmas for them (lg in Toshiba's case) and this practice is not profitable with increasing price erosion. As far as LCD vs Plasma, I feel if you are looking for a TV larger than 40", then you should look at Plasma, they have better black levels, and much better response time. LCD is great for smaller panels, or if you are watching in a bright environment, as plasmas will give off significant glare. Panasonic are making great plasmas imo, and at very reasonable prices (and no i'm not a rep).

The story I read said the issue with SED was patents. The company with the patent licensed Canon to use SED. When Canon joined with Toshiba the patent holder cried foul saying that Toshiba was NOT licensed to use SED. It was Toshiba who was going to do the production of the sets. So now Canon has bought out Toshiba's share and needs to figure out how to economically produce these sets. From the timelines I've seen this has pushed SED back at least 18 months and maybe permanently if they can't get production ramped up fast/cheap enough.

There is another tech similar to DLP except instead of using tiny mirrors it uses lasers and has another level of potential brightness/colour saturation.