High Definition Televsion. Hear of it? Of course! Everyone is jumping on the HDTV bandwagon, but what technology should I invest in? Well, depends on several factors, but wait a second. Here comes another display technology. Mitsubishi will be accouncing this new method of display said to…
uses colored lasers to display bright, deep images on large, thin, lightweight screens — surpassing images seen on film. The television sets, which Mitsubishi is calling the first of their kind, are expected to reach stores sometime late next year.
It will consume a third of energy of older conventional models and having a smaller footprint than plasma and LCD displays. I think the writer said it best that…
“Television used to be very, very simple,” he said. “You bought a big one or a small one that was black and white or color.”
That has all changed, Mr. Schadler said. “Now we’ve got complexity like buying real estate or buying a car or something,” he said. “It’s just gotten tremendously complicated.”
Canon and Toshiba are working on a S.E.D. (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) television sets to be introduced sometime next year. SEDs are claimed to have the superior image quality found in CRT televsions but with the power consumption and thinness as LCD televisions.
Delaying the SED TV launch until next year isn’t going to help. I think they’re going to lose whatever momentum they have.