[jaguar]

I heard that Canon will bring SED to the professional market. For them LCD is not good enough (still the blacklevels and the motion blurr) and Pioneer will stop the Curo in 2010.
So after a long time some spark of SED again.

[NicolasB]

I'd like to believe that, but I'm not holding my breath.

[jaguar]

I tracked down the source. It is this guy.

Display Daily » Blog Archive » NAB 2009: The Season of Their Discontent

[NicolasB]

Originally Posted by jaguar

I tracked down the source. It is this guy.

Display Daily » Blog Archive » NAB 2009: The Season of Their Discontent

Relevant bit:

I was asked on more than one occasion about the chances of Canon’s SED making a comeback, something I would not have bet money on after the Nano Technologies licensing debacle. However, a source within Canon told me at the show that the SED is still very much alive as a pro monitor technology. Indeed, a Canon SED engineer from Japan was quietly making the rounds in the Las Vegas Convention Center to scope out the competition.

Note: "pro monitor"; that section of the article is talking about screens intended for broadcast engineers and film editors. That is indeed a suitable target market for SED, but even if Canon does succeed in producing a device for that market, that doesn't mean there will be a consumer equivalent.

The next paragraph in the article is also interesting, if depressing, reading:

I was also peppered with questions about the recent demise of Field Emissive Technologies, which created plenty of buzz at last year’s NAB show with its 18-inch 720p and 26-inch 1080p FED monitors. As DD readers know, FET was a recent casualty of the economy and Sony’s inability to raise enough capital to retrofit an old Pioneer plasma facility for FED production.

So it looks like no FED devices either.