Applied Nanotech Drops Sed Lawsuit Against Canon

[Stephen1503559573]

Interesting news. Could it finaly happen

http://www.dvhardware.net/article31680.html

FT reports the way for SED TVs has finally been cleared as Applied Nanotech lost a patent lawsuit that delayed progress on this technology for more than three years:

Nasdaq-listed Applied Nanotech, which had sued the Japanese company for illegally sublicensing its patents, told the Financial Times that it had decided not to appeal to the US Supreme Court. "It would probably be a futile effort," said Douglas Baker, Applied Nanotech's chief financial officer.

Canon can now press ahead with televisions based on surface-conduction electron-emitter displays, or SED. Such TVs can produce the wide viewing angle and deep colours of a traditional cathode-ray television, but are as thin as a liquid-crystal or plasma display.

SED is a rival technology to organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, a system backed by Sony and Samsung, and could shake up the huge market for televisions and monitors. Canon showed SED prototypes in 2006, but has yet to prove that it can mass produce televisions at a competitive price.

[madmax]

If it wasn't for all that bullsh1t we might actually have one in stores by now to admire, and possibly buy......

[spalmills]

If it wasn't for all that bullsh1t we might actually have one in stores by now to admire, and possibly buy......

You can shut the gate on this one, Maxie... it's the duck's guts!!

[Tweet]

As good as SED promises to be, the simple fact is that it has lost momentum to enter the marketplace.

Large plasmas and LCD's have become so affordable these days and have gone through so many generational changes that it would leave SED little room to edge its way in, regardless of its technical merits.

It is one thing to have a good product, it is another to market it ......as Toshiba well knows with HD DVD.

C.M

Edited December 4, 2008 by Tweet