SED wins "Best of What's New 2005"
By Matt Burns 
posted November 16th 2005 10:39AM
posted November 16th 2005 10:39AM
All of us here at HD Beat are excited about SED displays and apparently Popular Science is as well. They have awarded the Canon/Toshiba technology with the Best of What’s New 2005 award. PopSci takes the best of the best new products each year and breaks them down into the different genres of science to reward the true innovators. I think all of us would agree that SEDs are an innovative and evolutionary product.
SED is an amazing spin on older technology. Everyone knows that tubes produce the best colors with the deepest blacks while having no issues with motion, but they offer a very small screen size in relation to heavy cabinets. SED takes the same process and turns it into a flat panel display. You can except displays in the 50-inch range that support 1080p during the first quarter of 2006.
We believe that this award did go to the right product as we can't think of a more innovative display technology this year then SED. Seriously, was there anything else this year in televisions that would warrant an award over SED?
I know Canon has been working on SED for years and I can't wait to see the performance. I've been holding out for something that has quality closer to that of tube, I love my HD 34" XBR Sony.
Yes, even my grandmother noticed the great image quality on my 35XBR48 CRT. SED can't come soon enough.
I so much love HDTV, even on my 30" demo unit from Sam's Club I got for $450. Can't wait to replace my 50 inch Mitsubishi in the living room with a SED TV.
This sucks... I want to go HD NOW! Are they going to be doing SED's in the 42" range? I've been eyeing that Panasonic professional 42" plasma, or a Sony LCD-P. But I will be just so, so dejected if I bite on one of those and then SED becomes available! What am I supposed to do?
Are these going to be available at smaller sizes for those of us in small houses? I want a screen of around 30", and want HD but still shudder at the poor quality of LCD/plasma (which are the only options for HD here in the UK at the moment). If a 30-32" 1080p SED screen came out, I would buy it without hesitation - this sounds like a brilliant bit of technology!
SED's replacement is a HDR display from BrightSide:
http://www.brightsidetech.com
not too far away from affordability (ok 4-5 years)
Yep we're keeping an eye on the HDR tech as well,
http://www.hdbeat.com/2005/10/05/brightside-hdr-preview/
but 4-5 years out is quite a ways, it should be incredible once it ever comes out.