Sed and FED are both great technologies but as time ticks on the price goes up. The main manufacturing advantage was that you could re purpose a CRT assembly line to produce them, so you saved a big chunk of cash not having to build a whole new factory.
As CRT fabs close the advantage shrinks. LCD's have managed to catch up at the high end prices. As a reference professional monitors cost about $1100 per inch, so a 30 inch monitor costs $33,000. It's only a matter of time for technology to drop into consumers hands.
It seems the time for fed and sed is approaching a close before even one product got to market.
It's more like the unending dream for MS to compete with Adobe and win. HDi may be pretty good for HD-dvd content authoring but what would it have on Flash or the more full featured Director?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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The main manufacturing advantage was that you could re purpose a CRT assembly line to produce them, so you saved a big chunk of cash not having to build a whole new factory.
As CRT fabs close the advantage shrinks. LCD's have managed to catch up at the high end prices. As a reference professional monitors cost about $1100 per inch, so a 30 inch monitor costs $33,000. It's only a matter of time for technology to drop into consumers hands.
It seems the time for fed and sed is approaching a close before even one product got to market.