SED Quotes

With the announcement that the first stages of mass production are due to begin in July 2007 and with SED TVs expected to go on sale soon after in the fourth quarter of 2007 we will be keeping an eye out on quotes from Canon and Toshiba management for anything SED related.

Sept 15, 2006

Nihon Keizai Shimbun quotes Canon chairman Fujio Mitarai as cautioning "We want to be able to mass-market the products in time for the shopping season for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, but we have not yet established the manufacturing technology for mass-producing SEDs at low cost."

June 20, 2006

Toshiba Corp. plans to begin full-scale mass production of surface-conduction electron-emitter display, or SED, televisions it is developing in cooperation with Canon Inc. in early 2008, its president Atsutoshi Nishida said in an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun.

June 12, 2006

"We aim to gain a 20 percent share in the global market for large, flat-screen TVs in 2010, helped by our high quality that other companies will not be able to imitate."

"SED technologies are complicated. But their quality is visibly superior."

Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida

May 31, 2006

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Hitachi Ltd. will triple the liquid crystal display panel production capacity at a joint venture in Mobara, Chiba Prefecture.

Consequently, the annual capacity at IPS Alpha Technology Ltd., the venture the two firms set up last year in cooperation with Toshiba Corp., will become the equivalent of 5 million 32-inch LCD panels, the two said.

But Toshiba will refrain from joining the greater investment plan this time, partly because it will put priority on developing the next-generation flat-screen SED TV in conjunction with Canon Corp., industry officials said.

May 11, 2006

"I am 99.9 percent confident of Canon's release of SED televisions next year."

Tsuneji Uchida, Canon Vice President

March 09, 2006

Toshiba and Canon played down the apparent delay in the launch of the products, saying they would be in time for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which are expected to be an opportunity to sell TVs.

"Toshiba and Canon consider the launch of SED TVs to be a major industry milestone, a once-in-50-years historical turning point for the TV industry, comparable to the initial introduction of CRT television," they said.

March 07, 2006

Yoshihide Fujii, Senior Vice President of Toshiba Corp describes the SED TV's picture quality as "having more potential than any other TV panel technology," and expects the pricing to receive "a 10-20% premium over the price of PDP and LCD TVs."

March 02, 2006

"The goal is for SED to become the industry standard,"

Robert Gumiela, senior marketing director for television at Toshiba of Canada Ltd.