Any Info on FEDs @ CEDIA??
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No one at Samsung was qualified to discuss the matter and also would. It does not appear as part of the product plans anytime soon, though.
Toshiba said they will bury plasma and eliminate it from the market next year. OK, this was a young punk, but that was the short of the message. I nodded, asked where the prototype was, they didn't have one (of course) and moved on.
Toshiba said they will bury plasma and eliminate it from the market next year. OK, this was a young punk, but that was the short of the message. I nodded, asked where the prototype was, they didn't have one (of course) and moved on.
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Below is from optics-org. It is a little dated, but sure got my ears up. If the resolution and PQ is there, FEDs, of one kind of another, will quickly dominate the video market.
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The FED is dead: long live the FED
This was the title of the presentation given by Bill Taylor, technical director of PFE, to the DisplaySearch conference in San Diego, California, US, in March.
Practically the only company with an optimistic vision of the future of FEDs, PFE aims to produce devices with cheap screen printing processes. It has so far received £7.5 m (€12.2 m) from venture capitalists (the latest round in November 2001: £3 m from 3i, Quester and NIF). The company is also negotiating with Asian manufacturers for much larger funding.
PFE's stated aim is to fill what it perceives to be the "20-40 inch gap" in the TV market. According to predictions by Stanford Resources for large display manufacturing costs, in 2010 LCDs will cost $1.5/inch2, tip-based FEDs will cost $1.3/inch2, and plasma and OLEDs will cost $1/inch2. Using the same model, PFE comes up with a cost of $0.5-$0.6/inch2. So, the PFE solution should be a third of the price of LCDs and half the lowest predicted for PDPs (see graph).
Taylor says that a printable FED at 32 inch would cost about $400 to make and would sell for around $1200; a 42 inch device would cost about $550 and sell for $1500-1800 in the shops.
PFE's prototype
PFE's latest prototype (see photograph) is being tested following the installation of a state-of-the-art etcher that provides greater process control. Full video-rate pictures without motion artefacts are now routinely being shown, says the company. Picture quality will also be further enhanced in the near future as two major technological enhancements are incorporated. Electronic compensation will be used to improve the uniformity from pixel to pixel, and a resistive ballast layer will enhance uniformity within each pixel.
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Veeeerrrry interesting!
Dsmith
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The FED is dead: long live the FED
This was the title of the presentation given by Bill Taylor, technical director of PFE, to the DisplaySearch conference in San Diego, California, US, in March.
Practically the only company with an optimistic vision of the future of FEDs, PFE aims to produce devices with cheap screen printing processes. It has so far received £7.5 m (€12.2 m) from venture capitalists (the latest round in November 2001: £3 m from 3i, Quester and NIF). The company is also negotiating with Asian manufacturers for much larger funding.
PFE's stated aim is to fill what it perceives to be the "20-40 inch gap" in the TV market. According to predictions by Stanford Resources for large display manufacturing costs, in 2010 LCDs will cost $1.5/inch2, tip-based FEDs will cost $1.3/inch2, and plasma and OLEDs will cost $1/inch2. Using the same model, PFE comes up with a cost of $0.5-$0.6/inch2. So, the PFE solution should be a third of the price of LCDs and half the lowest predicted for PDPs (see graph).
Taylor says that a printable FED at 32 inch would cost about $400 to make and would sell for around $1200; a 42 inch device would cost about $550 and sell for $1500-1800 in the shops.
PFE's prototype
PFE's latest prototype (see photograph) is being tested following the installation of a state-of-the-art etcher that provides greater process control. Full video-rate pictures without motion artefacts are now routinely being shown, says the company. Picture quality will also be further enhanced in the near future as two major technological enhancements are incorporated. Electronic compensation will be used to improve the uniformity from pixel to pixel, and a resistive ballast layer will enhance uniformity within each pixel.
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Veeeerrrry interesting!
Dsmith
While I agree this is very interesting, I don't agree these will quickly dominate the market.
The literally billions of dollars being spent to build LCD and plasma plants means that those are not going to cede their market position at all quickly or easily.
LCD, at 32", and plasma (perhaps also LCD), at 42", will be easily able to match those prices cited by 2005-06.
Anyway, FEDs are cool. Never anyone able to build them at any price has been the issue. Toshiba / Canon likely to be first to market with real products. Then perhaps a Motorola licensee in 24-36 months.
The literally billions of dollars being spent to build LCD and plasma plants means that those are not going to cede their market position at all quickly or easily.
LCD, at 32", and plasma (perhaps also LCD), at 42", will be easily able to match those prices cited by 2005-06.
Anyway, FEDs are cool. Never anyone able to build them at any price has been the issue. Toshiba / Canon likely to be first to market with real products. Then perhaps a Motorola licensee in 24-36 months.
They were at 20" at last check with a prototype. That doesn't sound like close to production. Also, with their hands deep into plasma and LCD, I wonder if they'd seriously add a third flat-panel tech right now. Three or four years down the road? Sure, but probably not now.
Well, if for $1,500 I had to choose between a 900K pixel 42" plasma and a 2-3 million pixel 42" FED with superior brightness/contrast that also uses just a couple of dozen watts/hr, I know which one I would choose. Okay, that's purely hypothetical, but pretty much in accord with what I have read so far.
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