Sony-backed next-gen TV tech maker to close
Had trouble finding funding
A Field Emission Display (FED) TV business partly owned by Sony is to be liquidated, Japanese media report.
Field Emission Technologies planned to have 26in FED TVs out this year
Difficulty in raising funds for “the acquisition of plant and equipment investment” was the main reason behind the decision to shut Field Emission Technologies (FET) down, Japanese-language site AVWatch reports.
Sony owned 37.8 per cent of FET, which planned to launch a 26in FED TV at the end of 2009.
FED TVs are only a couple of millimetres thick. Images are generated by firing beams of electron from carbon nanotube emitters at phosphor-coated pixels.
The benefits of FED include an energy efficiency roughly twice that of LCD and the ability to generate much crisper images and better blacks than LCD can manage.
FED sets could also have been cheaper to produce because fewer components were required to display a picture, FET once claimed. ®
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Not cheaper
FED probably will be succeed LCD, The complexity of setting up a plant to manufacture them is far less than that of LCD or OLED - orders of magnitude cheaper.
These folk were making the panels with exotic materials to get a good quality picture, thus their panels were expensive.
The trick is to make the panels as cheaply as possible and make the electronics smart enough to coax a decent picture out of one. The HV nature of the drivers for these panels - 100s of volts swing on the control electrodes - precludes all but the simplest of driver arrangements until new IC processes are developed, which requires serious investment.
tin foil clothing a necessity?
maybe the em emissions from fed are so dangerous you need tin foil clothing whilst watching it. no wonder its been canned!!
@Anonymously Deflowered 26 Mar 12:44gmt
Yeah. I was just going to say... whoa! Somebody tell this guy that 80s retro is already played!
The man in the photo
Must be from the future. Look at his shiny silver jacket!
quick to talk up slow to compare.
So FED are better than LCD.. But are being canned how can this be? Is it because they are worse than OLED? seems noone will say..
easier to make than LCD! but are they easier to make than OLED?? seems noone will say...
quick to talk up slow to compare.
did they just get on the wrong train? probably
