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Spoudazo said:
I WOULD NOT buy an expensive LCD right now, I'd wait for the SEDs to come out. I'm using my an amazing $135 CRT monitor (21") and the image quality is so far above my $300 LCD I used to have and my $170 LCD I still have. :)

how long is sed away, how much would a 20' sed wide screen cost?
 
2008 is last I heard for SEDs. No idea what their cost will be like but I somehow doubt they'll be close to current LCD prices. There's actually a number of new different display technologies coming out in the next few years...if someone does get an LCD now they can always use it as a second monitor.
 
I recently got a Acer 19" Widescreen LCD (5ms), and it was only $189.
It works fine, no ghosting at all, no dead pixels, only downside it it has an Auto-ajust feature that automatically resizes resolutions to fit the 4 corners, so you're always stuck at 1440x900 resolution pretty much.
 
SED costs are to be competitive with LCDs, especially since they cost less to make than LCDs.
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/home_av/tvs/0,39037594,61956610,00.htm

http://gear.ign.com/articles/732/732563p1.html



The company has come up with some manufacturing breakthroughs on its surface conduction electron emitter or SED televisions that will allow it to come out with televisions that will be more competitive in price to large liquid crystal displays, Naoaki Umezu, the chief specialist on SED for Toshiba, said during a hallway conversation with reporters at CEATEC, a high-tech tradeshow taking place in the Tokyo area this week.

Umezu would not reveal what Toshiba and its partner Canon have changed in the manufacturing process. He also said SED televisions will sell at a premium over LCDs because they will provide a better viewing experience. Nonetheless, "it will be competitive with LCD", he said.

Price has been the sticking point for SED. Toshiba and Canon formed a joint venture around a concept a few years ago when plasma and LCD television prices were much higher. Since then, LCD prices have been dropping about 40 percent per year, and plasmas have been declining in price, too. Analysts and competitors have claimed the price declines were pushing SED to the margins. Toshiba and Canon delayed the launch of SED in March 2006 to July 2007. Originally, they were due to come out last year.
 
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