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Wasn't entirely sure if this should go on Games or SH/SC, seeing it's mostly about a form of technology that was devised for TVs. Surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) and Field emission display (FED) are/were a technology that would bring the advantages of CRT (no native resolution issues, instant rendering, etc) into the flat panel age and they had been in development throughout the 00's. Yet, in spite of early promising results, nothing much came out of it. In 2010 Canon stopped developing SED while Sony, the big backer of FED, allowed another company to buy that patent portfolio in 2010. This company, AU Optronics Corporation from Taiwan, planned to release FED panels commercially for the big public soon after, but a mere year after the acquisition they halted development citing the technology not being ready for mass production. Five years ago is an eternity in the technological world. I haven't heard about anything like this since then, however. Sadly, those two seems to be pretty much dead and nothing apparently came out as an attempt to evolve or replace those. I imagine because in a world now focused on 4K resolutions in LCD (and the differences between TN and IPS now becoming a selling point for the general public) there's really no place for those "weird" panels? What would be the market for them? Retrogaming? Am I missing something or that much covers it? Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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Jan 11, 2016 15:06
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It's dead jim. Its not coming back. LCD and OLED are the future.
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Jan 11, 2016 15:50
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Just be glad OLED seems like it may survive. For a while there it seemed like the future was LCD panels and greyish blacks for eternity.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:34
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SED got killed by a political fallout between Canon and Toshiba over who controlled the research group that was working on it. FED was cost cut as sony hemorrhaged money, and AU Optronics realized after buying it how much money new tech really costs, and stopped bothering. OLED is basically going to be it for the consumer future, though SED or FED could both be resuscitated for certain applications (military mostly) as the screens will last a long, long, long time without suffering burn in or fade issues. P.S. They both have/had grids of pixels controlled by individual transistors, so all the same native / non-native issues LCD's and OLED 'suffer' from also apply to SED and FED.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:52
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Ah, well, that's what I wanted/needed to hear, EoRapot. I was under the wrong assumption that SED/FED didn't suffer from native resolution issues and would have been perfect as the all in one TV (modern + retro stuff), so I guess in the end those two fading out wasn't that big a loss. There never will be an all purpose TV, will there? Keeping a monster CRT for old gaming is incovenient as hell, but welp. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Jan 12, 2016 17:03
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Couldn't a good 4k display essentially function the same way in terms of resolution changes? I would think the pixels would be sufficiently small enough to not introduce any noticeable visual differences.
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