[quote]Sony dumped FED last week which makes me :cry:
SED was shown off pretty heavily at CES in 2006, but its been absent ever since even though they claim that its going great.
That tells me either the cost of production was too high, or they couldn't get enough interest from investors and/or partners. Part of the problem is the economy the way it is now makes the timing bad for releasing drastically new tech.
There was a HUGE patent lawsuit by a small company. I'm surprised you didn't hear about it. The patent issue was cleared up, but the tech was delayed long enough that it might be the nail in the coffin for SED. It wasn't an investment issue either, Canon dumped very literally billions of dollars into SED, only to have the patent issue prevent them from releasing consumer displays. Last I heard, they were going to try to market SED as a professional display.
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/canon-free-to-release-sed-tvs-after-winning-patent-lawsuit-2008124/