Toshiba ramping down Plasma for SED Televisions
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Surface conduction Electron emitter Display (SED) television sets make sense and Toshiba is definitely progressing in the right direction by shifting their focus away from LCD Plasma technology.
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Canon and Toshiba will establish a joint venture next month to manufacture and market panels for large TVs using SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) technology, the two companies said on Tuesday.
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(2nd para corrected)  Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)--Toshiba Corp.  has developed an environmentally friendly technology to strip semiconductor resist jointly with two other firms, the major electronics maker said Monday.  The two are Shibaura Mechatronics Corp.
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Plasma TV suppliers such as Panasonic  maker Matsushita Electric (6752.T), already outnumbered by the  rival LCD camp, are expected to lose further ground as LCD TVs  encroach on the 40-inch-class market, a plasma stronghold.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Canon 7751.T and Toshiba   6502.T said on Tuesday they would start mass production of   ultra-thin flat-panel TVs in early 2008, entering a market   dominated by makers such as Matsushita Electric Industrial   6752.T and Samsung Eletronics 005930.KS.
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Toshiba is announcing that they plan to shift a portion of their TV line to the SED technology (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display).
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With over-the-air television broadcasts switching from analog to digital in just over a year, converter boxes are expected to be among the hot devices on display at next week's CES.
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Toshiba Corp. has a new flat-panel TV that delivers clear imagery comparable to the old-style cathode-ray tubes by using similar beam-emitting technology.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Toshiba Corp  is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high-definition video, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp , a company source said on Saturday.
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Two days after it lost an important ally in the high-definition format battle, Toshiba put on a defiant face at the Consumer Electronics Show and declared the HD DVD format is a long way from being dead.&quot;We remain firm in the belief that HD DVD is the format best suited to the wants and needs of consumers,&quot; said Akio Ozaka, head of Toshiba America Consumer Products, at a news conference. He said Toshiba was surprised by the announcement, which came on Friday, that&#160;Warner Bros. was dropping HD DVD&#160;and exclusively backing Blu-ray.&#160; &quot;We are especially surprised that this decision was made in spite of the significant momentum that HD DVD has gained in the U.S. market and other regions.&quot;Warner was the only major Hollywood studio releasing movies on both formats and the decision to go with Blu-ray Disc meant Toshiba has only two major studios, Paramount and Universal, backing its technology.The decision also left Toshiba with a potential public relations disaster as it came just days before CES, the annual North American gathering of the consumer electronics industry that kicks off officially here on Monday. In response to the Warner news the HD DVD Promotion Group canceled its news conference, leaving some to conclude that backers of the format were ready to concede defeat.&quot;As you can imagine this is a tough day for me,&quot; said Jodi Sally, vice president of marketing for digital audio and video products at Toshiba America Consumer Products. &quot;It&#39;s difficult for me to read all the pundits declare that HD DVD is dead. Clearly the events of the last few days have led you to that conclusion but we&#39;ve been declared dead before.&quot;But Toshiba might have a hard time convincing the analysts and media that follow the battle closely that HD DVD is still in the race.&quot;It&#39;s interesting the CEO said he was surprised. I think that&#39;s an understatement. Devastated would probably be more accurate,&quot; said Peter King, an analyst at U.K.-based Strategy Analytics, who attended the Toshiba news conference.&quot;They really have an uphill battle,&quot; he said. &quot;They are left with a couple of the smaller studios but there is no doubt the major studios have voted with their feet. It&#39;s hard to see now what they can do. Maybe focus on the PC market as a format, but they have a major struggle and that was very clear today.&quot;King wasn&#39;t willing to call the battle over just yet but he said a lot would depend on comments made during CES by other industry leaders, like&#160;Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is scheduled to speak in Las Vegas Sunday evening.But if the battle is over then what&#39;s bad news for Toshiba will be good news for consumers and the consumer electronics industry, he said. &quot;Everybody in the industry can get behind one format [and] start promoting. The message will be simple and clear, prices will come down and it&#39;s a good thing for the industry.&quot;Toshiba said 1 million HD DVD players are currently in the market in North America.In a statement issued on Saturday the company also expressed surprise over Warner&#39;s move &quot;despite the fact that there are various contracts in place between our companies concerning the support of HD DVD.&quot; On Sunday it didn&#39;t elaborate on those contracts or what its next move may be in the march to make HD DVD the de facto replacement for DVD for high-definition content.
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Toshiba Corp  is planning to give  up on its HD DVD format for high-definition video, conceding  defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp  , a company source said on Saturday.
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Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a flat-panel TV that uses a new technology developed jointly by the Japanese electronics maker and the Japanese camera company Canon.
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HDTV manufacturers are trying to make the task of buying an HDTV set much more difficult than just choosing between LCD and plasma, 42 inches or 46 inches.
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A TOSHIBA TV sparked an international rescue operation yesterday when it decided it had enough of watching bad American television and radioed for assistance.
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It reads like a VIP list of failures - Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Intel, and Philips. Each of these technology powerhouses tried to conquer a promising technology for making thin, big-screen televisions -- called
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Japan's Toshiba Corp. 6502.T will  introduce laptop computers with HD DVD technology in December  2005, aiming to pressure rivals in the battle over formats for  next-generation DVDs, the Nihon Keizai daily said on Wednesday.