Just when you thought you were up with the latest technology :-)

"Toshiba plans to stop manufacturing and selling plasma display panel 
(PDP) TVs in Japan by next summer, and then discontinue the products 
in other markets after that. The company will instead focus on 
surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) TVs, according to 
the Japan-based Jiji Press News, as quoted by Bloomberg."

        http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20041227A3014.html

A SED is effectively a flat cathode ray tube. Electrons (tunnel 
a)cross a small 'horizontal' gap under potentials of typically only 10 
to 20 volts. Scattered electrons are accelerated across a "vertical" 
gap by a typically 10 kV potential to excite a phosphor. There is one 
emitter per pixel.


        RM 

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