If the battle for flat-screen supremacy between plasma and LCD wasn't already heated enough, a third entrant is poised to join the fray next year when Canon and Toshiba take the wraps off SED, or surface-conduction election-emitter display. From a technical standpoint, SED is more similar to CRT than either plasma or LCD, and essentially combines the superior picture quality of SED with the flat-panel appeal of LCD and plasma. Its backers say that it offers the strengths of both plasma and LCD without any of their weaknesses, such as poor black levels and high power consumption.
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