Not happy with being the main driver behind getting anorexic OLED TVs from the lab into our homes, Sony has just taken a big step to make its FED TV technology the next LCD. FED, or Field Emission Display, technology was unveiled for the first time last year but now Sony's company Field Emission Technologies Inc. has agreed to take over Pioneers' closing plasma display production plant in a deal worth up to £100 million. Mass production is expected to kick off next year, targeting the medical markets with 26in models to start before assaulting our living rooms and wallets after that. FED panels promise better video quality than LCD and no image blurring during fast moving video. It replaces LCD's backlighting for lighting technology based on the principles used in older CRT TVs and it even manages to use half the power of a typical LCD TV, so it'll be green as hell. Sony's XEL OLED TV is already one of the sexiest little - yet shockingly expensive - new TV types out there so there's every likelihood that FED tellies will be priced a lot more competitively. Still, it will be 2010 before we have to worry about them by which time we'll have 60in LCD TVs.-Martin Lynch TV OLED sony
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