Sony Invests on Display Technologies

If Sony bas been associated during many years with innovation and technologies, it has been heavily impacted by Apple and its iPod, making the "walkman" part of the history. Other technology changes have also been partially or entirely missed by the Japanese companies, such as the end of the CRT TV, and the exponential growth of the LCD display market.
In a new move to avoid reproducing the same forecasting mistakes, the company decided to massively invest into display-linked technologies, including OLED, but also FED, a system making use of small electron "gun".
Sony plans to manufacture the first 26" FED displays in 2009 in a fabrication plan where Pioneer was previously producing its plasma TV. Such display will initially be dedicated to Pro-users, and one will have to wait longer before seeing such technology brought to the consumer electronic mass market.