Deadpool Report: Sony FET to close its doors

Field Emission Displays may be the future according to some industry pundits, but not for Sony apparently. Add their unit to the deadpool.

Sony’s spin-off unit Field Emission Technologies, whose main purpose was to develop the high-tech displays that some have hailed “the future of television”, has closed its doors due to lack of interest and funding for making them.

After years of press releases, teasing and a real demo unit released to the public just a few scant months ago, it’s a bit sad to see a new approach to the techonology close. With the economic climate around the world the way it is, this has become a recurrent theme nowadays. Sony stated that the spin-off would be closed effective immediately, and some of the tech discovered with the unit would be brought in-house for future development.