Toshiba Shows Cell TV
Four years in the making, the Cell chip was developed by Toshiba, IBM, and Sony and is currently used in the PlayStation 3. It contains a single Power PC core and eight coprocessors.
Using the set's three-terabyte hard drive, the DVR function can use two-thirds of its space to record 26 hours simultaneously from eight channels (the number available in Tokyo). The other one-third of disc space can save other programming separately from the recording function. The Cell chip can also show up to eight channels on the same screen. The broadband-enabled set contains the Opera browser and is compatible with YouTube and DLNA networking.
The prototype shown at CEATEC, the Japanese trade show, was in a 50-inch Regza 55X1 LCD TV. Its LED backlighting covered 512 areas, pushing luminance to 2.5 the level of average LCDs. Toshiba also showed a 3D version of the new product, as did several other manufacturers at CEATEC, though it's worth noting that various standard-setting bodies have yet to come up with a unified 3D standard.
See coverage in TechWorld and This Week In Consumer Electronics.
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