Posted on 10/10/2009 3:25:04 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Toshiba's first TV based on the Cell microprocessor made its debut at a Japanese trade show this week. The DVR-capable product will hit the shelves in Japan later this year and will make its U.S. debut sometime next year.
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.
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Looks great. But I’ll not buy one until Toshiba’s competition sells them.
INDEED.
Their giving sub propeller secrets to Russia was intolerable.
I view that little action of theirs as an attempt to kill me, albeit indirectly. I take that kinda personally.
Me too. Have never bought any Toshiba product since.
I never understood why Pres. Reagan didn’t cancel their import license.
What’s the target market for 8 simultaneous TV windows?
1. ADHD afflicted?
2. Sports junkies?
3. Investment brokers?
4. Obamaniacs?
5. Shopping channels + Shamwow + Grout steam cleaners + magic bullet food choppers?
6. ???
INDEED.
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE.
I realize that it’s all the same oligarchic globalist cabal
however . . .
that was sooooooooooooo far over the line.
No purchases from me, for sure.
I thought they sold special milling machines to them.
I forget all the details.
But it included infor and tech enabling the Russians to duplicate some of our highly classified highly effective secrets on sub props.
I hope you meant 'multi-axes'. ('Multi-axis' is also used frequently, though not strictly correct, IMO.)
Anyway...no matter how much they continue to improve the resolution of TV, what does it matter when the content continues to suck?
Nifty! Thanks, Dave ....................... FRegards
When I do watch TV (rare), there’s about 8 channels I’m interested in. Given that channel-surfing sucks (response time is horrible; too many channels to click thru), would be nice to throw every interesting channel up on-screen at the same time so I can better review them all faster all at once.
Also important is recording several channels at once, with enough capacity to not have to decide which I want to sacrifice.
And yes, I’m the kind of information junkie who would like to have >8 simultaneous TV windows open. Breaking news in particular warrants such visualization. Most of the time what little worth watching is so inane that I can watch multiple channels at once (just give me subtitles).
It’s amazing how usage advances when information response times become instant.
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