Toshiba unveils TV based on Cell chip processor
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 15:30 IST
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Toshiba unveils TV based on Cell chip processor
Bangalore: Toshiba has launched the first television based on Cell multimedia processor, Cell Rezga 55X1. The chip allows the television to record simultaneously from eight high-definition channels. It uses Cell Broadband Engine jointly developed by IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba which allows users to use broadband on the television. The Cell Rezga has a huge 55 inch screen which provides high definition picture quality and a contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1. It has an inbuilt 3TB hard disk which allows users to record 26 hours of programming for up to eight channels. All a user has to do is shift to the 'time-shift machine' function. The TV can also show eight channels in small windows split screen. The Cell platform achieves an arithmetic processing capability approximately 143 times that of the current Toshiba TV, allowing it to support advanced image-enhancing capabilities. Cell multimedia processor is also used by Play Station 3. Users can use Opera browser to surf through internet and also watch YouTube videos. Video content from the internet viewed on a TV tends to be blurred, due to the lack of resolution and noise compression. Rezga uses 'super resolution technology' which detects the noise compression of low-resolution internet content and then separates and corrects the image to reproduce a sharper, clearer image more suited to a larger screen. The Cell Rezga 55X1 will be available in December in Japan at a price of one million yen (around $11,175). Toshiba expects to sell about 1,000 of the TVs per month when it first launches in Japan. Apart from Japan, it will first arrive in the U.S. sometime in 2010.

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