New TV to use the CELL ~

[ChronotriggerJM]

NJ5 said:

ChronotriggerJM said:
If I may ask, what makes the cell chip any better for this kind of stuff than your average chip? I actually don't know... But kudo's to Toshiba for utilizing assets :D

"can record up to six high-definition channels at once and improve the look of any video."

Basically they can use one SPE to decode each channel, since channels are independent of each other (little to no synchronization is needed between the SPEs). Also, the SPE's instruction set is good for decoding video streams as it has SIMD instructions which are usually easily applied to multimedia applications.

 

That makes sense :P I didn't think it would be something so basic. Awesome to know though!