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Kzoellner on 07 January 2009

Toshiba to expand the powers of the TV set-top box (AP)

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LAS VEGAS - Toshiba Corp. is planning to use the Cell processor, the brain of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console, to create an ultra-powerful TV set-top box that can record up to six high-definition channels at once and improve the look of any video.

The box and a separate flat-panel LCD TV will be sold as a package this year in Japan for between $5,000 and $10,000, said Scott Ramirez, vice president of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products. It may come later to the U.S., he told press gathered Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

Toshiba has been experimenting with several different ways to expand the use of the zippy Cell processor, which was jointly developed by Toshiba, Sony and IBM Corp. Toshiba has demonstrated laptops and TVs with Cell processors, but the PlayStation remains the main use for the chip.

The Cell TV box will accept video content from cable, memory chips and other sources, raise their apparent resolution, then send the video signal wirelessly to the TV, Ramirez said.

"You're going to have the cleanest picture you've ever seen," Ramirez said.

The box will also be able to record content to a hard drive, like a digital video recorder. It would thus combine the functions of several different set-top boxes, but it's unclear how it would work with cable or satellite hookups, particularly when it comes to recording several channels at once.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090107/ap_on_hi_te/tec_techbit_gadget_show_toshiba_tv



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Tyrannical on 08 January 2009
box that can record up to six high-definition channels at once and improve the look of any video.

I remember when Sony was first touting the CELL they claimed it could do 12 HD TV streams at the same time.



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Tuulikk on 08 January 2009
Tyrannical said:
box that can record up to six high-definition channels at once and improve the look of any video.

I remember when Sony was first touting the CELL they claimed it could do 12 HD TV streams at the same time.

With improvement to the streams to?

 



arsenicazure on 08 January 2009

That would be awesome.. but the limitation here being how many people can "stream" 6 HD channels at once on their set top boxes?



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Commando on 08 January 2009

You knoe I wonder how feesable and/or good enough of an idea would it be for SONY to release a TV with a PS3 built-in?

My concern would be heating issues and replacement, but I dunno, its like combo TVs were pretty popular back in th day. What do you all think about that?



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arsenicazure on 08 January 2009

I doubt it would do significant numbers. The heat generated by these boxes+ shrinking it to fit a TV+ most gamers like to move their consoles around.. A TV with a built in bluray drive might be a better idea..



Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

owner of : atari 2600, commodore 64, NES,gameboy,atari lynx, genesis, saturn,neogeo,DC,PS2,GC,X360, Wii

5 THINGS I'd like to see before i knock out:

a. a AAA 3D sonic title

b. a nintendo developed game that has a "M rating"

c. redesgined PS controller

d. SEGA back in the console business

e. M$ out of the OS business

Tyrannical on 08 January 2009
Tuulikk said:
Tyrannical said:
box that can record up to six high-definition channels at once and improve the look of any video.

I remember when Sony was first touting the CELL they claimed it could do 12 HD TV streams at the same time.

With improvement to the streams to?

 

The improvements are probably done by the GPU when it's actualy being displayed. Six is plenty though. The limiter could be the HDD.

 



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

badgenome on 08 January 2009
Commando said:
You knoe I wonder how feesable and/or good enough of an idea would it be for SONY to release a TV with a PS3 built-in?

My concern would be heating issues and replacement, but I dunno, its like combo TVs were pretty popular back in th day. What do you all think about that?

Yeah, they were great. I loved how the VCR always gave up the ghost long before the TV itself croaked.



DarkNight_DS on 08 January 2009

This is something that will quickly become a doorstop at Toshiba. Who's going to write apps for it? Who will maintain the product? If they don't sell millions upon millions why bother supporting the product once it's off the shelves?



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Words Of Wisdom on 08 January 2009
DarkNight_DS said:
This is something that will quickly become a doorstop at Toshiba. Who's going to write apps for it? Who will maintain the product? If they don't sell millions upon millions why bother supporting the product once it's off the shelves?

Why such hostility to this?  Is it because it uses a Cell processor which also happens to be used in the PS3?