Toshiba have been showing off a new TV powered by the PS3’s cell processor. The all-new gogglebox is clever enough to upscale everything fed into it, showing a crisp image, even when the source is dowdy old terrestrial TV.
Check out a video of it here.
I’m still waiting for a cell toaster
Comment by E-ROLE — Feb 25, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
ooo, that’s cool… it’s like a whole different set of flamingos!
Comment by Martin — Feb 25, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
we are taking over the world, one bit of hardware at a time.
ALL PRAISE OUR SONY OVERLORDS!!
hang on… Toshiba…!?
am i the only on slightly amused at the irony of this?
in other news, i got this in my inbox from Gioteck today:-
“We hope to have the PS3 Real Triggers available in UK stores soon and we are working on a newsflash bulletin for all of our customers who would like to obtain additional sets.”
i have a set fitted to my DS3, very comfy indeed.
Comment by mobiletone — Feb 25, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
so… folding @ home on toshiba TV’s?
Comment by glitched — Feb 25, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
Better than a “Cell Paperweight” I guess…
Comment by Terry — Feb 25, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
bit sarky eh tel!
(dunna fret it’ll come)
anyhow..i guess the majority of you, knew about the deal toshiba struk up with sony a couple of days after the official death of HD-DVD? something like $581 billion (dont quote me,and cant be arsed to source it) to buy into CELL production plants in Japan…it now seems toshiba are strongly backing CELL and the ps3…
my the irony…
Comment by sedaripper1973 — Feb 25, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
Why do people insist on hosting quality comparion video on YouTube? The quality is so reduced they both look shite anyway!
Comment by TheShirts — Feb 25, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
It never was Sony’s Cell processor in the first place…
Comment by Maya — Feb 25, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
@6 Maya - YES IT WAS… Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as “STI”. The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over a four-year period beginning March 2001
The first major commercial application of Cell was in Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console
Comment by mobiletone — Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
The moment I read Toshiba I told myself how long until the first uninformed posts about HDDVD and Toshiba sellout to Sony, etc.
Fools.
Cell is not developed by Sony. Cell was made by STI, a joint venture company equally shared by Sony, Toshiba and IBM.
The buying of the Cell production plants was some months ago, last year, much before HDDVD’s demise. Toshiba bought Sony’s Cell factories in a move to expand their semiconductor bussiness, and Sony seeking to center more in the home electronics department. It was a mutually beneficial operation, happily backed by shareholders and analysts.
And the Toshiba Cell equipped HDTV was demoed months before the PS3 launch.
Comment by Omaesan — Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Uhh ‘upscale everyting put into it’??
Every LCD and Plasma on the market does that, otherwise when you watched SD TV it would be a little postage stamp in the middle of the screen.
Maybe this does a decent job (I’d like to see objective tests though) but it’s not exactly a revolution.
Comment by Tony — Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Why don’t they try using it to process info during games on a PS3 which are of high quality, long play time and released on time?
Comment by Ton Capone — Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
Oh.
Here comes Tom Capone with another unrelated, critical and unuseful post.
You and ‘Carl’ are the sauce of this blog!
Comment by Omaesan — Feb 25, 2008 @ 11:49 pm
@Tony - Upscaling means to show the picture at the native resolution of TV. Watching unscaled SD TV on a flat panel is like running a laptop at 480×640, you can tell where the picture has just been fudged bigger to fit the screen. If you have a flat panel, try turning on the upscaling for DVDs and PS2 games in your PS3 you’ll notice a huge difference.
Comment by lxd — Feb 26, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Toshiba’s TV do great HD at the moment, the cell is going to go towards making their SD reproduction alot better. I think any main branded LCD does SD upscaling at the moment, my Philips 9632 certainly does.
The big thing about the new Tosh’s is the picture frame case, the cell adding power to the unit, but the main one is the top end model having LED Backlight. So that means pure blacks!
Also, for a 40″ (thats the same space as a standard 37″), its reported to be $1999 for the top line model, which is a bargain in my mind. I may trade in my ambilight when this comes out.
Comment by Widge — Feb 26, 2008 @ 11:28 am
@mobiletone
Thanks babe, tell me something I don’t know
The point was STI did not devellop the Cell for the PS3 as some comments above might have implied. The Cell is a potent numbercruncher with a nack for image manipulation.
Thats why it’s even as logical to spot in an HD TV as in a video games console.
Comment by Maya — Feb 26, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
@maya- but.. but.. it was used commercially in the PS3 first, therefore claiming the spot in our hearts as the ‘PS3 chip’ well, that’s my story and i’m sticking to it
i’m sure i read something about the cell in a mac the other day too, buggered if i can find that article again though.
Comment by mobiletone — Feb 26, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
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