Toshiba unveils world’s first LCD TV with CELL Platform
Whether it’s Sharp’s UV2A photo alignment technology or Toshiba’s new Cell Platform, it is all clear that manufacturers of TVs are responding to consumer demands by putting more emphasis on picture quality of TVs rather than its thinness. Although the smaller and thinner TV platform can play a major role in future development of digital Multimedia technology through advancement of manufacturing processes such as role-to-role processing as well as introduction of other forms of screens and display technologies such as OLED and so on, but this may overshot the existing consumer by a mile if the only thing they are concerned about is superior picture quality and power efficiency. Toshiba’s announcement where company refer to it as the future of home entertainment which I think is a bit of over statement is unveiling their latest REGZA LCD TVs based on company’s pride and joy CELL Platform which is really a combination of high speed parallel processing of the Cell Broadband Engine and Toshiba’s advanced image-processing algorithms, together resulting in an arithmetic processing capability which is approximately 143 times than company’s current top of the line REGZA TV promising consumer with unrivaled image enhancement capabilities. The new CELL platform based REGZA offers the consumer a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1, plus a self-congruency which is a dedicated process ensuring an improved image quality at the edge of the picture. Furthermore, the new TVs’ backlight control system divides the display into 512 distinct areas where each with individually controlled lighting plus offering the industry high of 1250cd/m2, 2.5 times the level of typical TVs. The other major feature on the new CELL REGZA is their storage capacity with accompanying 3-terabyte of hard disk drive. Two terabyte of this is dedicated to TV’s time-shifting machine capable of simultaneous recording of up to approximately 26 hours of programming for up to eight channels of digital terrestrial broadcasts. Toshiba also delivers a roaming navigation allowing viewers to find and display information on recorded, current and future programs by simply inserting and identifier such as title, person’s name, genre or related keywords.
The new CELL REGZA network capabilities comes with a browser supporting full HD, based on the Opera browser providing full support viewing for YouTube contents at near HD level quality. In addition, CELL REGZA supports broadband service, DLNA as well as Display of JPEG digital photographs. The new CELL REGZA will be available only in Japan by beginning of December of 2009. The 55-inch Full HD TV does not have suggested retail price as of yet.
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