Toshiba Planning to Show Cell-Powered TV Next Month

By Geoff Duncan
September 25, 2009

Toshiba is planning to show its first television with an embedded Cell processor for handling upscaling and DVR tasks...but not PlayStation games.

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has announced it's planning the first public showing of its long-gestating high-definition television with an embedded Cell processor at next month's Ceatec trade show in Japan on October 5. Toshiba has been quietly demonstrating prototypes of televisions with Cell technology since at least 2007, but has not made any concrete moves to bring the units to market. A public showing at Ceatec suggests the company is preparing to enter at least the Japanese market in the short term, although no pricing and availability information has been released.

The Cell processor is the same technology that drives Sony's PlayStation 3 console; however, instead of offering a gaming capability, Toshiba is using the chip's computational power to drive DVR functions and provide ...

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