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Nick: One day ahead of the official opening of Ceatec, Toshiba showed its first television based on the powerful cell multimedia processor, the same chip used in the Play Station 3. The 55-inch Cell Regza boasts a number of advanced features.
Shigenori: We, Cell Regza can record 8 channels simultaneously. So we call the function Time Shift Machine nearly time machine, okay?
Nick: While it can record 8 channels simultaneously, it can display them all at once too and allow for users to switch between them quickly. The simultaneous recording function uses two thirds of the space on an internal 3 terabyte hard disk drive to provide the last 26 hours of television on demand from 8 channels. Users can also schedule programs that they would like to be recorded. The TV will go on sale in Japan in December and will cost around 1 million yen, that’s more than 11,000 US Dollars. It will first arrive in the US sometime in 2010 with European release date to happen some time after that but no further details on international availability were announced. The cell chip was developed by Toshiba, IBM, and Sony. And each chip contains a single power PC core and a co-processors. Toshiba has other ideas for the cell processor as well.
Shigenori: We have many ideas especially the 3D is one feature we are thinking and 4K2K is another feature and especially them, regarding the 3D, cell has high performance. So we can make 2D picture to 3D using a cell performance.
Nick: Toshiba displayed both 3D and 4K2K technology at their booth. The 4K2K screen has about 4 times as many pixels as current high def TVs which naturally means more clarity. And while it may be difficult to see here when viewed up close, the 4K2K screen is crisper than regular high def. With reporting by Martyn Williams, I’m Nick Barber for the IDG News Service at Ceatec 2009 in Shiba, Japan.
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