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Toshiba’s ultimate TV will make you want to dump your system

January 6th, 2010, 2:16 pm by

toshimg_7219That new HDTV you just bought? Outdated. Get ready to dump it after you hear what Toshiba America is coming out with this year: The CELL TV, which Toshiba announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

It’s still an HDTV but every feature has been turbo charged.

It’s faster (480 Hz compared to existing 60 Hz TVs), brighter (1,000 cd/m2), blacker, more connected and converts 2D video to 3D video (see photos below from the press conference for some details). Gee, what else? It’ll include a 1 TB hard drive, built-in Blu-ray Disc player, Wi-Fi, DLNA (so it can access family photos, music, video and other files stored on personal computers) plus a high-quality video phone system.

The main feature: The CELL chip, which is the same chip that powers the PlayStation 3 and has been finding its way into certain advanced computers. Toshiba, which developed the chip with Sony, always intended to put it in a TV. This year, it will begin selling the CELL TV in the U.S. No specific date or price has been announced. Read the rest of this entry »

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Toshiba’s new laptop has PlayStation 3 chip inside

June 17th, 2008, 10:20 am by

Toshiba’s Qosmio G55**UPDATE: Toshiba’s Qosmio site is now working **

As mentioned here in May, Toshiba officially announced new versions of its high-end Qosmio notebook line today, including one that has the same video chip found in Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console.

The Qosmio G55 has the Cell, which was co-developed by Toshiba, Sony and IBM. Toshiba, however, calls it the Toshiba Quad Core HD processor. Other features of this model: a 500GB hard drive and a 18.4-inch widescreen display.

The special web site is supposed to be HERE but it looks like it hasn’t been updated yet. Check back later. Meanwhile, photo on right is from Toshiba and below is the prototype Qosmio with the Cell that I saw in May. Looks about the same to me.

According to today’s release, the new line, which includes the Qosmio X305 and Qosmio F55, will be available later this summer. But Toshiba doesn’t get into the details of price. The company tells me that today’s news is strictly to announce the new models. Specs and prices will come later.

Back in May when I visited the Toshiba’s headquarters in Irvine, they demonstrated the new Qosmio and said the price was $1,700, which is much less than the original $3,000-plus tags of the original Qosmio’s. Read more about the specs on my last post, “Peek at Toshiba laptop with PlayStation 3’s Cell chip.”

The benefits of this new chip, according to Toshiba, are to speed up the process of converting or transcoding a homemade movie to a watchable movie on DVD.

Explains Toshiba: A 10-minute video can take an hour or more to transcode using a high performance processor. Offloading that work from the CPU to the TOSHIBA Quad Core HD Processor boosts the transcoding speed up to 10 times faster.

The 10-times faster claim is based on a Toshiba notebook with the new chip vs. one without.

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Peek at Toshiba laptop with PlayStation 3′s Cell chip

May 9th, 2008, 7:09 am by

With Toshiba just around the corner in Irvine, I’m lucky to get sneak peeks at what’s next. My last visit got me very excited because of what the company is doing inside its next Qosmio notebook: It’s adding the Cell.

Toshiba’s new Satellite laptops will have the Cell chipGamers may remember the Cell as the chip inside the Sony PlayStation 3. What I didn’t remember was that Toshiba and IBM worked with Sony on the chip. Then last fall, Sony sold its Cell-chip production factory to Toshiba. Should it surprise anyone that the Cell will be in certain Toshiba laptops by summer?

That’s the chip on the right, held by Dave McFarland, Toshiba’s product guy. It’s a quad-core HD cell processor that specializes in multimedia. Beyond the PlayStation 3, it’s also supposed to show up in Toshiba TVs and IBM supercomputers. And now… a Toshiba laptop.

The chip, now called the SpursEngine , won’t replace the Intel chip in the laptop. Rather, it’s a supplement that will handle video or other multimedia processing while Intel’s chip can concentrate on the usual computer duties. In useful language, Dave explained that a high-definition video that took him one hour to process now takes 10 minutes — a definite time saver.

And here’s a photo of a prototype of the new Qosmio:

Toshiba’s new Qosmio will have the Cell chip

Toshiba’s new Qosmio will have the Cell chipIf you’re a gaming enthusiast, you may be wondering, ‘Why is the Qosmio — the multimedia laptop — getting the chip first and not Toshiba’s gaming machines?’ He explained that games must be built to take advantage of the new chip. Playstation 3 games are. Computer games? Not at all. Game companies are currently working on such games but until then, it’s a waste.

“Our long-term goal is to work with companies like Adobe. Like, if you’re using Adobe Premier (video editing software), we could work with them to utilize the Cell engine,” he said.

Toshiba’s Qosmio gets the CellWhile the Cell was the exciting news, the new Qosmio also will have some other great features, including an 18.4-inch screen even though the laptop’s size won’t be bigger than its 17-inch predecessor…

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