the FULL HD marketing point will be mute comes December 2009 when Toshiba retail its 2610p HDTV. The TV has the power of the graphic processor in PS3 game console and has built in harddisk recorder of 1.1 Terabyte. It can record several HD channel simultanously.


http://www.smarthouse.com.au/TVs_And_Large...ay/LED/C7U6S9M2

World's Smartest 2160p Toshiba Cell TV On Sale Soon
By David Richards | Saturday | 19/09/2009


Toshiba has confirmed that they are close to launching a stunning new TV which will include the 64bit "Cell processor" which is the power processor used in Sony's new PS3 Playstation. It will also include a Blu ray player and a 1TB recorder in one unit and have a resolution three times greater than current 1080p TV's.

First tipped by SmartHouse in January 2009 the new LED powerhouse TV could be on sale in Australia by early 2010. It will go on sale in Japan in December 2009 and be shown at the 2010 CES show Toshiba has confirmed.

Called the "Cell Regza" the TV is so powerful that it is capable recording six HD TV channels at once while up scaling 1080p content to 3840 X 2160p.

We are also told that it will have a 1 Terabyte storage system built into the cell processor's personal video recorder. The Cell Broadband Engine was initially developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba but is now owned by Toshiba with royalties being paid to Sony and IBM.

Masaaki Oosumi, president of Toshiba's Digital Media Network Company said "The new Cell Processor TV bring together Toshiba imaging, storage and network technologies".

He added "It will be Toshiba's flagship model in the true sense. It is the ultimate entertainment machine that brings more excitement than a movie in a theatre. I would like to let users experience the same sensation as they felt by watching a colour TV for the first time."

He did not reveal the exact specifications of the new TV. At the 2009 CES SmartHouse was shown the Cell processor which is capable of delivering images to a screen at 3 times the quality of current 1080p resolution.
Toshiba will announce the specifications of the Cell TV within days, he said. As for the pricing, said that it will be "fairly expensive" Oosumi said.

The heart of the new Sony PS3, Sony has spent the last three year singing the praises of the Cell processor before the cash strapped Company suddenly sold the manufacturing of the processor to Toshiba who are now set to deliver a series of offerings featuring a cell processor.

Idea is good but now which movie got 2610p? If using blu-ray discs, how many discs are require for a normal two to three hours movie?

"PLEASE INSERT DISC 2" maybe

maybe got RedRay Discs in the future that holds 100GB worth of data?
worse come to worse... since it has 1.1 TB HDD, all movies are downloaded (taking a few weeks since our streamyx is so "fast")

Another alternative could be the HSBB....Highly Slow BroadBand

bro g5sim, how many years u have been workign in toshiba?

upscale 1080p movies to 2160p and still deliver 3 times the quality of 1080p?!

either their taste is bad or the TV is good.

do they really need cell broadband?

hmm strange, i thought i was working for microsoft.

the TV using the power of PS3 Cell will up convert video sources to 2160p and pump them to the 2160p display

Watch Astro on this

who knows maybe astro SD will become as good as 1080p blu-rays

Normal DVD already red ray if I am not mistaken.

So successor to blue ray is what? Green ray?

in terms of laser wavelength red is long, blue is short.. green in middle..

maybe next will be T-rays..

already got this kind of scanner for airport to see under your clothes..

Lol... I cant imagine the quality of videos exceed 1080p....

How much better can the quality get?

1080p can already see the actors pubes in BD prawn, 2160p how?

Got additional function like zoom in and zoom out.

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Added on September 25, 2009, 12:08 pmSoon this 2160p will also obsolete since computer display standard already reach WHUXGA (Wide Hex[adecatuple] Ultra Extended Graphics Array) with 7680×4800 (36864k) resolution. Of course this is 16:10 format. TV standard always slower compared to computer display standard.

This post has been edited by low98944: Sep 25 2009, 12:09 PM

the biggest question is can when GENERAL PUBLIC afford this kind of thing?
Even today, not many can afford nor are willing to fork out the $$$ for 1080p.

Well, not to mention the lack of even 720p contents from our local content providers...even DVDs are not 720p & most of us are still watching/buying DVD!

It is juz too much hype about this kind of sh!t...somebody needs to do some reality check

its only as practical as the eyes can notice...

even 1080p for many application is barely distinguishable from 720p...
resolution is not the issue now i think...its the frame rates that could do with improving...

DVD is still acceptable. I know people who still buys VCD!!!!!!!

There's no limit to technology I suppose but there is a limit to how organic matters like your eyes perform. Realistically, can your eyes distinguish anything higher than the current 1080p?

Great update on the news though