Toshiba Using Cell Processing In Upcoming HDTV Release

Given Toshiba's failure putting up HD DVD against Sony's Blu-ray, it's an interesting turn of events to hear that Toshiba will be using Cell processing in an upcoming TV release. The Cell processor is the powerful CPU used in the PS3, in my opinion the best Blu-ray player on the market right now, co-developed by Toshiba, Sony, and IBM back in 2005. Not to many details have been released yet, but Toshiba says the Cell CPU will enable high-quality upscaling of standard-def content, playing and recording multiple TV programs at once, and HD decoding. We'll be waiting for awhile to see what Toshiba's Cell TV can do however, as it's not expected to ship until late 2009.

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