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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Toshiba Crams Supercomputer Guts Into 3-D, Web TV | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Toshiba Crams Supercomputer Guts Into 3-D, Web TV | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "Powered by LED (KIRA2) backlighting, the 55- or 65-inch Cell TV features multiple eight-core 3.2-GHz processors. It’s 10 times faster than standard desktop computers and will have 143 times the processing power of today’s televisions.

The Cell TV includes a converter to make everything that’s normally 2-D on your screen — football games, videogames, Blu-ray movies and so on — pop out in 3-D when viewed through active shutter glasses.

It also features a video camera, microphone and software for video conferencing over an internet connection. Also, the Cell TV will have a software menu called Net TV Channels to download streaming content from Netflix, Vudu and other web-based video services. On top of that, the TV uses a technology called Net Super Resolution+ to reduce compression artifacts seen in web video content."