Toshiba reveals Cell TV specs Toshiba has whet the appetites of couch potatoes everywhere by releasing the final specifications of its most advanced HD TV yet. Toshiba_Cell_Regza_55X1 Toshiba's Cell Regxa 55X1: advanced The 55in Cell Regza 55X1 – which essentially incorporates the same CPU found inside Sony’s PlayStation 3 – provides “state-of-the-art …
of TVs then will also mean we will have a future of having to buy bigger houses with wider doorways (Yeah I know, don't even point out the obvious OK) to get a monster TV like that in our living rooms.
I swear my local flea pit cinema has a smaller screen than this TV, you know that cinema, the one with the flashing 12 o'clock under the screen.
Its one thing that annoys me about PVRs. Record something in one room and you have to watch it in that room. So if the other half wants to watch Eastenders, I cant watch the recording of Mock the Week in the bedroom TV as I recorded it on the livingroom one. I'd have to set it to record on all the TVs I use and remember to delete from the ones I didn't use to watch it.
Any good streaming TVs out there?
I still watch a CRT tv which plays my old 'Bottom' videos on VHS just fine.
The VCR just works as does the TV. If it dies or malfunctions and it is something trivial I can usually fix it, else there is someone else I know that can, usually not for much.
Sometimes... simple is enough.
Of course, my life is full of anachronisms and contradictions so YMMV.
But I still prefer to do my upscaling using that fancy thing called Media Centre. Also I can put more HDDs inside if I wish, and a Bittorent client. Sorry, I shouldn't mention that part...
There is that fancy stuff called Firefox preinstalled that allows me to browse 'Net on 50" with wireless keyboard... So slightly more enjoyable experience all way round.
Can't the just make a nice TV with integrated, low power PC, running Linux (so we don't need to pay €100 extra for pleasure of having viruses on TV)? Is it so hard?
That spec is more relevant to black level than anything else. If it says 5 milion to one, it might actually DELIVER fifty thousand to one - which, if you're watching in a dark room, might actually deliver perceived black instead of darkish gray, as happens now. You have to take the stated contrast specs with a grain of salt - but in this case, the multi-zone LED backlight probably does substantially improve things, particularly if they kill the backlight entirely during full-fade-to-black.
i would not be too surprised to discover linux as the engine inside their TV. I have a couple Toshiba HD-DVD players which are, in fact, PC's running Linux and BUSYBOX.
The HD-DVD did a fantastic job of upscaling regular DVD's., and i would also expect Toshiba to have very good handle on image processing.
As far as boot-up time, even my dang light bulbs (tose curly ones) have to boot up these days.
"""Its one thing that annoys me about PVRs. Record something in one room and you have to watch it in that room."""
That's why I let some nice fellows on the Internet do the recording part of my PVR - once the content hits my fileserver I can watch it pretty much anywhere I want. With the right hardware (Popcorn Hour or similar,) you get the full HD everything with no moving/noisy components, assuming you have enough rooms to keep a fileserver or NAS box in one that you don't need to use for TV watching.
Plus that's pretty much the only way I can watch Top Gear on this side of the pond.
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