$11,115 Toshiba TV Can Time-Shift Owners into Bankruptcy
by John Paczkowski
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM PT
Toshiba has seen the future of television: A 55-inch, liquid-crystal display jacked into a three-terabyte set-top box capable of displaying eight high-definition broadcasts at once.
The unit boasts 14 different tuners compared with the typically high-end set, which has about three. Its speakers are reportedly comparable to those of a high-end stereo system, and with its Cell chip and image-processing technology, it is capable of improving the resolution of a crappy YouTube video to near high-definition quality. Finally, in addition to displaying eight high-def broadcasts at once, the TV can record them–simultaneously. Oh, it can time-shift them if you’d like, too.
What is this TV among TVs, this holy grail of couch potatoans called? the Cell Regza 55X1. And it costs $11,115.
$11,115? For a TV? In this recession? When TV prices are declining?
Damn right. And Toshiba expects to sell about 1,000 of them a month in Japan before bringing them to market in the U.S. and Europe in 2010.
[Image credits: Toshiba and AVWatch]
Comments
Ironic how this high end stuff is still based on PowerPC isn’t it?
I keep hoping these things come back as the basis for desktop and even laptop computers.
Otherwise we have to wait for the Chinese to abandon compatibility with chips Intel made for washing machines back in the 80s.
Posted by Mac Beach at October 5th, 2009 at 2:51 pm