TOSHIBA Showcases its New 3D CELL REGZA LCD TVs Offering Real Time 2D3D Conversion Technology

Toshiba has showcased it new additions in its CELL REGZA LCD TV Series integrating the Cell Broadband Engine developed jointly by IBM, SONY and Toshiba, offering a superior multimedia processing and advance CELL platform. The new addition includes CELL REGZA 55X2 (55-inch model), CELL REGZA SLIM 55E2 (55-inch model) and CELL REGZA SLIM 46XE2 (46-inch model). All models come with 3D capabilities, offering 3D “Super Resolution Technology” capable of upgrading 3D content in to superior near high definition content, this is done by taking the 3D delivered content separately to left and right eye through “side-by-side” system, a system that divides the frame horizontally for left and right side and send separate data to each eye simultaneously, causing to halves the resolution of the image received by each eye.
Furthermore, all three models comes with 2D3D real time conversion technology allowing the viewers to enjoy 2D contents as a high quality 3D. But here is the catch; the contents that have been converted from 2D to 3D cannot be recorded as 3D content. The new TVs comes with storage capacity of 3-trabyte (TB) of hard disk drive, where 2TB is dedicated to the CELL REGZA’s “time-shift machine 2” capable of recording simultaneously up to 8 channels of digital terrestrial broadcasting, but watch out, when the hard disk dedicated for this function gets full, the system will delete oldest program on the hard disk. The new TVs among multitude of features, offers high Luminance 1,000 cd/m2 at its peak, which is by the way is industry’s highest level of brightness, as well as delivering contrast ratio of 9,000,000:1 and AutoView function for 3D, offering optimum picture quality through automatic fine-tuning of backlighting and white balance in response to the changes in color contrast and brightness. The 3D glasses come with the TVs, utilizes Toshiba’s crosstalk technology, capable of minimizing crosstalk, image blurring by controlling the On-Off switching of the backlight and the open-close of the shutter in the 3D glasses. The new TVs comes with CELL REGZA Block Noise Clear, which is a HD distortion removal technology, where as the name suggests is capable of removing distortion of HD images based on analysis of 8 x 8 blocks of pixels. This is done by estimating the strength of block distortion, the maximum luminance of the surroundings as well as maximum image inclination, resulting in reproduced original images, all in real time. The new CELL REGZA TVs comes with Quattro High Speed Clear function, capable of creating a complementary frame in response to the fast movement, so for the original sources that have a frame rate of 24Hz, the Quattro Motion Clear produces and inserts nine complementary frames. All three models will hit the market within October of this year. There no suggested retail price for any of these TVs as of yet.

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