News - Toshiba announces Regza ZF LCD series, with built-in upscaler

[HEXUS]

As expected, Toshiba has today announced the world's first LCD TV to feature a built-in cell-based 1080p upscaler.

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[Mr Pants]

So what do other 1080p tvs do?

Display a picture with black borders, it cant be the 1st 1080p tv scaler if other 1080p tvs are scaling pictures.

It is stretching the truth a lot calling it the first 1080p scaler, although it does seem like they have made a very good one. I wonder how it compares to the Panasonic and Pioneer plasma ones.

[Biscuit]

it doesn't just stretch the picture it predicts what the image would look like by compensating motion and sharpening the colours etc.

Its a very intelligent solution and not just a load of technology being thrown at a product for no reason, i feel this would be a great idea for UK buyers at the moment as the quality of freeview television is abismal as it is without it being streched to 1080 lines.

[Pleiades]

Can we have more details about the Cell processor used? Wonder how much it adds to the overall cost...