PS2 graphics chips to be built into TVs

Cory Doctorow 11:38 pm Tue Aug 10, 2004

Sony has announced plans to use PlayStation 2 chips to speed up the graphics processing in new flat-panel TVs:

The new TVs will be equipped with chips used in the company's PlayStation 2 home-use game consoles and PSX DVD recorder/game consoles. Sony fabricates these chips at a group plant in Nagasaki Prefecture.

The chips' ability to handle detailed computer graphics will improve the TV's image-processing capacity, leading to faster on-screen control for selecting the type of TV broadcasts or viewing image data stored on digital or video cameras, for example.

Sony says the chips, which are already widely used in its game consoles, will enable it to boost the functions of its TVs at little cost.

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(via Gizmodo)

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