{"id":19,"date":"2005-01-13T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-09-13T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:22:08","slug":"sony-announces-glorified-post-processing-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/sony-announces-glorified-post-processing-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Announces Glorified Post-Processing Chip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Internet Movie Database Studio Briefing, Sony is planning to unveil a chip that will perform image postprocessing on a normal television signal in order to make it look like a HDTV signal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/news\/sb\/2005-01-13#tv8\">Sony Brings HDTV-Like Quality to Ordinary TV &#8212; At a Price<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n Sony has unveiled a new settop processor called the Qualia 001 Creation Box&#8230;is a microchip that sharpens the edges of objects within an image&#8230;priced at $5,080.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time I have heard about such a product. I saw an ad in a home A\/V magazine a few months ago for a set top box that could perform 6 types of post-processing on the input video signal. I think the price tag was in the neighborhood of $3,500. Just for some well-known mathematical filters probably implemented in a standard Texas Instruments DSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Studio Briefing: Sony putting out a $5K postprocessing chip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-presswatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}