You know a new television is starting out on the right foot when its manufacturer shows a picture of its mainboard on its product page. The Toshiba Meta Brain is an 37-inch LCD television that bridges the space between dumb display device and home media PC, with dual Ethernet, FireWire, and USB ports that allow you to connect to your home network to stream video from PCs and Network Attached Storage devices, or record video back to the PC or NAS hard drives, TiVo-like. You can write video out to SD cards via its integrated slot to watch them on video-enabled cell phones. And since the Meta Brain is connected to the internet through your PC, not only can you browse the web via a browser, but you can send emails to the television when you’re away from home to schedule recordings.
It’s definitely got all the features to be an amazing product (128MB of RAM in a television; that makes me happy) but of course it will have to play well with the whole network before we can count it as anything more than a good idea. No idea if Toshiba has any plans to bring out a similar product to the West.
Product Page [Toshiba via SorobanGeeks]
