It also contains three terabytes of storage, which will allow viewers to scroll back through the last 26 hours of high-definition video on eight different channels.

The set-top box will run on the 'Cell' processor, a chip with super-computer muscle to churn out intense, high-definition graphics found in today's PlayStation 3 video games.

Toshiba Corp. 's (6502.to) new' Cell Regza 'is a 55-inch television that works in tandem with a powerful set-top box and will display up to eight high-definition broadcasts at once.