14 DAY TRIAL // Not that much time has passed since the Google TV platform made it out of the labs and into the streets, and today it's time to see this technology from a different perspective all together as we come to witness the teardown of Sony's NSX-24GT1 HDTV, one of the very first devices to support this new technology.
Packed with a NSX-24GT1 and a handful of engineers, the guys from Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad are the ones responsible for tearing this beautiful gadget apart, its insides revealing three different circuit boards as well as what one the engineers have described as quite a “messy” job.
From the three installed circuit boards, the team concluded that two of them constituted what can be best described as a “main board” while the third was actually the power supply board.
One of the two main boards came with an CAN tuner and a heatsink while the other only featured a heatsink, that most probably hides an Intel Atom CE4100 SoC, a chip built especially for TV duty, employed by many other media players out there such as the Boxee Box.
According to the Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad the NSX-24GT1 internals look a lot like a regular 22 inch Sony TV that can be bought from Japan, Sony apparently just adding a so called “Android board” to the mix in order to create their Goolge TV offering.
Taking a closer look inside the Sony NSX-24GT1 also reveals a debug port, a pretty commonplace occurrence for Sony TVs.
Unfortunately this is where the Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad has stopped for now, since some more work is required in order to remove the heatsink that covers what should presumably be an Atom CE4100 processor, so we'll have to wait for part two if we want to see if this is the case or not (although I am prepared to bet there is a CE4100 in there).
