The Regza Z8X series will be released in late June 2013

May 28, 2013 11:36 GMT  ·  By

It looks like it's really fashionable these days to name things starting with Z8. Intel is preparing Haswell chips compatible with Z87 chipsets, motherboard makers are bringing platforms based on the Z87 core-logic, and Toshiba is readying the release of the Regza Z8X TV.

Toshiba's television set is what we are going to invest words and time into right now. Or rather, the television series. Because the Japanese company has put together more than one.

Speaking of Japan, it is only there that sales will begin next month, June 2013. We suppose it is quite likely that Toshiba will extend availability to other regions eventually, but we don't know when.

In any case, the Regza Z8X series of TVs is composed of models with support for the 3840 x 2160 pixels resolution.

4K for short, said resolution is the reason why TVs bearing it are called UHD TVs – Ultra High-Definition TVs.

The smallest will have a diagonal of 58 inches, while the largest will be one of those 84-inch monsters.

Not exactly in the same league as the 110-inch UHD TVs we saw in the past, but then again those are really exclusive and unnecessarily large. It's hard enough to drag an 84-incher through the door and hallways of a house.

Toshiba's Regza Z8X line of UHD TVs precedes the launch of the NHK “hybridcast” broadcast project planned for later this year and which will combine normal broadcasts with web-based data.

Anyway, the Z8X utilize Toshiba's new Regza Engine CEVO 4K, which can upscale standard- and high-definition content to 4K.

There will be time-shifting support too, which saves up to 80 hours of content on a Toshiba THD-450T1 USB hard-drive (4.5 TB capacity).

Other specs include 40W on-board speakers (four 10W), an SD/SDXC memory card slot, four HDMI ports, Ethernet, and DLNA streaming.