> I'm referring to the Toshiba REGZA series of TV sets incorporating full Cell B.E. chips

> Really?

Yes, I'm really referring to them and they really incorporate full Cell B.E. chips and they really came to market.

> They actually offer to let me buy a Spurs engine development board.

For developing "SPE stand alone apps"? I'm not sure it can even exist "stand alone" as the SPEs require a general purpose core or CPU for control and distribution purposes, like the PPE in the Cell or the x86 CPU in Toshiba's Qosmio series of laptops.

> That idea went no where (Spurs).

At least there were actual products using the SpursEngine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpursEngine#Commercialization

We were talking about some of them there:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7383&forum=11&start=3
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7383&forum=11&start=17

> at the price range the Regia lines serves, there won't be many of these sold.
> They are not a main line consumer item.

This may be. The point I was attempting to make is that the Cell has not only been used in the PS3 and in supercomputers (like was claimed in this thread) but in other devices as well.
Btw, in 2011 Toshiba has switched the REGZA line from Cell to a hexa-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip called Cevo.