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Sharp's Double-View LCD TV
HaloPhreak writes "Sharp has released that they will soon release products that will "allow viewers sitting to the right and left of a screen to watch different channels." This is a new breakthrough in LCD technology my the industry-leading LCD manufacturer. In the article by Reuters, more than just television use is anticipated for this new technology. According to the article, laptops, ATM's, PDA's, cellphones, and even billboards you see in malls could use this technology."
What about sound?
Two different pornos at the same time.
this is a great day for technology.
I'm just posting to say that I'll soon be posting about this article
I have had many a strained discussion of a TV show that I just watched with my wife...we obviously were watching two different shows on the same set.
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I could have sworn I had seen this before on slashdot, yet not on such a commercial level. If I recall correctly, some student posted about viewing different pictures at different angles, and even had set up a demo. He hadn't managed to perfect two streaming television channels, if I recall correctly. Hmm...can anyone find/remember this?
The actual article.
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I wonder if the two channels could be split so that one eye would see a different picture than the other eye. I guess you would have to have the TV aimed directly at you, but it still would be pretty cool and you wouldn't have to wear some geeky looking glasses/helmet.
From TFA:
Katayama acknowledged that sound would be an issue. He said directional speakers were one possibility in the future but earphones would be the most likely option at present.
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As soon as you put on headphones, you are no longer doing something with other people; you may as well just have a handheld device. The only possible use I can think of for this is a replacement for split-screen in games.
This is a new breakthrough in LCD technology
Yeah, or is it a slightly re-engineered version of their 3D technology
I have one of those sitting here, and I can totally see how this 'new breakthrough' would be possible using the same technique, just different mechanical layout.
FYI: the 3D monitor is not that great, you have to position your head in the _exact_ right position.
I mean, now we have to invent the 2-man cubicle!
Time is comparison of movement to other movement.
A simple solution to that. I was watching the former TechTV a while back (rest in peace :( ) and I remember seeing in "Invent This!" a rich guy who ran a small company who had developed a directional speaker. You could only hear it if it was directly pointed towards you.
Combine this directional TV with these speakers and bam, each person sees AND hears different things.
I can actually see a very practical use for putting a screen like this in car.
During the trip, the driver should only have access to nav displays, directions etc.
At the same time, the passenger can be watching a movie or tv etc.
When you stop the car, you can switch it back to single channel and both enjoy the movie.
This is especially practical since the positions of the people in the car are quite fixed.
A agree about mobile phones however, just give us a larger screen rather than fudging a use where none is required.
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I'm interested to see whether this technology can be tweaked to display slightly different images on narrow angles, which can trick our eyes to believe the flat images are 3-D.
This would be great for video games. Imagine instead of split screen, having dual screen on the same TV. You'd no longer cheat and see the other person picking there plays, and two player Halo would be taken to a new level.
I don't see it being that difficult for the console makers because the power in these things is already rediculous, so why not put dual component outputs one labeled left and the other right. That would also eliminate people's questions of "what about the sound."
At last, a working reason to be up late!
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Now I won't even have to alt-tab from Slashdot when my boss walks by.
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I work over the corridor from these guys, and let me assure you that there are entire sectors of industry who are very interested in this technology. Very interested.
It's not bullshit, and you'll be seeing them in the real world quite soon.
Having seen the demonstrations and the low-down technical details of how they work, I'm pretty impressed by it -- in particular the solution for the problem of how to get touchscreen buttons to have one function for the left-hand person and another for the other.
I'm sorry I can't go into more details, but it's more than my job's worth...
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From http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_stor y.asp?category=1700&slug=Japan%20Double%20Display: "The 'two-way viewing-angle LCD,' announced by the Japanese consumer electronics maker Thursday, will go into mass production this month and will cost roughly twice as much as a standard display."
Why not just buy two seperate displays? That way, if two people wanted to do different things, they could just put the displays in two different places...
Not that I don't think the technology is really cool.
I wonder if this was a failed attempt at engineering a 3D TV.
I wonder if Fox News will only play out of the far right side?
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