Sharp Corporation and Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. have developed a new LCD, which can simultaneously display different information and image content in right and left views in a single unit by directionally controlling the viewing angle of the LCD. This feature makes it possible to provide information and content tailored to specific users depending on the angle at which they view the screen.
Very cool technology. I can see this being huge for ads and useful applications outside of the home, but not inside. i have obvious and personal preferences where this type of technology would not suit me or my viewing habits.
do THAT many people fight over the remote? what happened to PIP? who uses that?
i'm not pimping it, i've always hated it and never used it.
oh ok phew
yknow what i really dont get
those philips plasmaTVs with "ambient light". wtf is up with that
actually, i watched movies with ambient lighting a couple of years ago for close to 3 months. it's ridiculously easy to do this yourself. it worked fine, but didn't make anything on screen better. i was using a 6500 Kelvin light source. some people swear by it, so i'm not so sure Philip's is being gimmicky about it.
"Have you ever taken photograph's both outside in daylight and inside in incandescent lighting, and then found that in the pictures taken inside everything looked reddish ? If your answer is yes, then you know how adaptive your vision is to the color of white when the film is not.
What happens is your eyes loose their color reference. Again to have the correct reference for evaluating colors we need "daylight". This holds true not only when we evaluate the colors of a dress, but also when we evaluate the colors on a television. Also, watching television in a completely black room is straining on your eyes because the television is only occupying approximately 20% of your field of vision. This cause's the iris to open fully. Thus when a bright image comes onto the screen the iris is forced to close down quickly and sends the optic nerve into shock.
This is where the television surrounding come into play. Both the color reference and luminance level can be solved by mounting a light behind the set. The light supplies the reference that our eye's need. Clearly the choice of the light is not arbitrary, this light should be as close as possible to the D65 color standard. The lamp should be rated at 6500 Degrees Kelvin with as high a C.R.I. rating as possible. (Color Rendering Index refers to how well a light source will "render" an object familiar. The rating is scaled from 0 to 100 with outside "daylight" being 100) The lamp used should have a rating of at least 90 CRI.""Have you ever taken photograph's both outside in daylight and inside in incandescent lighting, and then found that in the pictures taken inside everything looked reddish ? If your answer is yes, then you know how adaptive your vision is to the color of white when the film is not.
What happens is your eyes loose their color reference. Again to have the correct reference for evaluating colors we need "daylight". This holds true not only when we evaluate the colors of a dress, but also when we evaluate the colors on a television. Also, watching television in a completely black room is straining on your eyes because the television is only occupying approximately 20% of your field of vision. This cause's the iris to open fully. Thus when a bright image comes onto the screen the iris is forced to close down quickly and sends the optic nerve into shock.
This is where the television surrounding come into play. Both the color reference and luminance level can be solved by mounting a light behind the set. The light supplies the reference that our eye's need. Clearly the choice of the light is not arbitrary, this light should be as close as possible to the D65 color standard. The lamp should be rated at 6500 Degrees Kelvin with as high a C.R.I. rating as possible. (Color Rendering Index refers to how well a light source will "render" an object familiar. The rating is scaled from 0 to 100 with outside "daylight" being 100) The lamp used should have a rating of at least 90 CRI."
phew
