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Watch 3 shows on one screen with Sharp LCD

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Imagine taking a drive in a van. The driver uses a car navigation system screen, the person in the passenger seat checks out tourist sites and restaurants, and the person in the back seat enjoys a movie on DVD, all on the same LCD screen. That's what electronics giant Sharp has come up with.

Sharp Corporation and Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd have developed a Triple Directional Viewing LCD, an industry first display that controls the viewing angle so that the display can show different images from the left, right, and center simultaneously.

Sharp's history is one of finding ways to improve on LCD performance factors like contrast and viewing angle.

Sharp Triple Directional Viewing LCD takes controlled viewing-angle technology a step further. Using a proprietary parallax barrier on a standard TFT LCD, the screen splits light in three directions -left, right, and center- and displays three separate images on the same screen at the same time.

According to Sharp, its Triple Directional Viewing LCD is also ideal for multipurpose signs in public: it could display three different ads for stores or restaurants, each aimed at people walking in a certain direction.

In its release, sharp didn't mention anything about tri-directional sound.

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