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Innovative SPLITVIEW technologyStuttgart - In future Mercedes-Benz is equipping its luxury class models as the first premium brand with a display screen that allows the driver and front passenger to view two different programmes at the same time.
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While the driver is checking the navigation
instructions, the front passenger can sit back and watch a film on the very
same display. This is made possible by new SPLITVIEW technology which the
Stuttgart premium brand is introducing in the S-Class for the first time.
Mercedes-Benz has integrated the new SPLITVIEW technology developed by
Mercedes-Benz and Bosch into the innovative control and display system COMAND,
which is centrally located in the dashboard console. Its generously dimensioned,
8-inch (approx. 20 mm) monitor shows a backlighted active matrix colour display
(TFT-LCD). This shows two different images simultaneously by placing pixels
adjacent to each other. A filter masking the display divides this mixed image
in such a way that depending on the seating position, only the pixels making
up one or the other image can be seen. As a result, the driver and front
passenger can view different programmes on the same screen at the same time.
The driver still has access to all the information from the control and display
system COMAND on the display, while the front passenger uses the remote control
to choose his own entertainment programme with DVDs, TV channels or music
videos. To avoid distracting the driver with his entertainment programme,
he also has the option of enjoying the programme via headphones. As before,
the driver is able to view all the information provided by the COMAND system
on the display. Mercedes-Benz is introducing the new SPLITVIEW technology
in the S-Class for the first time in summer 2009.