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Its all to do with the relative orientation of the polarizers (on the LCD with respect to your sunglasses), if the polarization of your glasses was not orthogonal to polarizarion on the LCD then you would not need to rotte your head 90deg - you could always just rotate the LCD 90deg and issue solved

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Its all to do with the relative orientation of the polarizers (on the LCD with respect to your sunglasses), if the polarization of your glasses was not orthogonal to polarizarion on the LCD then you would not need to rotte your head 90deg - you could always just rotate the LCD 90deg and issue solved [/quote]

Yeah, good thought, but not so easy if the LCD is inserted into the dashboard. Perahps I could rotate the car 90 degrees and drive on two wheels whilst maintaining my normal oriatenation to the road.

Jim

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I've been in engineering meetings were wackier ideas have been proposed to solve issues. You should have patented your ideas before making it public

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I've been in engineering meetings were wackier ideas have been proposed to solve issues. You should have patented your ideas before making it public [/quote]


Wacky! Well, I don't think anyone would seriously take me up on a patent. In Australia, I would probably be able to do a left hand turn OK, but a right hand turn would be hazardous. I guess I would get a good view of the under dash area though. LOL.

Jim

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Jim

"You have Control".

I'm a little confused on this. I don't doubt that some car and aircraft displays with the new black displays, probably backlit LCD panels, have polarising filters of some kind to improve legibility but that is the bit that's confusing me.

My understanding of a polarising lens, my only experience is with photography and sunglasses, is that the polarising effect works on the light passing through the medium on the lens and filters the light as it passes through the lens. What happens to the light energy that is "filtered" I don't know. It seems it must be either absorbed or reflected.

The problem is that theory doesn't work with reflection, only transmission. So if a polarising lens filters light as it passes through the lens, how would that work to filter reflected light?

Is it not the case that some electronic displays become invisible when viewed through polaroid gasses because the display emits polarised light, not because of any kind of polarising AR coating?

I seem to remember that polaroid sunglasses make pretty good mirrors!

Thanks.

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