This surprised me. Samsung said at the International CES confab today that its new OLED TV sets make it possible for two people to watch different shows on the same screen at the same time. The company pulls off that trick when viewers wear special glasses, with earbuds, that isolate the program that the viewer wants. It seems the OLED models can handle all of those moving images because the screens refresh 1,000 times faster than conventional HDTV screens. The company says it will show that off in addition to a voice command feature it calls S-Recommendation: Users can use natural language to ask for different programming characteristics, for example an actor they like, and the TV set will offer suggestions based on what’s available on conventional TV, online, and on the DVR. Recommendations will adapt to a user’s tastes over time. “It’s the most powerful personalized TV experience ever created,” says Samsung Electronics America President Tim Baxter, who adds that it will “change the way you discover content.” The company plans to show off 85-inch and 110-inch ultra-HD sets along with an oven that can simultaneously cook two meals at different temperatures, a new collection of touch-screen computers, and a version of the Galaxy Note for Verizon with 4G and Android’s Jelly Bean operating system.

Wow, this tv seems like it is too powerful. How could this not mess up your mind?
Combine the oven and the televisions so you can watch two different television shows WHILE you cook two different meals.
That will literally save millions of marriages.
This sounds like an excellent idea. Hopefully they’ll solve their security problems so people will no longer be able to dial in through the Internet to listen through the microphone and take pictures through the built-in camera — that’s why we’ve avoided the Samsung Internet-enabled TVs so far…
Wouldn’t it be easier if one of you goes into the den?
This is the dumbest feature I’ve ever seen. So two people can sit together, watch two different programs (presumably through headphones), laugh at different times, cry at different times, yell at the screen at different times, make comments on different programs…I’m sorry, what’s the point of this?
The dumbest idea ever…are they joking? This is why Samsung will never be a tech leader, but more a fine copy machine. It’s definitely from the “Well we have to do something!” File. And the executives pretend its a great idea. So sad….
I’m waiting for a shared toilet.
Obviously you haven’t heard of the ‘Two Holer”
It’s been around for decades.
Samsung is about to be named the world’s largest electronics company.
… that keeps getting busted for trade violations, IP infringement, corruption, etc. Samsung makes a lot of things for cheap but it copy-cats other companies. What is Samsung’s unique product that it developed before anyone else and that it’s known for — i.e. when you think Samsung, you think of _____? Nothing. All its phones look like Apple’s iPhones.
One step closer to outlawing fluid transfers.
Yeah seriously, they’ll never be a tech giant. Moron.
I bet you could rejigger the glasses to get every other frame of a show on one pair of glasses–alternating eyes. That way we could watch TWO movies–AT ONCE!
This is hardly a new concept and Samsung isn’t the only one working on it. Sony was talking about it last year as well. Only they added the concept of two to four people playing video games and watching TV all at the same time. 2 people could watch two different 3D shows at once, or 4 people could play 4 player split screen games with each player having their own “full (2D) screen”.
This is old technology. I am not sure why this is news now. Sony has had a TV that can do this on the market for almost a year now. It’s a 3D TV that can also split the inputs and then shows one input to one “eye” and the other input to the other “eye” – then, the glasses are set to “see” only one eye, rather that oscillating between the two.
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The dual tv could be great for sports bars. Or my living room.
The dual oven would rock on holidays.
Otherwise…not necessary. And I don’t want to talk to my tv. I still don’t want to talk to Siri.
Another blow to the family / community experience in entertainment.
I feel so left out. I don’t watch much tv.
Awesome
Reminds me of the end of an old comics story, “The Last Television Broadcast on Earth” from Mystery in Space #28 in 1955 (reprinted a number of times since).
The end user for this product would mainly be bars and restaurants (mostly of the sports variety) who would not have to install as many television sets around their establishments.
That is awesome, technicaly speaking. In my house, tough, ist quite the opposite: Three peopple in three different rooms with three TVs on THE SAME PROGRAM. (That’s dumb). and if they need to talk to each other, they Text instead. It’s the end of the world.
No, Apple steals Samsung’s stuff. Yes Samsung has problems but Apple is much much worse.