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Offline bigpoppa81

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in car tv questions
« on: 09 May 2005, 09:56 »
im thinking about getting one of them in car tv screens for my car, but i aint got a clue about them, ive seen some cheap but they only say they are the screens so does that mean i need something else to play films and music? are there just units out there where a screen comes out of the cd unit and you can play music and dvds if need be?

how much should i be looking to pay? 

Offline tinman

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Re: in car tv questions
« Reply #1 on: 09 May 2005, 10:39 »
There are a couple of ways of doing this.

The first is to use a seperate screen in the sunblinds or rear headrest. The second way is to have a pull out screen in a 1 DIN slot on the dash.

The latter comes in two different flavours. The first flavour is screen only and cost £79+ on Ebay.

The second flavour is the all in one singing and dancing unit. There is a HK unit at around £599 (last time I looked) that had everything in one. However, the major brands will cost upwards of £1200 (eg Panasonic Avic N1).

If you get a screen only device you need something to power it, and so you can pick up an extra 1 DIN unit that contains DVD, radio, tv, mp3 player etc. You could power it from a laptop in the boot if you wanted - however, you need a touch sensitive screen and I've only found 1 of those from the States - specially designed for it. They are about £300 and plug into USB and Serial and work exactly the same way as a mouse. There are some apps that have been developed for Windoze and Linux that will use these touch sensitive screens and provide a full sound system delivered from a PC (search for pycar).

There is another windows front end (cant remember its name) that will interface (nicely-ish) to any app on your PC within a frame which means you can put a GPS application on as well.