TV tuner for the car

[ken]

Anyone know of a TV tuner / DVD player that is small and I can connect to my
Autovision in my car?


Thanks....

 

[Dennis McMillan]

YES!
I have one(grin)
Company called BRAVO ....SD-20T
FRY's here sell em! $129.99 without the monitor which I had! Replacment for
one That got drowned when I ran my car into the water(missed the turn)slick
wet road.
VERY good,I give them very high marks for this one,I had a Blapunk one at
$189.00 and had problem with DVD,s that had even a scratch or two.Brand new
DVD,s worked fine,try putting a DVD from Blockbuster in it...would NOT even
load! The punk had a single power cable and a stick on extendable ANT..Thats
it! the bravo had a Lot of goodies with it apart from the remote,It has on
the back. S-VHS socket/SPDIF coax(rca) Digital. THREE different power
cables,permant one,Cig lighter one and an adaptor for a 12 volt Wall wart so
you can use it inside.an extention IR unit with 19' of cable,apart from the
built in one,my video screen has one built in and it worked,the punk did
not!
I put it in the pocket between the seats,it even has a slide in frame as in
Radio!with a Bezel,so it is ok to put it in the dash if you have a place for
it,If I had my old Mercery sable it would have fit under the radio without a
problem! There is one with the LCD also around $299 10" roof mounted...mine
works well, very pleased,except for not connecting the standby line to the
IGN switch and turning it on without noticing it and coming back to a DEAD
battery next morning!(grin)my fault,very hard to get at the wiring!
And it has front panel Composite/Stereo RCA connectors for the Sony PS2
whatever...so the kids can play games on,Or you can drive everyone crazy
replaying The Video you just made on vacation(ducking)

Cheers Dennis
"ken" <ken_07734@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Anyone know of a TV tuner / DVD player that is small and I can connect to
my Autovision in my car?


Thanks....

 

[JoeSixPack]

"ken" <ken_07734@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Anyone know of a TV tuner / DVD player that is small and I can connect to
my Autovision in my car?

I don't know how stupid an idea this is, but an LCD on the dash could act
like a heads-up display, if you could get the light levels right, and flip
the image the right way.

 

[Jasen Betts]

In article <sGNJe.213333$on1.129608@clgrps13>, JoeSixPack wrote:

"ken" <ken_07734@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Anyone know of a TV tuner / DVD player that is small and I can connect to
my Autovision in my car?


I don't know how stupid an idea this is, but an LCD on the dash could act
like a heads-up display, if you could get the light levels right, and flip
the image the right way.

the only problem is focus, and convergeance... real heads-up displays use
optics so the display seems to be at infinite (or some long-ish) distance
from the observer that way focusing on the display doesn't make you corss
eyed and see double of everything outside the windscreen, and also doesn't
throw the outside world out of focus. in military HUDs thes issues are
dealt with

AFAIK back-lit segmented LCD displays have been used in automotive heads-up
displays, but without fancy optics the display image hovers just outside the
windscren, easier to view that looking inside the car, but not as good as
the real thing.

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Bye.
Jasen