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Foxtel incar on tft ?

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Guest Turbo1

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Does anyone know if it is possible to receive foxtel incar on a tft screen ? Next car I want to deck with a sony 7" tft display and dvd stacker unit or similar ... The big question is, if I have inputs for normal tv as such, would it be possible to get a humax or foxtel satellite tv box put in the car to receive pay tv ?

Obviously need a sat receiver, so would a satnav box do the trick ? I have heard this has been done in a bmw which has satnav as standard, but i know that a normal foxtel at home needs to be directed and positioned at a certain angle ...

Trick idea watching channel v or mtv on way to work on tft screen, alternative to this is to simply burn dvd's of music videos etc using normal standalone dvd burner recording foxtel which seems a whole lot easier, but just not as cool ...

feedback appreciated ...

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funkymonkey Grand Master

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i think satnav satellites are a lot closer to earth so its easier to pick up on the move... the broadcast ones are a bit higher... they're all in the earth's gravity so i'm sure that if you tuned your satellite dish onto one of em, it'd stay that way.

RUX Explorer

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If you could get foxtel in the car why would you bother getting out of your 'Line at all? :D

A mobile divx/mp3/mame enabled small pc would be a lot more fun and give you a much wider range of cool stuff you could do I reckon. Having a library of music clips on demand would be pretty damn cool.

2rismo Grand Master

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No way dude.

You would have to have your dish constantly adjusting for changes in all axes. Oh, you knew you needed a dish right? The GPS/satnav satellites are all LEO (low earth orbit) thingos, (pls correct me if i'm wrong, sat nurdz), and you don't need to be facing a certain way to receive the signal.

Sat TV satellites are about 38,000km's up. Need to be WAY more accurate.

In short, I would LOVE to see you succeed but i dunno how you'll go unless you use the dish as a wing and only ever drive one way.

Sorry :D

2rismo Grand Master

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A mobile divx/mp3/mame enabled small pc would be a lot more fun and give you a much wider range of cool stuff you could do I reckon.

Step 1: Get an XBOX

Step 2: Get it chipped

Step 3: Get the HDD upsized and updated

Step 4: Play DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, JPEG, MPEG, AVI, DIVX, ETC ETC ETC...

Solved!

RUX Explorer

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Yeah but i'm thinking why not have wireless net access and you could set it up so your pc at home could encode / stream the foxtel signal over the net so you could pick it up in the car. :D

Now that'd be a cool project if you could get it working and had $$$$ - imagine the data download charges hehe

2rismo Grand Master

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I am a semi sat nerd... you would need the dish to be always pointing to the horizon.

:confused:

It would face different ways depending on where you were in the country/world and would be wrecked by buildings etc. Also, the minimum dish size you could use would be about 50cm!

I do like the streaming wireless idea though. But i think if you wanted any sort of decent range you'd have to have a transmitter that would be both illegal as well as dangerous! Would cook your dog while you were out driving around!

I suppose the only real way you could do it is if you intended on doing a lot of cruises or outdoor car-show & shines etc. Then you could stake the dish into the ground! :D

Adrian

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Thanks for the comments guys ... Sounded a bit too good to be true :-( I think the next project I'll do would be a nice 7" in dash tft matched up to a dvd player or stacker .... Already got a dvd-rw unit at home, can record plenty of funky clips, movies etc using it, works a treat - especially since dvd-r discs are now $2 each or so, $3 or so for dvd-rw .... The x-box idea - Yeah, definately a ripper and yes, prob the best solution of all :-)

geordie Proficient

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maybe you should wait for technology to catch up with your imagination/vision. Coz it would be sweet to have it in you car, all you would need to do is work out how to put a shower in the back seat and you would never have to leave the car. Maccas drive through can be your kitchen :P

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