Guys With Jap TV's !

[Jay95R33]

This is one for people that have imported a Jap car that has a TV in it and are stumped on what to do with it.

There is a cheap alternative to throwing it all out and starting again

My Stagea came with a TV and Sat nav system. I ripped the sat nav out cause there's no way to get it working here But I thought it would be a big shame if I couldn't use the TV.

Well, after a heap of searching around I found a media player that will hook up to the video and audio inputs of the TV so I could watch DVD/MPG/AVI files and also play MP3/OGG music files.

This is it;

http://www.itbox.com.au/catalog/product_in...ed15d58ad58d64c

It's a really nifty little thing. Basically it will play any DVD/MPG/AVI video files, including DivX and Xvid, play MP3 and OGG music files, display JPG files, outputs upto 1920x1020 res HD files !!, has 5.1 DTS output (as well as standard stereo) and doubles as a portable mass storage device.

This little unit suits me down to a T. I have a heap of backup movies and music that I can play in the car now, also instead of having to convert the files to a standard DVD format to play on a standalone DVD player I just need to load it up the files via USB2 and play them by this unit...

I love my new gadget

J

[raz0r$harP.UK]

So it's like a incar computer / media player? I always wanted to put one in my 33 but never got around to it. Looks pretty neat though.

[Jay95R33]

Yepp, portable media player.

The unit cost me $370 but that was WITH a 60 gig laptop hard drive. I think you can get the unit without the hard drive for about $180.

Damn cheap if you have a screen already. The iRivers that have a 20gig drive (but without this res video and DTS 5.1) are around double this price.

J

[pentae]

Damn! no firewire.. still looks like a great idea though.

This isnt just for guys with Jap TVs, but anyone with an existing screen in their car with rca in.

[paulr33]

post up some pics of the unit can you

when i got my 33 with sat nav and tv ripped out sat nav

brought a dvd player for 300 (new) and used that worked great

the unit is a bit dodgy and has some buggy firmware on it

like occasioanlly a movie may die but i suspect shit media dvds than the player

[GTRgeoff]

Looks the goods for the toyo luxo barge. The lexus soarer website also has a link to a guide for fitting the RCA plugs to allow fitment of something like this.

[ylwgtr2]

or you could hook up an xbox.....

[Jay95R33]

Xbox is great cause you get a games console as well, but pretty large and not very portable.

It really depends on what you want to do with it etc..

I'll grab some pics tomorrow and post them up.

But so far it's played everything I've thrown at it, apart from MOV and WMV.

J

[Zahos]

This unit would also be a good option if u wanted to watch TV

[ylwgtr2]

no that wont work...you need this and a tuner box.... http://www.highway.net.au/parts/converters/4245.html

[Zahos]

I thought Japan uses PAL?

[Jay95R33]

Na, Japanese use NTSC We use PAL.

[paulr33]

the dvd player i got for 300 does ntsc and pal