CID Display external input?

[zirk]

Any body know wether the colour CID input is Video or RGB?

Im thinking alone the lines of a switched reversing camera / DVD output (just thinking).

[VXL V6]

RGB, but a little bit more involved than just plugging in.....

This may be of interest...

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hardwarekiller03/dvbtG.htm

[Albatross]

RGB, but a little bit more involved than just plugging in.....

This may be of interest...

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hardwarekiller03/dvbtG.htm

Fascinating  :-/, I don't understand a word of it, but there are a couple of pictures which make me think it may be possible to watch TV on your CID!

...or am I just beeing a bit too hopeful?

Does anyone know more?

[TheBoy]

RGB, but a little bit more involved than just plugging in.....

This may be of interest...

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hardwarekiller03/dvbtG.htm

Fascinating  :-/, I don't understand a word of it, but there are a couple of pictures which make me think it may be possible to watch TV on your CID!

...or am I just beeing a bit too hopeful?

Does anyone know more?

Whilst technically possible, probably not worth the effort.  and the is legal requirement to blank tv screen viewable by driver when moving.

[VXL V6]

Well I'm looking for someone who can make up the PCB (The layouts are on there, just need to be printed out), then i'd love to have a go.... Anyone got a spare CID so I don't trash mine??? LOL I thought not!

[VXL V6]

Whilst technically possible, probably not worth the effort.  and the is legal requirement to blank tv screen viewable by driver when moving.

Yeh, supposed to wire a link into the handbrake switch so that it is disabled automatically.
Reception would be the main issue, unless you have a decent aerial!  

Would be good to watch DVD's through the inbuilt screen while the current SWMBO is shopping....  

[Albatross]

RGB, but a little bit more involved than just plugging in.....

This may be of interest...

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hardwarekiller03/dvbtG.htm

Fascinating  :-/, I don't understand a word of it, but there are a couple of pictures which make me think it may be possible to watch TV on your CID!

...or am I just beeing a bit too hopeful?

Does anyone know more?

Whilst technically possible, probably not worth the effort.  and the is legal requirement to blank tv screen viewable by driver when moving.

Point well made and very much appreciated, my friend has a SATNAV/TV screen on his Rover 75 and that won't work unless in neutral with the handbrake on. It would be nice to see if it were possible though for those times spent waiting.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Well I'm looking for someone who can make up the PCB (The layouts are on there, just need to be printed out), then i'd love to have a go.... Anyone got a spare CID so I don't trash mine??? LOL I thought not!

That PCB looks to have been created on a milling machine......

....ow, did I mention we have a PCB milling machine at work  

[VXL V6]

Well I'm looking for someone who can make up the PCB (The layouts are on there, just need to be printed out), then i'd love to have a go.... Anyone got a spare CID so I don't trash mine??? LOL I thought not!

That PCB looks to have been created on a milling machine......

....ow, did I mention we have a PCB milling machine at work  

Mark, How much work would be involved to make up the board?

[Albatross]

Well I'm looking for someone who can make up the PCB (The layouts are on there, just need to be printed out), then i'd love to have a go.... Anyone got a spare CID so I don't trash mine??? LOL I thought not!

That PCB looks to have been created on a milling machine......

....ow, did I mention we have a PCB milling machine at work  

If this ever comes of anything please consider me a potential customer. I'd like to rig it up with screens in the headrests and they would need to work whilst moving and the CID would need to work on SATNAV whilst that was happening. Only when I wanted to manually "flick a switch" would I want to feed the DVD output to the CID.

I don't want much eh?



(Moon on a stick, in case you were wondering)

[tunnie]

RGB, but a little bit more involved than just plugging in.....

This may be of interest...

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hardwarekiller03/dvbtG.htm

Fascinating  :-/, I don't understand a word of it, but there are a couple of pictures which make me think it may be possible to watch TV on your CID!

...or am I just beeing a bit too hopeful?

Does anyone know more?

Whilst technically possible, probably not worth the effort.  and the is legal requirement to blank tv screen viewable by driver when moving.

Point well made and very much appreciated, my friend has a SATNAV/TV screen on his Rover 75 and that won't work unless in neutral with the handbrake on. It would be nice to see if it were possible though for those times spent waiting.

Whist consulting the manual to the SatNav (factroy fit) in my 1998 Elite, it says "for safey reasons the SatNav can not be operated above 75mph!!!  

So i am fine to adjust it to at 74, but not 75mph!  

[Albatross]

RGB, but a little bit more involved than just plugging in.....

This may be of interest...

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hardwarekiller03/dvbtG.htm

Fascinating  :-/, I don't understand a word of it, but there are a couple of pictures which make me think it may be possible to watch TV on your CID!

...or am I just beeing a bit too hopeful?

Does anyone know more?

Whilst technically possible, probably not worth the effort.  and the is legal requirement to blank tv screen viewable by driver when moving.

Point well made and very much appreciated, my friend has a SATNAV/TV screen on his Rover 75 and that won't work unless in neutral with the handbrake on. It would be nice to see if it were possible though for those times spent waiting.

Whist consulting the manual to the SatNav (factroy fit) in my 1998 Elite, it says "for safey reasons the SatNav can not be operated above 75mph!!!  

So i am fine to adjust it to at 74, but not 75mph!  

Technically speaking, for safety reasons, you shouldn't drive over 70  

[VXL V6]

Well I'm looking for someone who can make up the PCB (The layouts are on there, just need to be printed out), then i'd love to have a go.... Anyone got a spare CID so I don't trash mine??? LOL I thought not!

That PCB looks to have been created on a milling machine......

....ow, did I mention we have a PCB milling machine at work  

If this ever comes of anything please consider me a potential customer. I'd like to rig it up with screens in the headrests and they would need to work whilst moving and the CID would need to work on SATNAV whilst that was happening. Only when I wanted to manually "flick a switch" would I want to feed the DVD output to the CID.

I don't want much eh?



(Moon on a stick, in case you were wondering)

Believe that the screen only shifts to alternate source when it detects an input (part of the logic on that interface built onto the PCB has).
On the video link on that site you can see that all of the head unit menu's and the clock / source bar at the bottom disappear when the video source is turned on so the interface obviously drives the lcd panel directly.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its a pity there are no gerber files or the original cad files..

[Albatross]

Well I'm looking for someone who can make up the PCB (The layouts are on there, just need to be printed out), then i'd love to have a go.... Anyone got a spare CID so I don't trash mine??? LOL I thought not!

That PCB looks to have been created on a milling machine......

....ow, did I mention we have a PCB milling machine at work  

If this ever comes of anything please consider me a potential customer. I'd like to rig it up with screens in the headrests and they would need to work whilst moving and the CID would need to work on SATNAV whilst that was happening. Only when I wanted to manually "flick a switch" would I want to feed the DVD output to the CID.

I don't want much eh?



(Moon on a stick, in case you were wondering)

Believe that the screen only shifts to alternate source when it detects an input (part of the logic on that interface built onto the PCB has).
On the video link on that site you can see that all of the head unit menu's and the clock / source bar at the bottom disappear when the video source is turned on so the interface obviously drives the lcd panel directly.

That'd be OK though, I would expect a manual override switch, so that I could simply just break the signal, via the switch, whilst I was in motion, or didn't want to see the DVD/TV output, and if I wanted to watch the TV/DVD then I could flip the switch and expect to see that instead of the SATNAV.

Or have I missed your point here?