did a search for DVD indash (ie kenwood,pioneer, ect) does anyone have a pic of it installed?

 

Naughty Naughty. I'm against putting a dvd or any video in a car. When you drive, you should drive. No yaking on the cell, watching a movie, or playing video games.

 

Here's one:

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index.php?showtopic=24873

 

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index.php?showtopic=26966

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index.php?showtopic=23606

 

MP3Car.com

Awesome site for installing a car computer. Way better than buying a $1500+ DVD player for your car, if you are willing to do the work. I'm planning on installing one with GPS, DVD, and MP3 support to replace my Shaker 500.

 

I still think it is scary when peopel have dvd/video players in their cars in full view of the driver. I work in a movie/music store on weekends and I am amazed at people who come in for stuff so they can watch them while driving on long trips. I've even had guys looking for PS2 systems so they can play games while at red lights, ect. Even if you don't plan on watching it yourself its just one for thing that can easally distract you.

 

moving to audio section

 

Agreed. I plan on installing a Mac in mine with a wide touchscreen display. Run that to a 5/6ch amp. With a car computer, you get GPS, DVD, CD, MP3, bluetooth, wireless internet. You also get the ability to run a custom display so you can see album art of the music, etc. It's cheaper and more capabilities, but definitely more install work. Here's another site: MacVroom

 

I have a flipout unit from clarion...love it

 

Just curious how much this is going to run you. I looked at some of the prices and quite frankly, they ain't cheap.

 

DC-DC PSU is around $150, a quality touchscreen is $400, then it is just basically the components to build a 1ghz+ computer. So easily under $1000. Check out that site, there is a lot of people's projects that they have done for even less than that.

 

I must be looking in the wrong place on the web site then.

Motherboard-$330 ( average, I picked one in the middle of the price range )
Case-$75
Hard drive, 100gig $250. Yea, you could get smaller, but why?
Power Supply-$150
Start up/shut down controller-$100
Monitor-$400
DVD Drive-$100
Sound Card-$135
512mb memory-$100

Thats over $1600 and doesn't include a processor, operating system, and could probably stand to have the memory doubled. Then you're talking another $300 for the GPS receiver and navigation software. Not to mention a radio interface of some type, satellite radio interface if you want that, bluetooth, etc. Don't get me wrong, I am not in any way saying that they are not cool or ******* them or saying they are not the way to go. I am simply saying that they are expensive. Sure, you could build a budget one, and then be pissed off because it needs upgraded.

 

You don't need a start up/shut down controller with the Opus I believe. And the rest of the prices I would consider pretty high (except for the Monitor which is almost $400 for a real quality one) The great thing is, you don't even need all the gear to be brand new. Except for the GPS, PSU, and LCD monitor I would say a lot of computer types are going to have most of that stuff laying around the house. I know I have two computers just sitting in my storage room ready to pull parts from.

Once again, if your interested just check mp3car.com and see what people are spending. I assure you it is highly attainable for under $1000 for a very decent system. Not a gaming system by any means that you would put on your desktop, but you don't need that kind of power anyways in a carputer.