mate of a mate has bmw e39 5 series with dvd sat nav activated for tv, the factory turn the option off for safety and probably quality reasons, it is totally useless on the move and not much better parked up. You have to move the car to get signal every time you change channel.
As usual with new tech, every where else in the world seems to be getting mobile tv well before the uk, presumably being mobile and less bandwidth it will work on the move? Anybody seen it in action... in Europe maybe?
Mobile TV has been round for a while.....sadly the BBC stopped thier service around 6 months ago.
Yes sorry, i refer not to the blockly squarky utter dog pile that orange and other mobile providers where passing off as tv, and was little more than streamed video via gprs 3 or 3.5g connection. Even with the best possible reception it dropped out if you sneezed. In some areas, Newquay etc, they havent even hurd of 3g the network doesnt have the coverage.
No, i mean the mobile version of the proper freeview digital tv that requires its own bandwidth to work. Unfortunately it cant be broadcast in the uk until AFTER the hd re shuffle and analogue has been switched off to make room for it. It is not operator dependent. THAT mobile tv(digital is it?) its available on the nokia n96 and works in Europe i believe as its sold with the software built in, but, hence my comment, we in the uk are the last to get it. Between that and tmc messages... well, its all a bit gay really, isnt it!
Or put it another way IF i had an n96 wired via its tv out to CID, and lived in europe i would have free digital freeview tv received via mobile phone displayed on the cars screen...
... and tmc messages to give traffic on my sat nav by the way but thats another story!
Thats why ive been nagging yourself and Jamie to run a composite input to the colour info display...
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