What was it that the Amersfoort display actually did? Was it a replacement/duplicate empeg front-panel display or did it show alternate data? If the latter, what sort of alternate data was it and did it show it concurrently with normal empeg operation?

Given that there are now in-car DVD players and a pair of VCDs (about 1.2 GB) can hold a movie with reasonable quality (especially considering the fairly small displays that would be appropriate in this environment) and we can now get 120GB worth of data in our empegs, it would be cool to be able to hold and display 100 different movies on the empeg. Of course, I have no idea if the ARM in the empeg could do real-time MPEG-2 system stream decoding. But maybe an off-board controller could if it could just throw the data at it.

(Am I just reiterating what other people have said? Maybe I missed a thread somewhere. This all seems so obvious now.)