What about .mpeg video files output to an incar TV Screen ?

This has been mentioned before, and here's my opinion:

1) Watching movies in the car, at least up on the front dashboard, doesn't make any sense to me to begin with.

2) If you want to watch movies, there's already in-car DVD players which do this job much better.

3) Shuffling a huge collection of music in your car, without CD swapping, makes a lot of sense. In fact, it makes so much sense that I wanted to do it long before I heard about the Empeg Car. But shuffling a few dozen 2-hour movies in the car doesn't make sense. At least not to me.

4) The only time that movies in the car make sense to me is in the case of RVs and in the back seat for the kids on long trips. But in those situations, an ordinary DVD or VCR seems fine to me. I have no desire to compress 2-hour movies onto a hard disk, I'm fine with swapping a disc every 2 hours.

I'd much rather put that kind of storage to better use: Higher quality song files, and more of them. Space as a file taxi. Space to record digital audio, for tivo-like features with the radio. Space to allow ripping CDs directly on the player, like the upcoming big-name unit discussed earlier here on the BBS.

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Tony Fabris