Well With The Rio/Empeg being purchased, is there any chance of a MK3 comming out soon ??? maybe even color ?

Well With The Rio/Empeg being purchased, is there any chance of a MK3 comming out soon ??? maybe even color ?

This is the Mk3.

Any Chance of Not having to Wait 3 to 4 years and buying a New car to get one.

nope

Where have you been, dude, MK3 was released in 1995.

Thats Bites the big one,,, I know my Empeg will not last forever and Pioneer, SOny, Alpine and Kenwood already have a "Empeg Like" device Seems foolish to put off building the MK3 for 3 or 4 years,

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"Where have you been, dude, MK3 was released in 1995.

-Tony <tonycpsu(at)yahoo(dot)com>
MkII #554, MkIIa #2680"

Your Empeg will last years and years. The only moving part is the hard drive which get cheaper and cheaper all the time. The rest is solid state and unlikely to break unless you drop it. Even if something did go wrong, its seldom something that can't be fixed by users on this BBS, or by sending to Rob Schofield.

Yes, there's always *a* chance. It might be 1 in a million, but who knows?

Truthfully, we don't know the details of the Visteon deal. We don't know if Visteon might ask for an aftermarket edition. We don't know if Rio's new owners may have plans of their own for an OEM Mk3. Or if the Visteon deal may preclude that. (I'd hope not). There is much we don't know - and much that Rob cannot tell us.

So I can't see where you're coming from with such a definitive answer.

I know my Empeg will not last forever

Why wouldn't it?

Pioneer, SOny, Alpine and Kenwood already have a "Empeg Like" device

Yeah, but they all suck.

Smacks Tony upside the head with a Piece of Trout

Quickly blocks the trout, counters with a 27-hit combo, finishes belzeebub off with a fatality.

by reading the thread that Tony posted. At the time it was pretty much agreed that it wouldn't appear anytime soon.

yn0t_ WINS!

I hope it lasts forever but my little car is running out of room and I need a GPS and other items (I am on the road 220 Days out of the year driving around doing support)
Was Hoping to get my cake and eat it too.

60 Gig of Mp3's and a gps in a single unit

GPS and Empeg go very nicely together. There are several projects. I'm sure someone will point you to the threads (I wouldn't know where to start!)

When Stacked next to the Empeg unit I agree they all Suck rocks but when you start looking at

Full Color Screens, DVD changer, GPS and Nav Systems, thay are not all that bad anymore.

yn0t_ WINS!

Okay, I just had to tell one of my coworkers with a straight face that a it was compilation error message that made me bust out laughing very loudly during work hours.

Thanks, Bitt.

I know my Empeg will not last forever and Pioneer, SOny, Alpine and Kenwood already have a "Empeg Like" device

To my knowledge, the Empeg is the only pull out unit with RCA outs, correct? Even the "mk3" won't be a pull out, if I remember that thread right. To me this is the best feature of the Empeg, and the reason I no longer carry CDs. I have all my music everywhere I go. As for color screens etc, I personally could care less if it isn't a pull out unit.

It does seem my needs are different from yours, however.

Fancy gimmicks, thats all. Why do you need a full colour screen to play music? Empeg has no gimmicks, its a serious piece of high end audio equipment. Theres nothing out there to beat it.

Gimmicks would be nice as an extra, but I'm not really bothered.

I'm going to have to say that visualizations are a gimmick.

Agreed, and I could live without them. They are a very nice touch though, but if there was a trade-off between better audio clarity, and visuals, I know which one i'd lose.

The Big Issue for me is the GPS and Nav, my little car doesn't have room to add a screen and the Unit by Alpine, Kenwood Etc has a built in screen but only a 10,16 or 30 G drive and no where near the Ease of use of the empeg, ( I have used mine so much I can find most songs by feel alone I don't need to even look)

Okay, and all the "gimmicks" he mentioned could also be "nice touches" in the next generation car audio player. You're walking a fine line if you're trying to delineate gimmicks and nice touches.

Ok, I'll take the Empeg off your hands?

Emmm... I guess I'm just saying that the Empeg is a great piece of kit, and anything extra I could live without.

Because when I am going an Address of 1313 Mockingbird lane in Ut and told to be there on tuesday it would be nice to have a GPS using the same Unit I have . I know there are a bunch of GPS Projects using the extra cpu cycles on the Empeg to port out to a PDA it seem cumbersome and clunkie and a MK3 or MK4 with color and a GPS built in is just what the doctor ordered.


"Fancy gimmicks, thats all. Why do you need a full colour screen to play music? Empeg has no gimmicks, its a serious piece of high end audio equipment. Theres nothing out there to beat it.

Gimmicks would be nice as an extra, but I'm not really bothered. "

Thanks, Bitt.

I do what I can.

when I am going an Address of 1313 Mockingbird lane

You can't fit more than one din unit in that hearse jalopy? Too many turbo pressure readouts and whatnot?

MK3 or MK4 with color and a GPS built in is just what the doctor ordered

It would be tres slick.

Baby Blazer Single Din Opening and not even enough room behind the EMpeg for the Tuner. Damm Compact Cars


"You can't fit more than one din unit in that hearse jalopy? Too many turbo pressure readouts and whatnot?
"

Ok, I'm sure most of us would love a unit that had an upgradable hard drive, was pull-out with home RCA's, had a fantastic UI, played DVDs on a 36" widescreen, made coffee while you use GPS etc etc, oh... and played music. I just don't see if coming anytime soon. I HOPE I'm wrong and Camelot appears next week, but the public are just about coping with mp3s, so who knows if the market is ready. I suppose Visteon is paying hundreds of thousands to find this information out.