Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ?

Posted by: belezeebub

Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 15:52

I just love beating a dead horse (when they are dead they don't fight back)

with all new advances since the empeg was created has anyone given any though to replacing the VFD with a color lcd touch screen or color lcd (digikey seems to have a ton of them listed http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Criteria?Ref=16047&Site=US&Cat=31851328)

I am currently selling my Empeg but if a Color one came out with a touch screen or even just color and it was cheaper then the 2500 or so I am spending for a IVA-300, Ipod adapter and 40 G ipod I would jump at it)

Empeg Lighted buttons Color Screen updated Sound card and 100 gig sounds pretty sweet to me.
Posted by: siberia37

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 17:14

You could get a Hauppage MediaMVP (little video player box) hook it up to the a LCD and to the Empeg's ethernet port and use it to play videos you have on your empeg. That's the only practical way to use a color screen with the empeg right now. Unless you are a EE genius that is...
Posted by: belezeebub

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 18:23

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. Unless you are a EE genius that is...


Well I am not an EE Genius now if you need someone to config a firewall or a router to allow arp packeds from north yimen then I am your geek.

I can go pick up a touch screen radio for 500 bucks it can't be that spendy anymore to make them. (I remember there is onyl Color Empeg it was a special project and cost a TON of Cash) surely the Empeg 3 has to be under production in some secret area and they are just teasting us about not making it.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 18:28

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surely the Empeg 3 has to be under production in some secret area and they are just teasting us about not making it.


Yes, it's in production in a secret area. This guy mentions it half way down the page here.
Posted by: belezeebub

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 18:40

I scanned the page I saw a few items but no car player that I would consider a Empeg 3.


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surely the Empeg 3 has to be under production in some secret area and they are just teasting us about not making it.


Yes, it's in production in a secret area. This guy mentions it half way down the page here.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 18:41

My point being, that everything they are developing now is in the portables market. Because the market for new car players is zilch.
Posted by: JBjorgen

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 19:08

A good company with a little luck and some spiffy advertising can create a market. We all know the portable mp3 market existed before IPod, but Apple brought it mainstream. I'm convinced a good company with a good product could do the same for an automotive player (even if it's merely a portable that installs in-dash).

The bigger problem is that the auto manufacturers are making it much harder to integrate after-market audio into the dash these days.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 19:24

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I'm convinced a good company with a good product could do the same for an automotive player (even if it's merely a portable that installs in-dash).


A few have tried, including Sony and Pioneer, if I recall correctly. If anyone can do it, they can, but I don't see in-dash hard disk players being any more popular than the Empeg was yet.


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The bigger problem is that the auto manufacturers are making it much harder to integrate after-market audio into the dash these days.


And that's the real problem, isn't it?
Posted by: JBjorgen

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 19:47

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A few have tried, including Sony and Pioneer

Hence the "good product" caveat.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 19:49

Posted by: FireFox31

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 04/10/2004 21:34

Not to nit pick, but:
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We all know the portable mp3 market existed before IPod, but Apple brought it mainstream.

I seemed to notice everyone I knew had flash-based Rios for years and years; even people who barely knew what MP3 was. But if you ment "hdd based portable mp3 market", then yes, that was known only to the geek elite before iPod.

::sigh:: I'm still so sad that when I talk to the unlearn'ed, I can't identify the Karma (etc) without saying, "Yeah, it's like an iPod."
Posted by: RobotCaleb

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 07/10/2004 04:31

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Not to nit pick, but:

nitpick*
Posted by: Skunk

Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? - 08/10/2004 18:27

I still have my Rio PMP300. I was my very first portable MP3 player. I would use it almost always in the car, directly connected to my amps. I recently brought it back out from storage to use the flash card for one of my digital cameras.
I was curious as to whether it still worked or not. Fired it up and played fine despite the damaged LCD display.