Audio Visual
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Alpine’s obsession with building a mental demo vehicles has continued, previous builds include Sinister 6, that chopped Mini Cooper, and last year’s Imprint RLS. This year they went all out, building a fully pimped ski boat and tow vehicle to promote their new Marine line.
This one-of-a-kind boat started life as a battered 25-foot 1994 Commander V-bottom, and was crafted into a custom ski boat ready to make it’s own waves!
Alpine’s guys carved new, and re-molded the factory lines, straightening the fiberglass shell into quite simply something else!The boat ended uplooking 10 times better than when it left its factory in the first place! The team modified the intakes and completely revamped the interior from scratch.
The boat apparently took up 4000 hours of work and took about 5 months to complete. The guys mad enough to take on this mammoth task were Steve Brown, Gary Bell, and Brent Davison - Rather tham than me!
This build is just too mad for words - Happy Sailing!
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Just two days shy of their one-year birthday, Panasonic is introducing a couple of successors in the Strada F-Class line. Announced in Japan, the June-bound CN-HX1000D and CN-HW1000D are both destined for gaping holes in dashes and possess a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, built-in Bluetooth, iPod compatibility, AM / FM tuners, digital terrestrial TV tuner, DVD / CD player and an internal hard drive for storing map data and Sade jams. The only noticeable difference is the physical size; the former is a single-DIN unit while the latter touts a double-DIN frame. These two also allow for home control, so you can lock your doors, turn the heat down and flip off the porch light from the driver’s seat. Sure sounds pleasant, if only they weren’t ¥354,900 ($3,388) apiece.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Sony has launched a new double-din DVD/CD AV system, the XAV-W1. This is Sony’s first attempt at a double din-sized in-car AV System, providing outstanding picture and sound quality,it allows easy connectivity to MP3 players and loads of personalisation options.
Packed with the latest must have technology, this latest Sony in-car screen boasts a Sony-designed 7″ double WVGA TFT Touch Monitor which delivers superb picture quality (800 x 480 pixel). Other features include DRIVE-S II for top notch picture and sound quality the unit also features including “Karaoke-Mic”, which enables your passengers to enjoy a sing-along of all their favourite songs whilst you drive! Read the rest of this entry »
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Double-DIN Multimedia Player with 6.1 inch Screen
A control hub for your mobile theatre experience.
The AVH-P4000DVD integrates perfectly into your car’s 2-DIN slot. It acts as the control centre for all your in-car entertainment needs.
The system will play your complete music and film collection. You can enjoy almost all commercially available digital entertainment formats including DivX movies; your MP3 songs, iTunes collection and of course all the standard DVD and CD formats.
Bring your digital music players in-car, too. Connect your USB music player to the rear USB-in or your iPod (for music and video) directly with our optional CD-I200 cable. Read the rest of this entry »
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Panasonic’s Value for Money ethos is amazing. You can see it operating up close when you check out what a £100 higher price tag gets you for their posher 7005 deck. It looks very similar in that it too is a single-DIN DVD deck with a sexy 7 inch touch screen. This 5005 is a one-er cheaper but you lose 5dB of dynamic range and signal to noise ratio on CD playback, although you really would be hard put to hear that with any background sound at all. You lose all those surround sound things like extra centre channel outputs and dts and SRS stuff although it’ll read Dolby Digital and down mix it to stereo. There is no digital output for feeding to a decoder. You don’t get the time alignment or the seven band EQ but you do get the three band version of their SQ system and DivX certification means that the web’s favourite movie format is readable on your deck. This is a cherry back to you as the more expensive machine does not have this. The LCD TV screen panel is the same with the same pixel count, so the resolution and picture will be the same. As car screens seem to have a rule to show adult entertainment, this is perfectly on-genre. Read the rest of this entry »
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