Comments on: Add a dual screen iPod video system to your car for under $200 http://macenstein.com/default/2007/05/add-a-dual-screen-ipod-video-system-to-your-car-for-under-200/ Mac news and rumors dug up on the web and sewn into and unholy monster Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: P http://macenstein.com/default/2007/05/add-a-dual-screen-ipod-video-system-to-your-car-for-under-200/comment-page-1/#comment-159864 P Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:16:21 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/633#comment-159864 I did the exact same thing, Brought 20 videos on family vacation for the kids. Used my 2 DVD system that the DVD player died on. works amazing. What I want is to have the video play on the Ipod AND on video out at the same time!!! I did the exact same thing, Brought 20 videos on family vacation for the kids. Used my 2 DVD system that the DVD player died on. works amazing.
What I want is to have the video play on the Ipod AND on video out at the same time!!!

]]> By: WildDenali http://macenstein.com/default/2007/05/add-a-dual-screen-ipod-video-system-to-your-car-for-under-200/comment-page-1/#comment-52048 WildDenali Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:16:50 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/633#comment-52048 This is just about what I was plannning to do when my Best Buy branded "Insignia" dual-screen DVD system went belly-up. Actually, just the $3 8-pin DIN cable (which sent power, video and audio from the DVD player to the dual LCD screens) was the part that went bad. The cable is almost exactly like the old mac printer serial cables, but with a different pin-out configuration. Obviously I did try Mac serial printer cables, which didn't work. I couldn't find the exact replacement part anywhere, not even from Best Buy or Insignia directly. So I was down to using one screen. And then finally, I spilled soda into the cheap portable DVD player (with those proprietary DIN connectors) and that was that. No more mobile video. Until I started planning exactly what you did! I'm about to buy an 80GB refurbished video iPod from Apple's store, and I've been looking for the power cables on Radio Shack's website. It's amazing that we both came up with this idea around the same time. Necessity is the mother of invention, I suppose. I plan on using the DLO TransDock to feed the video to an RCA dual splitter to feed both monitors. Then feed power using a Radio Shack power adapter on one side and the included adapter on the other. This is just about what I was plannning to do when my Best Buy branded “Insignia” dual-screen DVD system went belly-up. Actually, just the $3 8-pin DIN cable (which sent power, video and audio from the DVD player to the dual LCD screens) was the part that went bad. The cable is almost exactly like the old mac printer serial cables, but with a different pin-out configuration. Obviously I did try Mac serial printer cables, which didn’t work. I couldn’t find the exact replacement part anywhere, not even from Best Buy or Insignia directly. So I was down to using one screen. And then finally, I spilled soda into the cheap portable DVD player (with those proprietary DIN connectors) and that was that. No more mobile video.

Until I started planning exactly what you did! I’m about to buy an 80GB refurbished video iPod from Apple’s store, and I’ve been looking for the power cables on Radio Shack’s website. It’s amazing that we both came up with this idea around the same time. Necessity is the mother of invention, I suppose.

I plan on using the DLO TransDock to feed the video to an RCA dual splitter to feed both monitors. Then feed power using a Radio Shack power adapter on one side and the included adapter on the other.

]]> By: Pharoah6905 http://macenstein.com/default/2007/05/add-a-dual-screen-ipod-video-system-to-your-car-for-under-200/comment-page-1/#comment-51531 Pharoah6905 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:37:39 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/633#comment-51531 What an amazing, lengthy, detailed, yet informative post! I like the fact that you included so much detail to make it possible for even a non-technical person to follow along and do it themselves. Even though I already had an idea of how this could be done, it is still nice to have proof that it works, and a guide to save me from making some silly mistakes. Maybe someday when I have the money (and someone to sit in the back seat and watch it) I'll try this out in my Saab 9-3 and let you know how it works. Once again, excellent post and keep up the great work. What an amazing, lengthy, detailed, yet informative post! I like the fact that you included so much detail to make it possible for even a non-technical person to follow along and do it themselves. Even though I already had an idea of how this could be done, it is still nice to have proof that it works, and a guide to save me from making some silly mistakes. Maybe someday when I have the money (and someone to sit in the back seat and watch it) I’ll try this out in my Saab 9-3 and let you know how it works. Once again, excellent post and keep up the great work.

]]> By: HomunculusAvatar http://macenstein.com/default/2007/05/add-a-dual-screen-ipod-video-system-to-your-car-for-under-200/comment-page-1/#comment-50824 HomunculusAvatar Thu, 31 May 2007 12:23:25 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/633#comment-50824 Great post! Thanks for sharing your experience. You just saved me so much time, money and frustration. Speaking of which, my wife thanks you too. ; ) Great post! Thanks for sharing your experience. You just saved me so much time, money and frustration. Speaking of which, my wife thanks you too. ; )

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