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[BaywayRic]

OK help me understand this BaywayRic. I understand that if you put in a DVD with the car in Park (or does the engine have to be off?) that the DVD video will display on the screen and you will hear the sound. You could actually watch a DVD this way, right? What happens if you then put the car in Drive and you take off? Will you continue to hear the DVD sound without seeing the video?

This Eagles DVD is actually a video DVD of a live concert, right? So to listen to it in the car, are you actually playing a video DVD, but just listenting to the sound without the picture?

I think you have it exactly right. The car has to be in ACC or higher, not off. As long as you are in PARK, everything works. As soon as you shift out of park, the video screen displays a message, and the AUDIO continues like normal. If you are in PARK, the Eagles DVD shows you the actual concert. In drive, you just get the music. When you shift back to PARK, the video display picks right up where the sound track is.

The thing that kind of ticks me off is that you can fully navigate the DVD menu structure and do all the setup stuff, and select song tracks, etc. WHILE DRIVING and probably run off the road just as easily as you could watching the video in the first place.

My Tint guy also does sound systems and sells dash mounted DVDs. He said some play in drive, some don't. He said all systems are controlled by a wired linkage, not software, so I assume it's just a matter of time before someone figures out where the wire is to overcome the PARK interlock.

 

[Simonwpb]

The 7.1 sound system has great clarity... I noticed that you can turn the volume to maximum and still listen to the music (You don't quite reach the point where you are afraid to turn it too loud!). My guess is the system is programmed that way so you don't blow out your speakers.