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can i add a tv ?

Post by stevie_514 » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:09 pm

i recently bought a zed with sat nav pro. unfortunately no tv..... can i put a tv on it and if so how , or do i have to replace it entirely with one that has ?
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Post by revesby37 » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:12 pm

Why on earth would you want TV in a car? :?
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Post by ranski » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:12 pm

You need a bmw digital tv module - around £500
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Re: can i add a tv ?

Post by Dean » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:17 pm

how about a reversing camera?

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Post by Zed Five » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:44 pm

Yes. If you get a digital tv module and the cable from BMW, if piggybacks to the Satnav DVD unit. You can easily make the aerial. I did this by using copper cable running through the rubber seal of the bootlid. Worked great. When I sold my roadster, I removed it and re installed in my coupe. Easy - but module is pricey for the use it will get..
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Post by stevie_514 » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:02 pm

Zed Five wrote:Yes. If you get a digital tv module and the cable from BMW, if piggybacks to the Satnav DVD unit. You can easily make the aerial. I did this by using copper cable running through the rubber seal of the bootlid. Worked great. When I sold my roadster, I removed it and re installed in my coupe. Easy - but module is pricey for the use it will get..
thanks for that :)
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Post by stevie_514 » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:03 pm

ranski wrote:You need a bmw digital tv module - around £500
way too much for me :o
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Post by Zed Five » Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:27 pm

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11703726/BMW%20 ... trofit.pdf


all you need.

(just ignore the aerial bit and do as i did)
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Post by GreyZed » Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:31 pm

Zed Five wrote:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11703726/BMW%20 ... trofit.pdf


all you need.

(just ignore the aerial bit and do as i did)
This looks like the instructions for installing an analogue tuner.
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Re: can i add a tv ?

Post by srhutch » Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:58 pm

GreyZed wrote:
Zed Five wrote:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11703726/BMW%20 ... trofit.pdf


all you need.

(just ignore the aerial bit and do as i did)
This looks like the instructions for installing an analogue tuner.
Digital tuners are the same :wink:
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can i add a tv ?

Post by frazell » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:52 am

You can convert an analogue unit to digital pretty easily with this great little project from the E46 forum;

http://pibus.info/tv/

I've done it myself and it was pretty straight forward and is almost plug and play. Once you have the TV installed you can then go with the pibus project which gives you XBMC on the monitor up front;

http://pibus.info/index.html

There are a few limitation with the Z4 bus compared to the E46 but the developer has added some functionality for the Z4.

Its a pretty cool project. :thumbsup:

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