The screen was the top end Pioneer AV unit when I got it a couple of years ago.
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its dropped a few notches down the list now.
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but was
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£899 list when I got it.
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got it from Hendon Car Audio for around
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£670.
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The Xbox was
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£150.
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plus
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£20 for the chip, which i soldered myself, and a spare 40gb IBM disk I had.
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That was the old setup, powered by a 300W invertor and a remote switching wire to the switch on the front of the xbox
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(top left, and bottom right pins shorted)
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The new setup uses the Espresso mini PC.
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£150 with 64mb and 4gb disk.
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I got a 256mb dimm
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(£50) and a 40gb laptop drive
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(£50).
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Its running a VERY small isntall of Win XP, just for the better suspend/hibernate features that XP has.
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The wireless remote was
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£18.
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from digitalcar.co.uk forums.
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To be honest, its a much nicer setup than the Xbox
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- it runs from a small laptop 12v supply, so no nasty invertor.
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its tiny and small.
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The other bits and pieces still use the Pioneer av head unit
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(AVHP6400), but with an extra Pioneer MEHP9000 minidisc/slot cd head unit in the second DIN slot below.
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a 12 disc CDXP1250 Pioneer changer, two Infinity Reference 7502 amplifiers feeding 655cs Reference components up front and 6502 Reference coaxials in the back.
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The PC just connects to the aux-in of the av head unit to display and via a good gauge stereo jack to phono cable for sound.
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Everything mixes through the av head unit, and through the amps to the speakers.
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No speakers are driven directly and all volume is controlled by the rotary control on the front.
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Sound sweet
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Paul, you don't happen to work at Malvern, do you?