Sorry if this question has been asked before, but does the nav system play DVD movies?
Thanks

 

No, it does not. At least inserting a DVD movie into the NAV DVD drive will not allow you to play the movie on the NAV screen. I'm sure it possible to hook up an external DVD drive to the system to make it play on the screen but it doesn't work that way out of the box.

 

Next, I suppose you'll say we can't watch TV on the nav screen, either. The Brits get all the good options. Darn U.S. laws, anyway.

 

Can you imagine someone driving while watching a football game and talking on a cel phone? I wish they would ban all forms of cel phone use while driving. Wanna talk, pull over. Wanna drive, hang up the phone.

 

I'm with you there. I knew a guy 20 years ago that had a portable black and white TV in his car. Mostly, I think he watched it while he was parked, between baseball and softball games he was umpiring. But I always wondered if he had it on the passenger seat while he was driving.

The British system on the Mini has some kind of interlock that doesn't allow the TV to be turned on and shown on the nav screen unless the car is parked. The US thinking, I imagine, is that the interlock could be defeated and people could be watching the telly while driving, so they don't allow the TV tuner to be added to the car.

I agree on the cell phones. I've wondered whether the hands-free system is really any safer. I saw a story in the Chicago Tribune this week that said despite a ban on hand-held cell phones while driving in Chicago, police have only handed out 8,000 tickets this year. Compared to 2.8 million speeding tickets.

 

You surely get 2 thumbs up from me on that one.

 

Wait, what? Did I read that right? You can watch TV on the British Nav system?

 

There was a Mythbusters episode where they had the cast drive a car through a course while talking on a cell phone (I think even hands free), and again when legally drunk..... not surprisingly, the results were very similar.

It's not that you're out of control by holding the cell phone (that may help, though), but that your mind isn't on driving.

 

Yea, the key point was that if you have to think about the conversation, you can't safely drive. We are not multi-taskers. We switch tasks.

 

It's dumb to watch movies and drive in the first place, if you are thinking of having a kid or passenger in theback watch movies, get a portable dvd player for them and plug it into the power outlet. This saves you from having a movie distracting you. However it would eb interesting to know if they played DVD audio, thats supposedly higher quality than a regular CD, and of coarse the bands I listen to aren't on.

 

Yes, I would believe that. You can see the same thing when you pass someone who's having a big animated conversation with their passenger. They're paying more attention to the conversation than their driving and it shows. They drift some in their lane and their speed is way up and way down. No consistency at all.

It's an added option, but they can order a TV tuner for their nav system and watch it while waiting for their spouse to come out of the store or from their workplace, wherever.

 

The Nav/DVD system will play a DVD mp3 disc!! 4+ gigs of music!!

 

still there has to be some way to take a DVD based navigation system and make it able to play DVDs.... it's got to be a simple programming... or not so simple..

 

I would think easier to just wire a small DVD player...or PS3 into the NAV screen.

Anyone know what type of signal the new NAV screen works on? PAL?

-Gene

 

Plus, talking on a phone requires a lot more "brain time" due to the lack of all the visual clues (hand gestures, facial expressions, etc) we also get when talking in person.

 

Just wondering.... did you have the parking brake set too, when you tried it?

 

 

JPMM...


So what's the deal? How did you do it? Maybe that NAV screen is somewhat similar to the new ones on the R56.

 

Well its a box that plugs in between the NAV unit and the screen so that you can bypass the NAV unit and input up to 2 video inputs. The audio goes in via the aux input or other means. Its a tiny box and a switch to switch between the nav unit and the video inputs. It basically uses the rear camera inputs for your video

 

more info plz

 

For the 1st gen Nav (as pictured above), there are numerous aftermarket video input modules for the BMW/MINI navigation unit of that era (I have one on my R52 -- actually it's an OEM module from MINI).

I haven't seen much for the 2nd gen Nav. Newministuff is using some video module in combination with a rear view camera: http://www.newministuff.com/new/shop...uctshow&id=591.
A quick Google search yielded these that you can follow up on:
http://electronics-pluz.com/na09bmmicona.html
http://www.avelectronic.com/NavigationVid-Switcher.html

 

http://www.tvandnav2go.com/cooper-mi...ifications.php

 

any step by step instruction guides?

 

its for sale, but I can only say it worked on my 2003 "under the pass seat" Nav computer

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co.../21736/cat/500

 

How do you do the install?