activate tv on cl55 2004

[fast cars]

can anyone tell me how this is done or who can do it?

Thanks

[steve_amv8]

What do you mean by activate?

If the car doesn't have the TV tuner module then it won't work .... and even if it did, I would work for long since I'd assume it is analogue not digital (certainly the one in my '03 CL55 is)

Edited by steve_amv8 on Wednesday 21st October 21:17

[r129sl]

The world has gone mad. Why would anyone want an electric television in his car? I won't have one in my house. Really, they should take the vote off such people.

[Vixpy1]

I had one in the M3, the most useless thing ever fitted to a car.. ever

[phumy]

r129sl said:

Why would anyone want an electric television in his car?.

Are you saying there are tv's that dont run on electric too.....

[r129sl]

Gas?

[markbe]

r129sl said:

Gas?

Yup....Neon.

Mark

[r129sl]

markbe, this has made my day.

From the internet, so it must be true:

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5313085_do-neon-tv-tu...

Basics
Neon TV tubes were used in the very first commercially available televisions in the 1920s. They were popular up until the mid-1930s when electrical televisions were introduced. Soon after the introduction of all electrical TVs, the use of neon tubes in televisions became obsolete. Mechanical televisions with neon tubes are still sometimes built by hobbyists, however.

How Neon Tubes Work
Neon TV tubes are integral to the function of a mechanical television. Once the mechanical television receives the signal, that signal is changed into a repeating sequence of light flashes. A disc called the reproducing disc then rotates rapidly in front of the tube, and each flash is converted into a small section of the image. The very quick speed of the rotating disc makes it possible for the viewer to perceive this as a moving image. On a mechanical television, this equates to the brain seeing an image every one-tenth of a second.

Edited by r129sl on Thursday 22 October 22:53

[fast cars]

my car has the sat nav wde screen and has a button for TV , really wanting to know if the tv software can be retro fit ?

Thanks

[SLacKer]

As mentioned earlier you do need a TV Tuner box.

http://www.mercupgrades.com/Installing+TV+Tuner+in...

This place details a lot of what is possible.

Also

http://www.comandeurope.com/

do a lot of this stuff and are in Woking.