COMAND Digital TV
09-03-2004, 03:07 PM
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COMAND Digital TV
That's it... I've had enough with our crippled COMAND in US... I'm moving to Europe! Autospies:
As of October this year, Mercedes customers will be able to receive digital TV channels whilst on the move. The Stuttgart car brand has developed a digital receiver capable of retrofitting to E, CL, S and SL-Class models, and which is available from Mercedes-Benz sales and service outlets and sales partners. Installation of the equipment requires that vehicles are equipped with the COMAND control and display system as well as the analogue TV tuner currently available. The new digital receiver is connected to the analogue tuner so that car passengers can switch between analogue and digital TV reception as demanded by local transmission circumstances.
The digital TV receiver used by Mercedes-Benz has four aerials and two tuners to guarantee good reception stability, and with its high resistance to impact and interference and immunity to temperature fluctuations has been ideally adapted for in-car operation. The equipment, operated by remote control or from the display, also comes with a teletext facility featuring a 1000-page memory, as well as the Electronic Program Guide (EPG).
The technical principles of digital television have brought about the new broadcasting standard DVB-t (Digital Video Broadcasting-terrestrial), scheduled for introduction throughout the whole of Germany and in some other European countries by 2010. As compared with existing analogue broadcasting technology, this will facilitate much better picture and tone quality, as well as offering an increased range of programmes. In future, in urban conurbations it will be possible to choose from more than 20 free broadcasters.
For reasons of safety, TV reception on board a Mercedes passenger car is only possible at speeds up to approximately 8 km/h. In excess of this, COMAND automatically fades out the TV picture in order that the driver is not distracted from the traffic situation. A special screen is available for rear-seat passengers in the E and S-Class so that they can enjoy digital television programmes at speeds up to140 km/h.
Mercedes-Benz will be offering the digital TV receiver a few months after the decision is taken to replace analogue terrestrial TV reception in Germany with the modern digital reception technology. Digital television is already currently being transmitted in Berlin-Brandenburg – with other German states to follow shortly. Some other European countries are also in the process of converting to DVB-t technology
Mercedes-Benz introduces in-car digital television
New digital TV receiver for COMAND system retrofit
Good reception stability even whilst driving
New digital TV receiver for COMAND system retrofit
Good reception stability even whilst driving
As of October this year, Mercedes customers will be able to receive digital TV channels whilst on the move. The Stuttgart car brand has developed a digital receiver capable of retrofitting to E, CL, S and SL-Class models, and which is available from Mercedes-Benz sales and service outlets and sales partners. Installation of the equipment requires that vehicles are equipped with the COMAND control and display system as well as the analogue TV tuner currently available. The new digital receiver is connected to the analogue tuner so that car passengers can switch between analogue and digital TV reception as demanded by local transmission circumstances.
The digital TV receiver used by Mercedes-Benz has four aerials and two tuners to guarantee good reception stability, and with its high resistance to impact and interference and immunity to temperature fluctuations has been ideally adapted for in-car operation. The equipment, operated by remote control or from the display, also comes with a teletext facility featuring a 1000-page memory, as well as the Electronic Program Guide (EPG).
The technical principles of digital television have brought about the new broadcasting standard DVB-t (Digital Video Broadcasting-terrestrial), scheduled for introduction throughout the whole of Germany and in some other European countries by 2010. As compared with existing analogue broadcasting technology, this will facilitate much better picture and tone quality, as well as offering an increased range of programmes. In future, in urban conurbations it will be possible to choose from more than 20 free broadcasters.
For reasons of safety, TV reception on board a Mercedes passenger car is only possible at speeds up to approximately 8 km/h. In excess of this, COMAND automatically fades out the TV picture in order that the driver is not distracted from the traffic situation. A special screen is available for rear-seat passengers in the E and S-Class so that they can enjoy digital television programmes at speeds up to140 km/h.
Mercedes-Benz will be offering the digital TV receiver a few months after the decision is taken to replace analogue terrestrial TV reception in Germany with the modern digital reception technology. Digital television is already currently being transmitted in Berlin-Brandenburg – with other German states to follow shortly. Some other European countries are also in the process of converting to DVB-t technology
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Originally Posted by interpol
As of October this year
But be aware, the "digital tuner" just uses the inputs on the regular TV tuner, thus your precious "all digital" signal is converted into a normal PAL analog signal before being input into the car's TV tuner. Not a really good solution except to allow greater selection of content.
Since OTA broadcast here in the US doesn't offer much I want to watch, I think the addition of digital reception wouldn't make things any better here.
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