LCD above head unit?

arcticreaver · 04-14-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by wstar

Or if you want to get all Fast & Furious Magden M.1b

actually i want that magden. i like the look of it. probably somewhere down the road though. right now, i'm focused on performance parts.

wstar · 04-14-2009, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by arcticreaver

actually i want that magden. i like the look of it. probably somewhere down the road though. right now, i'm focused on performance parts.

Yeah the laugh was more at Fast&Furious than the actual Magden unit, which is pretty sweet. What would be really ideal, would be to find a way to hook up the Magden and a remote GPS unit to the same generic touch-screen LCD in the center console and switch between the two. Video switching is easy, but I'm not sure how well the GPS and/or Magden would deal with switching the USB touch-screen inputs.

So basically, something like: Magden M.1b + Lilliput 7" touch-screen LCD + Garmin GVN-53. The Garmin unit doesn't take touch-screen input though, only remote-control input. Who makes a GPS module like that GVN-53 that does touch-screen on a remote LCD?

arcticreaver · 04-14-2009, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by wstar

Yeah the laugh was more at Fast&Furious than the actual Magden unit, which is pretty sweet. What would be really ideal, would be to find a way to hook up the Magden and a remote GPS unit to the same generic touch-screen LCD in the center console and switch between the two. Video switching is easy, but I'm not sure how well the GPS and/or Magden would deal with switching the USB touch-screen inputs.

So basically, something like: Magden M.1b + Lilliput 7" touch-screen LCD + Garmin GVN-53. The Garmin unit doesn't take touch-screen input though, only remote-control input. Who makes a GPS module like that GVN-53 that does touch-screen on a remote LCD?

actually if you go to madgen's official website, they have video on how to hook up the computer to a factory navi in dash. not sure if you can do the same with a portable gps since i never owned one.

sometime down the road, i'm going to get at 7" at least lcd navi screen and put magden with it. thank god amplified carries madgen i'm going to see what they come up with.

wstar · 04-14-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by arcticreaver

actually if you go to madgen's official website, they have video on how to hook up the computer to a factory navi in dash. not sure if you can do the same with a portable gps since i never owned one.

sometime down the road, i'm going to get at 7" at least lcd navi screen and put magden with it. thank god amplified carries madgen i'm going to see what they come up with.

Yeah the issue is I don't see any GPS nav units out there that offer touch-screen outputs to whatever you've got hooked up for external video (like the magden). I need to do more digging on GPS mfgs.

arcticreaver · 04-14-2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wstar

Yeah the issue is I don't see any GPS nav units out there that offer touch-screen outputs to whatever you've got hooked up for external video (like the magden). I need to do more digging on GPS mfgs.

are you not going to do in dash navi?

wstar · 04-14-2009, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by arcticreaver

are you not going to do in dash navi?

What we're discussing is in-dash navi + magden.

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