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Alpine Showcases IPod-Like Multimedia Systems For GM, BMW, Mercedes
Detroit, 10:13 AM
Thu Dec 3
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01/13/09
My only complaint about the G8 was the total absence of gadgetry. It's a beautiful huge LCD display that plays, uh, the radio? A CD? I hear they have XM now, finally... they didn't at first. Still no SatNav, though. Maybe this is an indicator of the direction GM is moving, and letting Alpine take over its in-car entertainment system. That would be fantastic.
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just think....as if the accident rate in our nation isn't high enough...
Officer: Sir, how did you not see the boy on the bicycle
Elderly Man: Officer! I was looking at the left side of my windshield, my grandson put on the damned rap music again and I couldn't figure out how to put john mellencamp back on!
01/13/09
Shit.
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Buick ftw.
01/13/09
Alpine a few years ago came out with the iDA series that was supposed to replace 6-disc CD changers, hard drives, etc. with a fairly simple head unit that would have a full speed connection to an iPod. Their market research showed that most people were storing their music on iPods and other MP3 players and the weight of the CD changer, etc. could be eliminated. Weight requires energy.
It seems the carmakers, in their infinite wisdom, did not agree.
Seriously, who sits there and downloads their music collection onto a hard drive in a car?
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You can see the kid's tears as you run him over?
Flash is the future. Everything just needs a couple of SD/CF slots and a token amount of internal memory...save the internal space for other stuff. You don't need hard drives in there.
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