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#236461 - 04/10/2004 15:52 Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ?
belezeebub addict Registered: 11/01/2001 Posts: 579	I just love beating a dead horse (when they are dead they don't fight back) with all new advances since the empeg was created has anyone given any though to replacing the VFD with a color lcd touch screen or color lcd (digikey seems to have a ton of them listed http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Criteria?Ref=16047&Site=US&Cat=31851328) I am currently selling my Empeg but if a Color one came out with a touch screen or even just color and it was cheaper then the 2500 or so I am spending for a IVA-300, Ipod adapter and 40 G ipod I would jump at it) Empeg Lighted buttons Color Screen updated Sound card and 100 gig sounds pretty sweet to me. _________________________ ______________________________________ Do not meddle in the affairs of Network Administrators, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ______________________________________ Worlds Lamest Wb Site (mine) http://home.comcast.net/~jlipchitz/
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#236462 - 04/10/2004 17:14 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: belezeebub]
siberia37 old hand Registered: 09/01/2002 Posts: 702 Loc: Tacoma,WA	You could get a Hauppage MediaMVP (little video player box) hook it up to the a LCD and to the Empeg's ethernet port and use it to play videos you have on your empeg. That's the only practical way to use a color screen with the empeg right now. Unless you are a EE genius that is...
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#236463 - 04/10/2004 18:23 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: siberia37]
belezeebub addict Registered: 11/01/2001 Posts: 579	Quote: . Unless you are a EE genius that is... Well I am not an EE Genius now if you need someone to config a firewall or a router to allow arp packeds from north yimen then I am your geek. I can go pick up a touch screen radio for 500 bucks it can't be that spendy anymore to make them. (I remember there is onyl Color Empeg it was a special project and cost a TON of Cash) surely the Empeg 3 has to be under production in some secret area and they are just teasting us about not making it. _________________________ ______________________________________ Do not meddle in the affairs of Network Administrators, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ______________________________________ Worlds Lamest Wb Site (mine) http://home.comcast.net/~jlipchitz/
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#236464 - 04/10/2004 18:28 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: belezeebub]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Quote: surely the Empeg 3 has to be under production in some secret area and they are just teasting us about not making it. Yes, it's in production in a secret area. This guy mentions it half way down the page here. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#236465 - 04/10/2004 18:40 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: tfabris]
belezeebub addict Registered: 11/01/2001 Posts: 579	I scanned the page I saw a few items but no car player that I would consider a Empeg 3. Quote: Quote: surely the Empeg 3 has to be under production in some secret area and they are just teasting us about not making it. Yes, it's in production in a secret area. This guy mentions it half way down the page here. _________________________ ______________________________________ Do not meddle in the affairs of Network Administrators, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ______________________________________ Worlds Lamest Wb Site (mine) http://home.comcast.net/~jlipchitz/
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#236466 - 04/10/2004 18:41 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: belezeebub]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	My point being, that everything they are developing now is in the portables market. Because the market for new car players is zilch. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#236467 - 04/10/2004 19:08 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen carpal tunnel Registered: 19/01/2002 Posts: 3584 Loc: Columbus, OH	A good company with a little luck and some spiffy advertising can create a market. We all know the portable mp3 market existed before IPod, but Apple brought it mainstream. I'm convinced a good company with a good product could do the same for an automotive player (even if it's merely a portable that installs in-dash). The bigger problem is that the auto manufacturers are making it much harder to integrate after-market audio into the dash these days. _________________________ ~ John
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#236468 - 04/10/2004 19:24 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Quote: I'm convinced a good company with a good product could do the same for an automotive player (even if it's merely a portable that installs in-dash). A few have tried, including Sony and Pioneer, if I recall correctly. If anyone can do it, they can, but I don't see in-dash hard disk players being any more popular than the Empeg was yet. Quote: The bigger problem is that the auto manufacturers are making it much harder to integrate after-market audio into the dash these days. And that's the real problem, isn't it? _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#236469 - 04/10/2004 19:47 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen carpal tunnel Registered: 19/01/2002 Posts: 3584 Loc: Columbus, OH	Quote: A few have tried, including Sony and Pioneer Hence the "good product" caveat. _________________________ ~ John
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#236470 - 04/10/2004 19:49 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	_________________________ Tony Fabris
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#236471 - 04/10/2004 21:34 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: JBjorgen]
FireFox31 pooh-bah Registered: 19/09/2002 Posts: 2494 Loc: East Coast, USA	Not to nit pick, but: Quote: We all know the portable mp3 market existed before IPod, but Apple brought it mainstream. I seemed to notice everyone I knew had flash-based Rios for years and years; even people who barely knew what MP3 was. But if you ment "hdd based portable mp3 market", then yes, that was known only to the geek elite before iPod. ::sigh:: I'm still so sad that when I talk to the unlearn'ed, I can't identify the Karma (etc) without saying, "Yeah, it's like an iPod." _________________________ - FireFox31 110gig MKIIa (30+80), Eutronix lights, 32 meg stacked RAM, Filener orange gel lens, Greenlights Lit Buttons green set
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#236472 - 07/10/2004 04:31 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: FireFox31]
RobotCaleb pooh-bah Registered: 15/01/2002 Posts: 1866 Loc: Austin	Quote: Not to nit pick, but: nitpick*
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#236473 - 08/10/2004 18:27 Re: Color LCD replacment screen touch screen ? [Re: RobotCaleb]
Skunk Master Boot Logo(er) Registered: 26/08/2003 Posts: 525 Loc: California	I still have my Rio PMP300. I was my very first portable MP3 player. I would use it almost always in the car, directly connected to my amps. I recently brought it back out from storage to use the flash card for one of my digital cameras. I was curious as to whether it still worked or not. Fired it up and played fine despite the damaged LCD display. _________________________ aka: [color:"blue"]Boot Logo Master[/color] PayPal Contributions for Custom Boot Logos are gladly accepted. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> itirado[@]adobe[.]com
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