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Encyclopedia > In car entertainment

In Car Entertainment, commonly referred to as ICE is a collection of hardware devices installed into your car, or other form of transportation, to provide you with Audio and/or Audio/Visual entertainment. This includes playing media such as CD, DVD, Freeview/TV, USB and an optional surround system . Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that In car entertainment be merged into this article or section. ... Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology. ... Sound recorder redirects here. ... Freeviews retro logo Freeview is a brand name, owned by DTV Services Ltd. ... Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ... Surround sound is the concept of expanding the spatial imaging of audio playback from 1 dimension (mono/Left-Right) to 2D or 3D. This is often performed for a more realistic audio environment, actively implemented in cinema sound systems, technical theatre, home entertainment, video arcades, computer gaming, and a growing...


Also ever increasingly common in ICE installs are the incorporation of video game consoles into the vehicle. Four different video game consoles from different generations. ...


In Car Entertainment systems have recently come into the limelight through TV shows such as MTV's Pimp My Ride. In Car Entertainment has been made available to the masses due to reduced costs of devices such as screen/monitors, and the reducing cost to the consumer of the converging media playable technologies. Single hardware units are capable of playing CD, MP3, WMA, DVD. Pimp My Ride is a TV show produced by MTV. Each episode consists of taking one car in poor condition and restoring it, as well as customizing it. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... A portable MP3 player MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding, lossy compression format, and algorithm, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio... WMA can refer to: Windows Media Audio World Medical Association William Morris Agency This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...


Through Infrared headphones families now can enjoy long journeys where the children can play games and/or watch DVD's in the back of the car, front passengers too. All this whilst the driver can listen to traditional sounds - radio, CD, MP3.


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CanadianDriver: - Auto Product Review - In-car entertainment systems (1069 words)
Jury-rigging your home unit in the car is not a practical option.
You're really integrated when you ditch your car's existing stereo unit and replace it with a full-function, custom-installed, "multimedia station." With this you can insert the DVD into an in-dash player, play MP3 audio, or manage a DVD changer and other audio-visual functions from controls on the dash.
Car manufacturers are not unaware of the interest generated by in-car entertainment systems.
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