Digital TV for Ford ICC

[Panda]

Tried but failed, ended up buying a I/R Tranceiver from Jaycar and putting in its place

Panda

[Headsex]

Tried but failed, ended up buying a I/R Tranceiver from Jaycar and putting in its place

Panda

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might have to pull icc out to see what TSOP it has.. and see if there is any interface circuitry inbetween which I doubt..

Danny.

[turbotrana]

any updates

[turbotrana]

I bought a HiTV pureII mobile digital receiver and double DIN deck with LCD screen and installed it in my work car. The digital reception it not too bad. I drove 30km from City Beach to Greenmount without one dropout except for the last few hundred meters of the trip seems to be a bad reception spot. I am looking at installing it in the BA but will need the Alpine thingo to utilise the AV output of the box.

The picture is perfect even at 120kph.

From my research

- a Digital set top box designed for the home is never going to work well whilst moving regardless of what antenna you get.

- the antenna you get with the HiTV does not work inside the car period. So putting an antenna in the back window is not the way to go.

-for DVB-T to work you need a dual diversity antenna system and complex circuitry and programming to get it to work in a mobile environment.

-it wont be too far away when we will have excellent TV coverage on things to mobile phones to any form of transport cause some dude has invented a device (small circuitry) that apparently has done away with the antenna altogether.

-There is also DVB-h that apparently is better for mobile reception and looks liked being addopted in mobile devices.

[ritzy]

I planning on installing a Carputer and will install a digital TV card instead might be something cool.

Also has anyone looked at these for antenna's.

Twin High-Diversity Clarion Window Film antenna's (for TV reception) are also available for the unit for an additional $60.00. (RRP - $249.00)

[gravelrash]

I have just read the 17 pages. WOW.

I want to put just a dvd player in my T without the TV setup. Is there some other way instead of SCART connector as it will be pretty hard to fins a compact dvd player with scart. Most seem to have RCA`s and S-Video outputs.

Can someone post me up a diagram of the wiring for RCA to 10pin plug. I can make up the cable no problems just getting a little confused with the audio inputs to the ICC.

[Moby58]

Think u may have to re-read the 17 pages. The ICC needs a RGB signal. RCA connector on DVD is a composite signal. You cannot just make a cable. The signal will need to be converted.

SCART is not a video standard, it is a plug style that MAY have several different video standards on it's various pins. IF a DVD player, or most other devices (other than PCs) have RGB output, it will usually be via the scart connector.

So, your choices are either. Find a DVD player with a scart connector, THEN find out whether that scart connect has a RGB output THEN find out if it can be set to NTSC. If answer YES to all 3, you should be able to make a scart-to-icc cable and connect for video.

The other choice is buy one of the converter boxes that a few of the sponsors sell. It will do the RGB output AND NTSC. You can then plug any dvd, xbox, etc into it.

Audio is a separate issue, and is very easy. By the aux input cable from Ford. (the newer one has less interference problems). It plugs into a connector behind the fuse box (only free connector that will match the cable). The other end has a standars 3.5mm stereo socket that mounts (if you like) to a tab at the back of, and under, the tissue holder.

You then use a 2xrca to stereo 3.5mm plug cable, and plug that between your DVD audio out and the aux input cable 3.5mm socket. Next, press the AM button on stereo a few times. It is the toggle switch between AM radio and AUX input.

[gravelrash]

yeah I realised the problem with the scart and rgb thing. I have since got over that one.

I already have the amplified aux type harness in my car and working with the mp3 player. its starting to sound too easy.

[Hyena]

I'm in the process of testing a similar set up but I can't get any video on the ICC. Is switching to the RGB aux in the same as for audio (ie the AM button ?) I don't have aux audio set up yet (working on the hard part first) but I've pressed the AM button several times and get nothing. I'm using the same wiring/plug set up as cutsnake.

Hopefully I've just missed something simple...

[Moby58]

I'm in the process of testing a similar set up but I can't get any video on the ICC. Is switching to the RGB aux in the same as for audio (ie the AM button ?) I don't have aux audio set up yet (working on the hard part first) but I've pressed the AM button several times and get nothing. I'm using the same wiring/plug set up as cutsnake.

Hopefully I've just missed something simple...

OK, think you need to re-read the articles. There are 2 inputs to the ICC. One is for video, and one is for audio. The audio goes in the AUX connector, and the AM button switches between AM and AUX. If you dont have the AUX cable instaled, then it cant switch to AUX when you press the AM button:)

The video connects in thru the Sat Nav socket at the back of the ICC, just above the tissue box. You will see there is a switch that needs to be added to the harness you make up, and the switch toggles between normal display, and display from the the Sat Nav input.

If you dont get a picture, then you dont have the switch, or the other wiring is wrong.

And I am still after a good antenna to feed into the Teac box. Have resurected it and have in my new Fairmont Ghia.