joihan777 Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 (edited) Howdy Ford, Got an idea for your factory radios. Utilize swappable hard drives! Design your "entertainment units" to store and play mp3 music files and avi video files. The hard drives can also hold gps/nav data. That way daddy (me) can stuff 2000-4000 songs plus 10-20 kiddie movies for the long drives. That way I don't have to lug around a bunch of DVDs or CDs. A simple USB connection would suffice for in/output. Utilize a remote socket for separate rear seat control. Don't forget the bells & whistles like iPOD control, EQ, RDS, and steering wheel controls. AM/FM/CD/DVD/GPS/HD. The technology is there, just no one has packaged it. Be the first and wow the crowd. People are paying for the Shaker systems, I think they'll pay for a *complete* entertainment package. This, I believe, would be fantastic in the upcoming Flex. It can then be implemented in any model of FoMoCo. Edited May 13, 2007 by joihan777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Howdy Ford, Got an idea for your factory radios. Utilize swappable hard drives! Design your "entertainment units" to store and play mp3 music files and avi video files. The hard drives can also hold gps/nav data. That way daddy (me) can stuff 2000-4000 songs plus 10-20 kiddie movies for the long drives. That way I don't have to lug around a bunch of DVDs or CDs. A simple USB connection would suffice for in/output. Utilize a remote socket for separate rear seat control. Don't forget the bells & whistles like iPOD control, EQ, RDS, and steering wheel controls. AM/FM/CD/DVD/GPS/HD. The technology is there, just no one has packaged it. Be the first and wow the crowd. People are paying for the Shaker systems, I think they'll pay for a *complete* entertainment package. This, I believe, would be fantastic in the upcoming Flex. It can then be implemented in any model of FoMoCo. Does the word Sync ring a bell? http://www.syncmyride.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joihan777 Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 Does the word Sync ring a bell? http://www.syncmyride.com Close but no cigar. Sync can't play movies. For me it'd be no better than plugging in my mp3 player. I was hoping Ford would consider a complete entertainment system, including .avi video, so I can play divx/ avi movies without my DVD's leaving the safety of my den. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickF1011 Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Generally speaking, hard drives are horrible for portability. They are finnicky and prone to damage/data loss with the slightest of jostling around. How Apple has managed to get around this with iPods thus far is surprising. This type of swappable data handling isn't going to come into high use until high capacity flash memory gets into more widespread usage in my opinion. It's not that far off though. A few companies are selling 80 GB flash memory drives now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Close but no cigar. Sync can't play movies. For me it'd be no better than plugging in my mp3 player.I was hoping Ford would consider a complete entertainment system, including .avi video, so I can play divx/ avi movies without my DVD's leaving the safety of my den. But it certainly has the capability to do that in the near future. It's basically an on-board PC so adding other features should be easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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