If anybody has any DVD video solutions added or planned for their RDX I'd love to hear what you've come up with. I'd like to add video capability, but not sure the best way to do it and have it look good. The ideal solution would be to have the video show up on the nav screen, but still retain ALL of its normal functions. Another would be to have a sunshade screen on the passenger sunshade. Can't think of anywhere else to have a screen and have it look good.

 

Actually, I am more interested in being able to take advantage of the sound system with ext DVD player. I am wondering what will happen if I purchase a DVD player with 5.1 surround sound output jack. Does any one have any idea? I saw at least one vendor with 5.1 output capability but how does RDX aux handle this.....

 

what i was thinking was get a plug and play module and plug it into the headunit... and sacrafice the XM radio, this would allow you to switch between the navi and tv video visuals... then put a dvd player in the center counsel and whenever used plug it into the aux jack we have... and maybe 2 headrest monitors...

 

Although I mechanically/electronically inclined, I am hesitant to mess with original setup..

 

That would be nice to be able to pump it through a sound system like that, but the AUX jack isn't going to decode the 5.1 surround sound. There would have to be an input on the back of the head unit for it to work that way. I know there is no standard input for it, and I doubt that there are any leads for it on the wiring harness. So basically you'd have to add your own 5.1 decoder and rewire the speakers which would be a mess. there is plenty of room underneath the nav DVD drive though...

 

I would recommend you guys check out the TL forum and search for Dom's tvnav2go. It is a box that connects inline with the navigation DVD-ROM to allow an additional video input. A lot of TL people have one including myself. It allows any video source to be viewed on the navigation screen. You just have to figure out how to route the audio into the stereo.

 

Nice! Thanks for the tip!

 

yea i had that in my tsx too... i was foolish to sell it when i traded the car, but then again, i want to get the plug and play this time and not cut all the wires...

 

Hey....i've called tvnav2go... they said they have it for the RDX but they just want to know what is the pin in the back of our Navi-DVD.... Cuz for a PNP unit.... they it need to be 20 wire harness......

and the question is, are our harness a 20pin???......... if so then most likely i'm going to get the unit.....they quote me $250........

 

It is the same harness as all the other newer hondas....

 

and is that the 20 or 14 pin harness? i would like to do this too

 

so do u know where to connect it? would we have to sacrafice XM or something? and do u know how to take the head unit out?

 

Its connected in the back of the DVD-Player (on the passanager side)....

Can anyone be sure that its a 20 pin harness??....... or would it be a new 1????..... who knows??

 

wanst ther someone who tried this on the rdx and the LCD resolution was pretty crappy ?

 

theres a dvd player on the passanger side? hmm interesting....

 

i dont remember reading about that ... but i mean if the conversion on my tsx was perfect resolution, i could only imagine the RDX to be better... who knows though

 

yeah just a day or two ago, there was a tread with a guy that did it on the Nav lcd and complained that the quality convinced him to stop using the the LCD for video....

 

oh wow really? i gotta look that up

Edit: ... searched and cant find it... was it it's own thread or was it just a comment in another thread? can u link me?

 

yeah that was me that tried it, and the screen resoultion wasn't very good. the screen's resolution is 480x234. I played the DVD that came with the RDX on there, and it didn't look very good at all. I also hooked a computer up to it, and had a hard time reading any text on the screen because the resolution was so low. Thats what made me disconnect it and go another route.

But if you want to try it, maybe you'll be OK with the resolution. You definitely CAN watch DVD video on the screen if you want to. Just don't expect DVD quality video.

It plugs in from the DRIVERS side, and it is the GNET_RGB_HONDAACURA20.

If anyone wants to buy one that was used for about an hour, I'm not planning on using mine anymore.....

 

where did u get it from? how much and is it for the rdx especially or like all acuras n stuff?

 

maybe it was some issue with the dvd player? When you connected the computer, did you adjust the resolution on your video cards output so it would match the RDX LCD? Could honda cheapened out and put a lower spec LCD in the RDX? Id imagine it would be the same for all hondas.

 

How do you match 480 x 234? I've never seen a computer that could match that unless it was a PocketPC....

 

i know my nvidia on my laptop will let me output to a custom resolution, never tried that low, but i do it for my plasma...