I want to put in a dvd player and tv into my tls w/nav. What is the best dvd player and tv tuner to get? Do the tv channels come in clear or not? Show me some of your setups you have out there. I appreciate the help fellas.

 

slider:
Are you putting the TV's in the headrests? If so if you have a TLS you'll need new headrests...also you have navi. That means no TV in the dash, but you can splice the navi for a TV signal input. Look at the sticky at the top of the forum about that. I assume you want a standalone DVD player...not an in dash? There are plenty of brands out there...it depends on your price range, which you didn't specify...how much are you looking to spend?

Austin519

 

If you have a TL-S, you do NOT need new headrests

 

Dave@SE:
Then explain how you would mount an LCD screen in the A shaped hole in the headrest...and of course...make it look nice.

Austin519

 

I should have been more specific.... I want to do the tv through the nav with a stand alone dvd player. No tv's in the headrests. I'd spend a couple hundred on the dvd player, maybe 3-4 hundred unless there are ones that are good for cheaper. I went to the website nav-tv.com and they have small movies on there about there installations... There is one movie that shows the bmw nav system that has tv in it but the on screen menu allows you to access either the nav, tv, on board computer, or AC. Is this only on the bmw? I'm assuming it is.

 

Simple...Add a bottom to that 'A' and recover it with the LCD. We had to do something similar in my old car. Of course it looks nice... it was done by Ron@StreetEffectz

 

slider:
Yes, it's the BMW...our cars aren't equipped with 2 channels for the in dash screen...so you have to create a second channel with a switch and a composite->rgb converter. A Pyle standalone DVD player can be had for a few hundred. Although I usually don't lik ethe Pyle brand...it is only a DVD player...and as long as it works and has functions it doesn't matter that much IMHO.

Dave@SE:
Not sure what you mean by "recover it"...you mean re-cover? Although that is an option...it would look bad from the front no matter how you did it. and would require cutting into the headrest to make the filled in piece stay. And for the price of that, and the work, and the lack of good lucks, I'd just get a set of TL-P headrests, which will be cheaper, allow you to replace it with your TLS headrests when you want (bad part of town etc), and be able to return your car to factory condition.

Austin519

 

It looks good...when you know what you're doing.

 

Uh, I gotta agree with my brother here. We could do the TLS headrests with NO PROBLEM at all, and they would look PERFECT from front and back. We would fabricate a new inner piece, and still keep the triangular outter part of the headrest. It would look totally factory.

 

Streeteffectz:
And you can do it without there being a seam along the triangular piece or having to cut into the original A piece of the headrest at all? This I gotta see Ron...that is...if you ever ANSWER MY IM'S!!!

Austin519

 

The seams will match the factory seems. Of course we'd cut into the A piece...if you were installing in the TL-P headrests you'd have to cut into them too. Unless ofcourse you're going for tha I-have-a-tv-buldging-out-of-my-headrest look

 

Dave@SE:
Well what I mean is...you have to cut into the A piece to install the screen of course, but also the triangle shaped wedge to cover the hole up. By the time you match the vinyl exactly to the headrest, buy to material to make the triangle shaped piece, cut it, wrap it, and install it...you may as well have bought a set of TL-P headrests from a guy who got the TLS headrests for his TL-P, it'd cost about the same, save time...and best of all you don't have to go buy new headrests if you want to resell the car later...unless you're lucky enough to find someone who wants those screens.

Austin519

 

By the time you make arrangements to buy/trade your TL-S headrests for TL-P headrests, they would be finished. It's not really a time saver. I agree that it's slightly easier to do the screens in the TL-P headrests, but it's not a problem nor an issue either way.

 

Let me clarify....we would in NO WAY make a new headrest. All I would do is add a piece of foam to the MIDDLE part of the headrests, not change the factory piece, AT ALL. All this added piece would do is finish off the headrest to make it solid so we can recover it, that's it, nothing more, nothing less. All the seams would be factory matched.

 

Dave@SE:
You could've told me you were StreetEffectz's brother :P. And I still disagree with bot you and Ron, but well I don't doubt it can be done.

Austin519

 

While I have the key personell of Streeteffectz on this thread...How much would you charge to install the rgb converter, tv tuner, and stand alone dvd player to a tls w/nav?

 

RGB converter...is it already modified? And the DVD player, where and how would you want it mounted? Is it a portable, or trunk mountable player?

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