Another stupid question from me!

[drbru]

Away from the car at the moment so cant actually try this out for myself.

Can the DVD based sat nav system actually play DVDs???

Cheers

[RS04OUR]

No

[MoRS6+]

I knew already that the RNS-E doesn't play DVDs, but I'm keen to know why Audi didn't provide this function. It would have been a brilliant bonus if they did, that's for sure. I wonder if money was the reason - like having to pay royalties (or whatever it is) like when they decided to drop the full 7-digit postcode because that cost too much to them..

[PetrolDave]

I knew already that the RNS-E doesn't play DVDs, but I'm keen to know why Audi didn't provide this function.

1) Cost. They would have had to include extra circuitry to decode the digital AV stream from the DVD and they decided that since they were designing a sat nav system they wouldn't add the cost.

2) Safety. Providing a system that plays DVDs on a screen visible to the driver has legal implications in the result of an accident - implications that Audi wanted to avoid.

[oscawhite]

... you still here Dave - thought you might be taking a break

[MoRS6+]

I knew already that the RNS-E doesn't play DVDs, but I'm keen to know why Audi didn't provide this function.

1) Cost. They would have had to include extra circuitry to decode the digital AV stream from the DVD and they decided that since they were designing a sat nav system they wouldn't add the cost.

That I can believe (if the postcode farce is anything to go by)..

2) Safety. Providing a system that plays DVDs on a screen visible to the driver has legal implications in the result of an accident - implications that Audi wanted to avoid.

I guess they could have still implemented TVIM (or rather DVDIM) but since it can't play DVDs in the first place, is a distant fastasy!