My Alpine DVA-9861, LCD screen & TV tuner should be here this weekend. I was thinking of a few different ways to install all of this so I would be able to watch DVDs via the head unit, TV & play xbox so I came up with this diagram..

http://liquidsolace.com/misc/soundsysteminstall.jpg

Hope you guys can follow everything

I bought the RCA Input switch from wal mart for ~ $25. Maybe this will help someone!

 

I have almost the same exact setup I'm putting in my Z over the weekend.

The only question I had was, where are you going to put your antenna's for the TV tuner? On my old car I had them in the rear-side windows (they were alot larger then the rear-side windows on the Z).. I don't think I can put them on the hatch either because the wire will have to move everytime the hatch opens and closes.

The only other thing I could think of doing is buying one of those really small TV antennas for $150 and mounting that on the rear-side window.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure that microsoft does not recommend to have games playing when the car is moving. On long trips this would really bum out the passenger.

I have a regular xbox that I'll be putting in because of this.

 

So the concern would be with the console messing up?

 

How big are the antennas? With the Alpine TUE-T151 the actual antennas look to be roughly the size of an XM antenna.

 

Specifically the disc may get scratched with the vibration of a moving car. Xbox 360 is known to scratch discs if you move the console while playing. A scratched disc will result in the game freezing. I'm speaking from personal experience. Alot of other owners have experienced the samething when moving the unit while it's on.

 

Interesting..

I wonder if there is a way I could make a TempurPedic stand for my Xbox in my Z

So the original Xbox doesn't do this?

 

The original xbox doesn't do it. I had it in my old car for over 2 years and it never scratched any discs, always played fine while moving.

 

If you want to be extra careful you should get your xbox 360 modded for about $50 and buy burned games for only $10. Thats what i did for the xbox 360 in my car, liked it so much i modded the xbox 360 in house. Now i have 22 games that cost me $220 versus four original games that cost me $260. Go to craigslist.com

 

where can you get your 360 modified?

 

With the clarion Z-net TV tuner you don't get any antennas with it, you have to buy them seperately.. There is a small one you can get but it's $150-200.

The one's I bought were really cheap (about $22 to be exact). There is 2 of them, one each is about 8-10" long.. Very thin though, it almost looks like a wire. Reception was awesome with them in my old car.. I got all 6-7 local channels going 70-80mph. I had 1 in each rear window, this was on top of 5% tint so you couldn't see them at all from the outside.

Does apline sell that antenna seperately? It sounds like it would work well on the Z.

 

Yea...details please