AUtigers350z

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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!

DouBLeJ16

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.

DouBLeJ16

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.

AUtigers350z

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So the concern would be with the console messing up?

AUtigers350z

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

cehome

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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.

AUtigers350z

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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?

DouBLeJ16

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.

compitaveggie

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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

guestz

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where can you get your 360 modified?

DouBLeJ16

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.

boogy886

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Yea...details please