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I had a Dension unit in my A8 - not bad at all. Effectively, you create playlists (as long as you like, so multiple CDs per playlist - my favourite was a playlist of my favourite track from each Cd on the iPod!) to replace the 6 CDs and then it plays each playlist as if it were a CD - controls and display exactly as the CD autochanger. No track info other that 'CD 2 Track27' for example, but it does charge the iPod. I just bought an old iPod off my kids and left it as a permanenet fixture in the car (below the centre armrest)
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Thank you both
The thing that confuses me about all of this is do I need to buy one of these Denision or Dice control modules? If I connected directly into the tuner via an apple composite lead and extension - would I not get playback that way? Appreciate that I will lose control via the head unit and not have the CD info (although RNSD doesn't support CD text anyway). My train of thought was do above with a Dice cradle to charge the unit without the"control box" thingy. Is this too simple? Am I missing something?
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OK..
You could get one of the sync&tv-out cables for the ipod and just connect it to a USB charger for the car and run the tv-out cables to the RNS, but you'd need to control it from the iPod.. the Dension lets you control the ipod from the RNS.
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Looks like the module is needed then to control the ipod from the head unit
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I have one of these tuners, which obviously no longer tunes in to anything, but I would like to add a DVB-T tuner to the Aux inputs, and as noted in a separate rather rambling thread I've tested this works "in principle". http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4687 I did ask there about the aerials and whilst I did get a "discouraging" reply I wondered if anyone does know a definitive answer. I presume the TV aerials (4 small plugs) are hidden away somewhere, but I have 2 questions (for my PF S8): Where actually are the aerials? Are they powered (voltage?) or passive? Basically wondering if there's a way I can reuse them rather than fitting a new one somewhere.
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The tv aerials run along the bottom of the rear screen in most later cars and I believe in the rear bumpers in very early cars
If you do a search on the forum for my thread that mentions phantom aeriels there is a guy in Edinburgh that does adapter cables so you can still use the oem diversity aerials and take the feed into whatever equipment you need to
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Ah right, I have that link "saved" (it was parkmyauto.co.uk) but had misunderstood what it was, just reread in detail.
I'll get in touch with them ASAP. Edit: Just sent them an email explaining what I want to do and asking a few questions. I'll report on detailed progress back in my own thread to avoid "polluting" this one. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4687
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