Yeah what Rossi said

 

IPOD, XM and Air Conditioning upgrade....who'd have thunk it...sweet!

when can i send you my money?

 

I'm very interested in the iPod adapter! I do have a couple of questions I was wondering if you could answer...

What exactly is displayed on the LCD? Artist and song name? Playlists?

Will the display scroll if there are more than 12 characters?

Will it support playlists (via disk up and down buttons) like some of the other adapters out there?

Thanks!

 

I thought for a minute you were talking about the Navigation LCD screen. Don't you call the display where the text/radio/temp information is shown...the LED display screen?

Since you're on the topic of the LED display...did you guys ever manage to figure out how to customize the "MAZDA RX-8" welcome message so that it could be changed to display something else? I thought I remember a post by thew a couple years back where he mentioned he was working on that.

 

I believe, technically, the radio/AC display is a liquid crystal display (LCD) and are not light emitting diodes (LED).

 

in theory it could still be done but would require sending in the HU core everytime a personalization was to occur (reflash firmware)...so it wasn't worth it

 

Not that this anything to do with this thread...but LCD is Liquid Crystal display. They don't put out light on their own, like the Grey screens on old IPODS or the color screens on new IPods. They have to be back lit. LED is Light Emitting Diode, like the power LED or your alarm clock at home. SO the NAV is a back Lit LCD and the Radio display is a LED.

 

I'm interested. Cost?

 

And if you enter in "5318008" on a calculator and then turn it upside down, it spells "boobies". Wait, what were we talking about again?

 

sweet. wait your are right. calculators aren't backlit....but wait try to read them in the dark....lol

 

"Now imagine having a bunch of those lined up to make the numbers on your clock...its not effecient in its design."

Actually, a properly designed LED display will be MORE efficient than any equally engineered LCD(assuming it requires illumination).

In the LCD, a backlight has to be illuminated at all times, and the LCD matrix simply redirects the light either to your eyes, or into the back(and other directions) of the display. This light is wasted, and often contributes to the poor black level and contrast issues associated with LCD.

In the LED, each element is emmissive, thus only emit the light that ends up in your eyes(yes, some is wasted and goes backwards too).

At this point, LED's are being used in more an more situations, it's really the ability to manucature them cost effectively(LCD is mad cheap) that is keeping them out of your consumer products, not efficiency.

Soon LED's will compose your cell phone, watch and computer monitor...and EVERY application of these LED's will use significantly less power than the LCD's of the moment.

*edit* not being a smartass, just dropping some science(what little i have)

*edit 2* Of course the backlight is the big detractor in an LCD! Any LCD uses less power than an LED of comparable stats. It's the radical innefficiency(remember all that wasted light) of required back lighting that maked LCD's less efficient. Look at the stats of some of the larger LCD displays on the market...they're pretty terrible! My sony 46" uses as much as the 24" crt it replaced!

 

So what was the original topic again?

 

There already IS a Sirius adapter from Mazda, isn't there?

And me no likey Sirius, I'm more interested in XM.

 

if you want sirius check ebay. saw a HU for 100 that was 05+ (sat ready)

 

Fancy that! I was not aware. Is that because the HU itself won't control the adapter and display info on the screen?

 

...LECD-TF-IPOD...falls out of chair.

So as asked earlier - Ipod only? or possible with other mp3 players (creative Zen Touch)???

 

right on

 

When can we expect this thing?