Forget having to put bulky, expensive, and complicated video gear and current-hogging power inverters into your vehicle, there are a wide variety of easily installed mobile video products that will fit your needs, no matter what your budget and level of technical expertise.

Advantages of having an video system to your vehicle:

• Adding video to your vehicle’s audio system is something every member of the family will appreciate. Some of the applications of in-car are obvious:


• A backseat video system can keep youngsters happily occupied on family road trips, or even when you have errands around town.


• Teens like to park their video equipped vehicles and out on their friends. People love the entertainment value of being able to view movies, watch television programs, or play video games wherever they drive.


• You can connect a TV antenna to your monitor and you’ll be able to keep up with weather reports and the news while you are camping off-road or driving cross-country.


• Business people can follow current business news while on the road, and make sophisticated video presentations from the vehicle.

Setting up a video system

• You will need three different components to watch video in your vehicle:


• A source such as a DVD player, VCR, video cassette player (VCP), TV tuner, video game, or anything else that will provide an audio/video signal to your system.


• Something that will display the video information, such as a built in monitor, a portable television, laptop computer screen, or anything else that will allow you to watch the video signal.


• An in-dash receiver, amplifier/speaker system, surround processor, headphones, or a TV monitor with a built in speaker, so that you can hear the audio sound track.

Mobile video systems can range from portable VCP-monitors combos, to sophisticated set-ups that feature cinema quality 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound and multiple monitors. The amount you spend on a mobile video system depends on the features you want and the configuration that best fits in your vehicle, and your budget.