Hi there, I have just bought a 350Z JDM, I wanted a car with built in SAT-NAV, only to find out its no good over here?
There must be a tech solution to this... And it will all be down to the DVD region thing, no?
I mean, the SAT-NAV itself, all SAT-NAV works the same, they pick up the satelites, be it a Garmin or whatever, it will work in any country, im sure the JDM SAT-NAV dosnt realise its outside Japan and refuses to work...
The maps you use come on a disc, the disc will be region coded, is it more likely that the DVD player's firmware is scripted in Japanese and looks for a Japanese region code?
I know it dosnt help me just now but... If my nice new disc bought from Nissan at a couple of hundred quid could be region coded as Japanese then at least it would work, I would just need to figure out the script...
As for playing DVD's there must be a source for buying Japanese DVD's for the english speaking population, there are after all lots of westerners that work / do business over there... I know, a lot of trouble for a small feature of the car...
TV? Why wont this work? Isnt TV just sent over the airwaves and picked up by tuning in to the correct bandwidth? I'm lost...
Anyway, Hi all, I stand ready to be shot at but regardless look forward to many a good time with my Z...
My last car was an MG TF 135 which was modified for track use by Dreadnought (BTCC) and had seen tracktime at both Knockhill and Nurburgring, unfortunatly some prat pulled out of a junction on an A road and almost killed my wife but did kill the car (yes I almost killed him), I loved the TF but the accident gave me the perfect excuse to move on, something I wasnt going to do as long as I had the TF, it was a seriously fun car...
Anyway, hope someone with the technical know how can see where I'm coming from and shed some light...
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Hi there, I have just bought a 350Z JDM, I wanted a car with built in SAT-NAV, only to find out its no good over here?
There must be a tech solution to this... And it will all be down to the DVD region thing, no?
I mean, the SAT-NAV itself, all SAT-NAV works the same, they pick up the satelites, be it a Garmin or whatever, it will work in any country, im sure the JDM SAT-NAV dosnt realise its outside Japan and refuses to work...
The maps you use come on a disc, the disc will be region coded, is it more likely that the DVD player's firmware is scripted in Japanese and looks for a Japanese region code?
I know it dosnt help me just now but... If my nice new disc bought from Nissan at a couple of hundred quid could be region coded as Japanese then at least it would work, I would just need to figure out the script...
As for playing DVD's there must be a source for buying Japanese DVD's for the english speaking population, there are after all lots of westerners that work / do business over there... I know, a lot of trouble for a small feature of the car...
TV? Why wont this work? Isnt TV just sent over the airwaves and picked up by tuning in to the correct bandwidth? I'm lost...
Anyway, Hi all, I stand ready to be shot at but regardless look forward to many a good time with my Z...
My last car was an MG TF 135 which was modified for track use by Dreadnought (BTCC) and had seen tracktime at both Knockhill and Nurburgring, unfortunatly some prat pulled out of a junction on an A road and almost killed my wife but did kill the car (yes I almost killed him), I loved the TF but the accident gave me the perfect excuse to move on, something I wasnt going to do as long as I had the TF, it was a seriously fun car...
Anyway, hope someone with the technical know how can see where I'm coming from and shed some light...
Cheers...