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Our guide for upgrading your car with high-end audio, video, GPS and more
February 1, 2005
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RaySat Roof-Mounted Satellite TV Antenna
The best of satellite TV, in your vehicle |
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WHAT ELSE IS THERE?
There are extremes, and there are extremes:
CAMERAS: If you've already got a video monitor in the front seat, why not connect a back-up camera to your bumper, so that every time you put your car in reverse, you're automatically shown what's happening to the rear?
REMOTE-START: Bill Ali, who directs Best Buy's car-installation training program, says that the company, based in often-icy Minnesota, has plenty of experience selling and installing remote-start kits for cars. You push a button and the car starts up so that when you hop in, the heater's blasting away. The difficulty, says Ali, is in bypassing key-lock restrictions without compromising newer cars' advanced security systems.
Ali says that the company has to meet other, more eccentric customer demands, too. How about a motion sensor for your convertible? Or a keyring controller that lets you, on a hot day, roll down your car's windows or open its sunroof from 50 feet away?
SATELLITE TV: A few companies, including RaySat and KVH, have mastered the art of receiving satellite TV while moving—more difficult than you might imagine. That's only half of it though—you still have to couple one of their fancy antennae with a receiver from a satellite TV provider.
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