Windows 8 carpc video

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Originally Posted by bmw_car_pc

What all apps are you running?

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MULTIMEDIA 8 (very useful, allows you to control volume, set up playlists with both videos and music) favorite so far

MORE MAPS

ANGRY BIRDS (of course)

SKYPE

GOOGLE SEARCH

MAIL

PEOPLE

GPS COMPASS

YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER (music videos)

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Originally Posted by david69leonard

Thanks for the comments guys, I've been downloading and trying out different media apps all day now and I do have to say... I think Centrafuse and RR are a thing of the past for me! My CarPC has been brought back to life, Its quicker and way more responsive. Microsoft did a fantastic job on this one, two thumbs up from me!!!!!

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This is great to hear for me. I had played with RR but never quite got it where I wanted. This has reinvigorated me for my carpc project.

A few questions:

1) Any touch screen friendly offline GPS navigation software work well in "Metro"?
2) What are you doing for media controls and can they be run alongside the GPS app without having to switch windows?
3) I'm assuming that we'll receive some sort of touch/metro friendly Sirius/XM and various other tuner apps sometime?

Here's a question for you.
If you had the space to fit the lilliput 12.1 inch monitor without multi-touch in the mp3car store versus the 10.4 inch lilliput with the multi-touch capability, would you pick the larger screen size over the multi-touch functions or verse versa?
I am redoing my monitor install in my chevy avalanche and have enough space to fit a 12.1 inch monitor in there however I have not found one with a multi -touch display.
I am debating whether to go down to the smaller size or just go with the larger size and hope that eventually someone will make a multi-touch panel that size so I can just replace panels instead of redoing the whole dash.

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Originally Posted by Dluvr22

Here's a question for you.
If you had the space to fit the lilliput 12.1 inch monitor without multi-touch in the mp3car store versus the 10.4 inch lilliput with the multi-touch capability, would you pick the larger screen size over the multi-touch functions or verse versa?
I am redoing my monitor install in my chevy avalanche and have enough space to fit a 12.1 inch monitor in there however I have not found one with a multi -touch display.
I am debating whether to go down to the smaller size or just go with the larger size and hope that eventually someone will make a multi-touch panel that size so I can just replace panels instead of redoing the whole dash.

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Check out revo-sys.com, I saw them from another post on here, they have the best line up on monitor and capacitive touch I've seen.

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Originally Posted by Punky

Check out revo-sys.com, I saw them from another post on here, they have the best line up on monitor and capacitive touch I've seen.

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Thanks
Great site. However the pricing of their monitors are way out of my league.

yeah they are on the pricey side, but seems like very high quality monitor. i have inquired if their capacitive touch kit can be purchased seperately.

does win8 have any phone control via bluetooth?

i was planning centrafuse still as i feel phone integration/control is a huge "must have" for my needs ...

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Originally Posted by stokjeep

does win8 have any phone control via bluetooth?

i was planning centrafuse still as i feel phone integration/control is a huge "must have" for my needs ...

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Yeah, I would be interested in that also plus, with GPS navigation, I like RR because it automatically mutes my video/music and puts gps in the front when a turn is coming up. Can this be done in Win8 as a front end?

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Originally Posted by bambam

Yeah, I would be interested in that also plus, with GPS navigation, I like RR because it automatically mutes my video/music and puts gps in the front when a turn is coming up. Can this be done in Win8 as a front end?

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I would doubt that much of that is built in yet, but once Win8 is more popular that should be pretty easy to program.