Alpine tme-m740bt

kitt351 · 07-29-2007, 06:35 PM

I am interested in this monitor but can't find much on the inputs for the monitor. If anyone has this monitor or has any pics of the brain for this unit please post them. I am wanting to put this in my car but want to know all of the hook ups that it has. Any help from anyone is greatly appreciated.

DarquePervert · 07-29-2007, 07:10 PM

I pulled this tidbit of information from the product listing at Alpine's website. I believe the lines in bold tell you what you need to know.

FEATURES

* • 7" WVGA Touch Screen Monitor
* • 1.15 million pixels
* • RGB 800x480, 16:9
* • Built-in Bluetooth module
* • Streaming Audio ready (requires Ai-NET to RCA)
* • 2DIN mounting bracket for in-dash installation included
* • 1 A/V input
* • 1 A/V output
* • Dedicated camera input with reverse sensor
* • Provision for external Bluetooth microphone

kitt351 · 07-30-2007, 06:48 PM

Yeah I saw that on the website as well. Only thing is that it says that it is a 7" WVGA touch screen so does it have a vga hookup? Also it says the RGB hookup is 800x480. Then there is the 1 AV input and the dedicated hookup for camera. I am just wanting to know what hookups that is has? I have looked around the alpine website and searched on here, the12volt.com, yahoo, google and cant really find anything about it. No manual for it online or too much on more specs of the monitor. So any help from anyone is greatly appreciated.

turbocad6 · 08-01-2007, 03:18 PM

call alpine, there great & helpful on the phone, # on website under contact

nuzman · 08-03-2007, 06:14 PM

I'm with you, I found the Alpine webiste was missing some pretty important information on this particular screen. I finally just bought one a few days ago. There is no external brain box. Everything plugs into a wiring harness that, in turn, plugs into the back of the screen. It's a neat little unit but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Let me know if you need any info and I'll see if I can help out.

turbocad6 · 08-05-2007, 01:15 PM

alpines better screens like the iva d900/901's & there tme f1 status display headunit screen are 800x480, but there is no way to interface to this & input a 800X480 computer signal to it, I bought a d900 specificly to try & interface to it, but after taking it apart & analyzing it, it just isn't practical to do this really, alpine has no interest in a pc monitor really, & the only time alpine will design there screen to use a pc will be when alpine makes there own carpc... even then, knowing alpine, they will probably use there own propritary interface anyway... I think well see this in a few more years... I'd expect to see the likes of pioneer, eclipse, kenwood & other brands go this way first though, & that hasn't even happened yet..., it will eventually, but not yet...

if you happen to open up this screen, I'd be interested to know what lcd there using in it, if they ever decided to use an lvds interface then it could be hacked relatively easy, but up until now there not using lvds or ttl interfaces at all...

kitt351 · 08-06-2007, 06:48 PM

Hey Nuzman. What all kinds of inputs are on the wire harness? If you could let me know all the inputs and what kind they are on the wire harness would help a lot and a pic of it would help even more. This will help me out a lot. I already have a screen in the car that has a vga hookup but the picture quality isn't the best but it works. If this doesnt have a vga hookup i could use it as my other monitor for my dvd player and cameras. Thanks

ss60 · 08-20-2007, 10:06 PM

I have one of these in my car, here are the actual connectors:

Inputs
1x Alpine NAV connector
1x Reverse cam (composite video/RCA)
1x Aux Video in (composite video/RCA)
2x Audio jacks (RCA red/white - left and right channel)

Outputs
1x Aux Video out (composite video/RCA)
2x Audio jacks (RCA red/white - left and right channel)

panayiotis · 09-21-2007, 02:30 AM

Here is the manual:
http://www.alpine-europe.com/index.p...rch=TME-M740BT

Buzz · 05-06-2008, 10:38 AM

Hi guys! Awesome site!

If anyone's still interested, I have reverse engineered the Alpine TME-M740BT. The cable contains analog RGB coax cables (.7V P-P) and a TTL (5V) Composite Sync cable. In addition, there is a composite video coax along with a number of speaker, audio, touch screen control, etc. wires. The monitor plugs directly into a Vehicle Hub Pro. Analyzing the video with a scope it looks like the horizontal sync is 31.5 KHz so it looks good as a 800x480 VGA candidate. Great price too!

Buzz