NO MORE PIONEER TV TUNER! — AVIC411 Forum Archive

Posted Apr 08, 2007 · 05:47 UTC#1

one my local authorized pioneer dealer just informed me today that pioneer will not be making anymore tv tuners at all the 5700 has been discontinued and thats that the reason behind is that most tv channels according to a law that was passed by congress said the all channels should go to digital and HD and no more analog in 2007 so with this is mind pioneer has decided to get rid of it just thought id inform if u already knew this well thanx for reading again :-)

Posted Apr 08, 2007 · 05:48 UTC#2

yeah this is old news, but good to inform anyone else who may not have known. You can still get plenty 3rd party tv tuners for much cheaper.

Posted Apr 09, 2007 · 06:48 UTC#3

yeah this is old news, but good to inform anyone else who may not have known. You can still get plenty 3rd party tv tuners for much cheaper.

yeah but with no ipbus support controlling said tuners becomes more of a chore.

oh wells

Posted Apr 09, 2007 · 13:04 UTC#4

one my local authorized pioneer dealer just informed me today that pioneer will not be making anymore tv tuners at all the 5700 has been discontinued and thats that the reason behind is that most tv channels according to a law that was passed by congress said the all channels should go to digital and HD and no more analog in 2007 so with this is mind pioneer has decided to get rid of it just thought id inform if u already knew this well thanx for reading again

Wow.... thats the longest sentence ever.... lol. :shock:

Posted Apr 09, 2007 · 23:21 UTC#5

Just because I'm a technical kind of guy....

All channels are going digital, not digital and HD. I wish they were all going HD!

Posted Apr 10, 2007 · 13:41 UTC#6

Just because I'm a technical kind of guy....

All channels are going digital, not digital and HD. I wish they were all going HD!

You beat me to it...

Posted Apr 10, 2007 · 17:58 UTC#7

so in order to have TV in our vehicles, we are going to have to have satellite? no more antenna?

Posted Apr 10, 2007 · 18:36 UTC#8

No, there will still be over-the-air signal, just a different format

so in order to have TV in our vehicles, we are going to have to have satellite? no more antenna?

Posted Apr 10, 2007 · 18:40 UTC#9

Sirius announced it was working on it's "Sirius TV". Just like Dishtv, though for the vehicles. Not sure how that will work with the XM/Sirius merger.

Posted Apr 11, 2007 · 04:05 UTC#10

Just because I'm a technical kind of guy....

All channels are going digital, not digital and HD. I wish they were all going HD!

Really? Wow, that sucks! I thought all broadcasting stations had to go HD but had a choice of picking either 720p or 1080i. So what's their other choice; 480i or 480p just as long as it's transmitted digitally? I was really excited about getting all-HD channels over-the-air come 2009. So much for that. :cry:

Posted Apr 11, 2007 · 23:55 UTC#11

Their choices are:

480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i.

Thats:

SD, ED, HD, HD.

480 can be widescreen or standard.

A lot of them are broadcasting in HD as it is. Expect CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX to be HD. They are all in HD here already -- some programming is SD, but certainly not all. Most of the news feeds have went HD here, too.

Sirius BackSeat TV is the option I'm going with, initially launching with three stations:

1. Nickelodeon

2. Cartoon Network

3. The Disney Channel

They aren't working on it; it's coming. Chrysler has announced their vehicles available for order with it already -- expect a Sirius aftermarket tuner this summer.

I have a question -- why can't Pioneer make an ATSC tuner to receive the digital stations? It's really not that much different -- it just does MPEG decoding and the like. It's not THAT hard!