Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread Alan Pope
On 08/02/13 23:15, LUG wrote: We are going to be driving to Scotland to visit the in-laws in summer and accompanying us will be our (by then) year old son. He has recently discovered the joy of The Tweenies and other CBeebies based entertainment (or rather, we have discovered that said programs

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
How about a Raspberry PI and a cheap in-car TFT? I just picked up a TFT (Composite only) for £15 off E-bay. Tim B. -- Hampshire Linux User Group Chairman -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-08 23:15, LUG wrote: Has anyone used a tablet for this purpose? If not, what are people's general recommendations for reasonably cheap tablets (by that I mean something under or around £100)? my 4 year old daughter has a Sumvision Cyclone Voyager Tablet PC Rockchip Dual Core 3066

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 08/02/13 23:15, LUG wrote: We are going to be driving to Scotland to visit the in-laws in summer and accompanying us will be our (by then) year old son. Year old - that's a typo, right Keith? Because I can't imagine any child of a year old being entertained by a gadget for long. We

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread Anthony
Alan Pope wrote: On 08/02/13 23:15, LUG wrote: Firstly, his car seat is rear-facing so this would need to be something that would attach to the head-rest on the back seat, which is a different shape to the front head rests. Some of the ones I've seen come with various adjustable straps

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-09 Thread LUG
Thanks to all for the responses... Alan - No input jack in the car unfortunately and that is a good point on the sound quality, I suppose things always need to be louder in the car to overcome the road noise so something with little tiny speakers made from crisp packets is going to struggle. Tim

[Hampshire] [OT] Car based entertainment

2013-02-08 Thread LUG
Hello all, We are going to be driving to Scotland to visit the in-laws in summer and accompanying us will be our (by then) year old son. He has recently discovered the joy of The Tweenies and other CBeebies based entertainment (or rather, we have discovered that said programs will keep him quiet