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iPhone video displayed on portable DVD player

Here's the completed solution to the pain we experienced when swapping DVDs on our road trip.

We were successfully able to get video from my iPhone displayed on our portable DVD player that was strapped in between the front seats.

I bought the Apple Composite A/V Cable, 1 audio to stereo mini-jack converter for the audio and a audio to mono mini-jack converter for the video. These were able to plug directly into the mini-jack inputs on our portable DVD player. My car also has an axillary input on for the stereo, so we were able to both pump audio into the DVD player as well as into the car sound system using the headphone jack on the iPhone.

The advantage: Play video after video without having to unbuckle, turn around, bend over backwards and swap out DVDs. Not having to carry transport DVDs.

The challenge: I was able to have 8 feature length movies on my 16GB iPhone. But with 3 kids, it wasn't necessarily enough variety to meet the requests of all 3 kids.

The downside: Alex wasn't able to play with the maps on the iPhone without interrupting the video, but the car has navigation.

DVD player in/outputs

iSee iTunes

Sorry, Alex, this looks very interesting. iSee iTunes for Tivo. I might need to try this this weekend.

 

Final Four Party 2005

We had 15 adults and 10 kids over last night to watch the 2 Final Four games. That's the most people we've had over to the house since we've moved in. We can't wait until we get landscaping in the backyard and extend the patio. We'll have even more room for entertaining. Seems like everyone had a good time. Thanks to Alex for her planning and hard work!

Here's some pics.

We had a little snafu with watching the game in HD. We don't get great reception for CBS using the HD antenna.