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Dockable in-car DVD

Dockable in-car DVD

Brian Cooley Editor at Large
Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G, the future of food, and augmented & virtual realities. Cooley is a sought after presenter by brands and their agencies when they want to understand how consumers react to new technologies. He has been a regular featured speaker at CES, Cannes Lions, Advertising Week and The PHM HealthFront™. He was born and raised in Silicon Valley when Apple's campus was mostly apricots.
Expertise Automotive technology, smart home, digital health. Credentials
  • 5G Technician, ETA International
Brian Cooley
Now this makes sense. At the SEMA show in Vegas this week, Visteon is crowing about its dockable in-car DVD system. It functions as a rear-seat entertainment system when in the car, or you can unlatch the entire unit, and it becomes a standard portable DVD player you can use on a plane, in a hotel room, wherever. This is a system that could address that hesitancy new car buyers have about in-car video systems that tend to be very pricey options, yet are usable only in the car and when you have someone in the backseat who actually wants to watch video. A dockable system such as this delivers many more usage cases for the same amount of investment.