BMW: Bringing movies to your car!

BMW is planning to bring movies and music to your car, via download to a hard-disk behind your dashboard. A protoype is already working, as spotted here in Geneva! Nice.

As I recently reported, BMW says it has a prototype X5 SUV, developed with the European Space Agency and other consortium partners, with a satellite dish that works the same way as satellite television in your home, except the antenna is attached to the car.

Now BMW claims to have taken a further lead among car OEMs with the development of a multimedia content delivery system that streams video and music via cellular or Wi-Fi connections to a car's console from which it can be viewed or downloaded for later viewing or listening. With a PC-to-car Wi-Fi link, the system allows you to select video or sound files on your PC's hard drive, which you can then transfer wirelessly to the BMW's 20-GB console. The cellular link works the same way except that data can be transferred over longer distances, of course, compared to the limited range of a Wi-Fi connection.

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Source: Autopia

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