New iDrive Plays Movies!

eager2own Oct 26th, 2008 Link

… and we all know that it’s only a matter of very little time before ways around the “Park” safety feature will be devised.

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Drill Oct 26th, 2008 Link

I seem to remember the safety lock being fairly easy to get around on some older MT Audi’s. There was a switch to “defeat” somewhere near the shift lever and then all you had to do was pull the handbrake up 1 click.

Not sure if that’ll help at all, but it can’t hurt

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Draft Oct 26th, 2008 Link

“Nice to have” function… Does anyone know if it will be able to play a music DVD and (only)listen to it while driving ?

That would be really great with the individual sound system of the 5 series.

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Joe Bimmerfest Oct 27th, 2008 Link

Does the US version do this too? Sometimes only the Euro versions do this thanks to our nice aggressive product liability laws.

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Michael Oct 27th, 2008 Link

Joe- This is a US spec car in the US and has been since verified by several others in the US

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Video: New iDrive capable of video playback Oct 28th, 2008 Link

[...] by Horatiu B. as Videos The folks at Bimmerfile, got their hands on an Youtube video showing the new iDrive playing DVD movies. The video playback [...]

Christian Oct 28th, 2008 Link

I just checked this out on a stock unit here at the store. It works just fine on the US spec car and can decode DTS 5.1 !!

I also checked the “handbrake click” and while driving… It does turn on the screen. So I would think that would be a very simple defeat.

If you live in Arizona come see me.

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davidkup Dec 6th, 2009 Link

hello, can some one tell me how to install this future to play dvd movies in my idrive, i have a BMW 3 series 2009 with idrvie i trayed to play a dvd but it dosent work

thanks

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Michael Dec 6th, 2009 Link

David- You must have the newest generation of iDrive in your car. If you insert a DVD into the drive and go into Media portion of the system, car must have the parking brake on.

The video above was shot in a 2009 3 series.

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