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PCM and Ipod connectivity issues - thing of the past?

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ArBee

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Is this the answer to future connectivity issues with PCM2?

Manufacturers of portable media players and MP3 devices now have an option to standardising the interconnectivity of their devices with in-home and vehicle audio and video systems. A new manufacturing standard released in May this year is designed to provide manufacturers with a single standardised connector for transmitting audio, video, power and other types of signals between devices.

The new connector is no bigger than Apple's iPod connector. The standard specifies a 30-pin connector, with each pin assigned a particular task. Certain pins support USB, and others support functions such as low-current power, high-current power, digital audio output, video output, serial connectivity, and antenna and remote control signals.

And get this: The new serial protocol is based on a networking protocol known as Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) Sound farmiliar? : yep its the very same MOST used in our cars

Apparently the committee in the USA that has developed the standard looked at all the serial protocols to find what was the closest to what they needed, and MOST was the closest, so the have taken that and then adapted it the needs of the new standard.

So I hope someone from Porsche R & D reads this?

RB
 
In the words of one of my Computer Science lecturers at Uni: "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them". The problem is that there is no real incentive for manufacturers to make their devices interoperable - they can't (or won't) even standardise a simple power supply connector!
 
Apparently over a hundred manufacturers have been involved with this so we live in hope.

RB
 
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