(HELP)v 2005 corvette navigation hack
Thread Starter
Intermediate
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 32
Likes: 0
(HELP)v 2005 corvette navigation hack
I just got a 2005 corvette and was wondering if anyone knew how to decode it or have a trick to watching dvd movies on it. I tryed with car off and e brake up and got nothing it sais you cant watch movies on it, but does someone know how to over ride it so that it can, or a chip you can buy . Cadillac navigation is the same there both gm products so any help with this id really aprreciate or is there a place on the net where you can get chips from.
Team Owner
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 82,175
Likes: 1,319
From: McKinney TX
St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
This has been discussed in another thread. I don't think the author of that thread had much luck, but here it is:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=905309
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=905309
Pro
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 524
Likes: 46
From: DFW TX
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
Top 10 Most Expensive Corvettes Ever Sold on Bring A Trailer
Brett Foote
10 Things Every Corvette Owner Needs (2026 Edition)
Michael S. Palmer
8 Most "Only Corvette Owners Understand" Quirks and Problems
Pouria Savadkouei
10 Reasons the C6 Z06 is Still A Performance Benchmark After 20 Years
Joe Kucinski
How Much Horsepower Every Corvette Engine "LOST" in 1972
Joe Kucinski
Top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for Protecting Your Convertible Top!
Michael S. Palmer
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,927
Likes: 9
From: Ozark, Alabama
Originally Posted by Dannyc
I just got a 2005 corvette and was wondering if anyone knew how to decode it or have a trick to watching dvd movies on it. I tryed with car off and e brake up and got nothing it sais you cant watch movies on it, but does someone know how to over ride it so that it can, or a chip you can buy . Cadillac navigation is the same there both gm products so any help with this id really aprreciate or is there a place on the net where you can get chips from.
I picked my C6 up Thursday and did a 600 mile trip. The nav system is a joke and a horrible waste of money. Looks cool and better used to play movies I'd say.
It is a stupid device and tried to route me on every back road off the interstate. Can't fix that either in any preferences. You can add a ton of vias but then if you do that you obviously don't need the thing in the first place. Stupid software.
$1400 down a hole ... very poor unit. The manual / booklet is a joke and it is not accurate. I have the DeLorme Sstreet Atlas program and I can easly control it and it is right on the money. GM could surely have done this.
Team Owner
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 38,772
Likes: 621
From: Boston MA
St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08,'12-'13
the screen resolution on the c6 nav IS NOT capibile of dispalying video
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,927
Likes: 9
From: Ozark, Alabama
Originally Posted by burtonbl103
the screen resolution on the c6 nav IS NOT capibile of dispalying video
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
It is also junk.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 2000
Posts: 2,221
Likes: 0
From: Los Angeles CA
Originally Posted by burtonbl103
the screen resolution on the c6 nav IS NOT capibile of dispalying video
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
Platinum Supporting Vendor
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 3,665
Likes: 341
Yea I went out and found a DVD to try and it didn't work. That procedure came from a assembly line worker who was telling me about it while they were testing the electronics in a Vette that was getting ready to come off the line. I am very dissapointed, but what do you do.
Team Owner
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 38,772
Likes: 621
From: Boston MA
St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08,'12-'13
Originally Posted by Adam Bruce
The Nav screen has plenty of resolution to display video. Actually it takes Higher resolution to display text and lines on the screen than to display video. For instace your television runs around 320 lines of resolution, your typical computer monitor runs 768 to 1,200 lines of resolution. Computer monitors typically have the capability to run higher resoution than even HD Television.
These monitors are only capible of 240 X 480 resolution
and only 256 Colors
From all the research i have done GM has cheaped out on this model for the vette
I have ordered it on my vert ( When i finally get it ) hopfully by the spring
My buddy has gotten his coupe and we have been tooling with his dvd nav
The only news that i have heard is that is the spring gm is going to offer a 6 disk changer for the nav system ( add on in the trunk i have heard)
HD is 1080 lines but most are only broadcasting 480 p or 720 I
Team Owner
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 82,175
Likes: 1,319
From: McKinney TX
St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
Originally Posted by burtonbl103
the screen resolution on the c6 nav IS NOT capibile of dispalying video
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
the resolution and colors anre NOT high enough
This unit IS NOT the same unit that is in the caddys!
You people are beating a dead horse!
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 902
Likes: 21
From: Pensacola FL
C6 FAQ Master
I liked my NAV unit in my other car (2000 Lexus) while I lived in Southern California... but..
Once I moved to Pensacola, Florida (not a small town), the street details just aren't there with no neighborhood streets, just the major thoroughfares (and lacking at those). I'll skip the NAV until someone comes out with street support for "small and middle town America"...
I think the Vette NAV suffers the same problems... lots of detail for large urban areas, and not-so-good details for small town America (you know, "Chevy country"...)
The smaller hand-held units, I've heard, do better at NAV than the factory units in this regard...
Once I moved to Pensacola, Florida (not a small town), the street details just aren't there with no neighborhood streets, just the major thoroughfares (and lacking at those). I'll skip the NAV until someone comes out with street support for "small and middle town America"...
I think the Vette NAV suffers the same problems... lots of detail for large urban areas, and not-so-good details for small town America (you know, "Chevy country"...)
The smaller hand-held units, I've heard, do better at NAV than the factory units in this regard...
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 1999
Posts: 69,020
Likes: 0
From: Bagpipes put the "fun" in "funeral"
Originally Posted by Dannyc
I just got a 2005 corvette and was wondering if anyone knew how to decode it or have a trick to watching dvd movies on it. I tryed with car off and e brake up and got nothing it sais you cant watch movies on it, but does someone know how to over ride it so that it can, or a chip you can buy . Cadillac navigation is the same there both gm products so any help with this id really aprreciate or is there a place on the net where you can get chips from.
The unit probably doesn't even have DVD decoder circuitry on it.
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 1999
Posts: 69,020
Likes: 0
From: Bagpipes put the "fun" in "funeral"
Originally Posted by burtonbl103
Video meaning MPEG 4 or wavelet compression.
These monitors are only capible of 240 X 480 resolution
and only 256 Colors
These monitors are only capible of 240 X 480 resolution
and only 256 Colors
The DVD playback could easily be downsampled to any resolution, there are already portable players that do this, however the 256 color limit is the killer. You can't playback DVD's when your video controller uses 8-bit palletized colors (256 color).
That's surprising the NAV system uses this, because even a cheap PDA these days has at least a 16-bit color controller (65,000+ colors).
However, for the purposes of navigation and menu systems, there's no need for full color support.