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Originally Posted by riazah
lovely interior...on my rear entertainment you can only watch the same thing on both the rear screens ...is this something different in canada
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I believe in the US BMW currently only offers the standard rear seat entertainment system and in Canada we have the professional rear seat entertainment system. The difference is that the standard one comes with a remote control and two 8" screens and the professional version has a rear seat iDrive controller and two 9.2" screens.
The professional system does allow me to play different content on each screen. The CD/Multimedia option page shows me up to 8 sources. They are:
1: Rear seat DVD player
2 - 7: 6 Disc DVD changer
8: Dashboard DVD player
For example, you can play disc 3 out of the DVD changer on both rear screens or you could play disc 3 say on the right screen and either a DVD from the dashboard or rear DVD player on the left screen. If the DVD changers disc 3 is playing on the right screen and you select the DVD changers disc 4 for playback on the left screen, then the playback of disc 3 will stop and the changer will change to disc 4 and start playback of that disc on both screens. It makes sense as the DVD changer can only play one disc at a time.
In addition to the above 8 DVD source options, you can also select the rear left and right auxiliary inputs. So the total source inputs would be 10...
I think there may be more, I'm not to sure as I haven't spend that much time in the back seats yet
Now I found a rather peculiar software glitch in this system. If I select playback of a DVD changer disc on the left screen and have the wireless headphones enabled on the left side, then try to play back either the same or a different source on the right side screen AND try to enable the wireless headphone on the right side, the video does NOT seem to play on the right screen?!?
Really odd... same thing seems to happen if I try it the other way around (swap left to right). I already mentioned that to my dealership and I will go in tomorrow and show them what I found out.
Playback via the speakers works fine but as soon as I try to enable headphones on the second screen, that screen just doesn't display the video. Oddly enough, if I watch the video on the other screen, I can still use the controller (iDrive controller) switched to the side that doesn't display video to select options from the DVD menu... That is if they are set to play back the same video... As I said, a rather odd glitch...