Sirius Backseat TV was selected among a handful pretty incredible technical innovations as one of Cars.com's Top 10 Best Car Features introduced in 2007.
Their reasons for picking Sirius Backseat TV is undoubtedly one of the big selling points to parents: "Any parent can tell you that one of the big drags about taking kids on long trips is all the stuff you've got to carry with you. Chrysler's new Sirius Satellite TV makes this a bit easier by removing your DVD collection from the list."
Sirius Backseat TV joins the ranks of other auto innovations like Infiniti's Lane Departure Prevention system (it actually eases you back in between the lines), Volvo's Integrated Booster Seats (a concept so simple, it's brilliant), and of course, Ford SYNC.
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I had an integrated booster seat in my 1995 Dodge Intrepid. I'd say it's a forgotten innovation, not a new one.
Ryan have you heard anything about Howard TV and Playboy Channel being carried on Sirius backseat TV? That would definitely be great content that would move units. Instead of just listening to Howards show, we could all watch it live, esp. the pests who would have nothing else to listen to anymore.
0.0 and 202 are going down to make room for the bandwidth for Howard 100.
Did I mention how important it is that, no matter how vaguely the subject matter is related to Sirius, that I mention O&A and how low their ratings are? Even when it has nothing to do with anything? And I'm just kissing Howard Stern's ass like the mindless zombie I am?
Everyone's ripping me off! I created everything...isn't that right, Fred? Hoo hoo!
Morons.
Playboy and Howard TV in the back seat of a mini van? Those aren't kid friendly channels, and you'll never see them in the back seat of a car unless you've recorded it onto a DVD and you're playing it back. Adding those channels wouldn't move any units since most driving is done from the front seat, and most people don't chill out in the back seat of their car, unless their homeless or in high school.
I am sure we are going to see a portable TV that plays more than Kid stuff and it will play were no other TV can other than using sat TV with a dish.
My guess is that some people will have Sirius TV in the home as the only TV AND NO DISH NEEDED.
KVHI's track vision all Direct TV in a mobile platform, antenea costs $1000. But this is full TV. As for Sirius. I guess the kids don't care but I thought Spongebob was yellow and not green.
Is it a great feature for Sirius/Chrysler? Yes... but is it an efficent use of their Bandwidth? That we will n ot know.