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Old Aug 19, 2006
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Question HU for PSP

Ok so basicly what I want to do is mount my PSP in my car too play movies and music off, then in october a GPS add on is comming out for PSP which will be awesome.

Anyway I'm a total noob at car audio and am having a very hard time trying to figure out how im gonna get the PSP to input to the car sound system. The easiest way seems to be to buy a HU with an aux input on the front but so far the only HU's with front input i have found are sony (which I know are crap so im not going to buy one).
Can anyone recommend a HU with a front input thats in the sub $200 range (I have a very tight budget).
Or is there a better way to connect my psp than a front aux input?
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get a pioneer DEH-4800mp...its like 150 and u can get an aux input in for cheap...if ur in socal in the LA area i can send u to my audio guy who can hook it up
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ya im in the san fernando valley, so a recommendation on where to go to get this stuff would be greatly appreciated

Now just to decide where in the car to mount the psp....
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I don't have an actual mount for my psp but I've hooked it up to my car stereo. Its pretty cool. One big bummer is there is no playlist for video files... in other words once it finishes playing a clip it stops instead of playing the next video. Annoying!

Anywho, why look at front aux inputs? I think they make the HU ugly! I have aux in from the back of my pioneer deck and I run it out the side of the entire cig light panel. I use it mainly to plug in my iPod which sits next to the ebrake (by far the best place to put an iPod for song switching). Good luck on your project and if you figure out a good way to mount your PSP please post it. I've been trying to figure that one out for a while.

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Well I agree front aux inputs are fugly, and I would like to do what you do with it comming out the side, but I'm scared to, and don't know how to open up the inside of my car myself haha.

Also I'm probably going to buy the dash/console mount from arkon
(wont let me post link but its just arkon.com
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I use an Ipod style fm transmiter for using laptops, and portable dvd players etc, when I have to wait in ferry line ups........thats a good $20 solution.
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Sell the PSP and put a computer in your car.
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lol, well seeing as at most id get $200 for the PSP i doubt i could get a computer with that much.

And I heard FM transmitters had poor sound quality.
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And I heard FM transmitters had poor sound quality.
It sounds the same as the radio's sound quality if you position it right.....so not cd quality but not monkey *** either
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well the other problem is, when the previous owner of the car put back in the stock sound system he forgot to plug the radio antenna into the stock HU...
so fm transmitters wont work haha
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