In car entertainment
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In Car Entertainment, commonly referred to as ICE is a collection of hardware devices installed into your car, or other form of transportation, to provide you with Audio and/or Audio/Visual entertainment. This includes playing media such as CD, DVD, Freeview/TV, USB.
Also ever increasingly common in ICE installs are the incorporation of video games consoles into the vehicle.
In Car Entertainment systems have recently come into the limelight through TV shows such as MTV's Pimp My Ride. In Car Entertainment has been made available to the masses due to reduced costs of devices such as screen/monitors, and the reducing cost to the consumer of the converging media playable technologies. Single hardware units are capable of playing CD, MP3, WMA, DVD.
Through Infrared headphones families now can enjoy long journeys where the children can play games and/or watch DVD's in the back of the car, front passengers too. All this whilst the driver can listen to traditional sounds - radio, CD, MP3.
