Automotive Mobile Audio Video

Ten Casts Excitement Over 2005 CES Show With Introduction of Second Generation "Must-Have" Automotive Audio Video Navigation Control Units
second-generation AVN products that integrate advanced navigation and multi-entertainment at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (booth LVCC North 1413). Maintaining sleek, compact double-DIN configurations to grace center consoles, the top-of-the-line AVN5495 and AVN5435 significantly enhance the total driving experience by incorporating refinements and advances both in navigation as well as entertainment, demonstrating ECLIPSE's leading position in automobile electronics. ECLIPSE was first in introducing the AVN concept of integrating audio, video and navigation capabilities into a single unit and continues to lead development in this sector, which addresses all the requirements of a vehicle's driver and passengers.
Navigation features

The AVN5495 incorporates a 30GB hard disk to store a comprehensive navigation database to efficiently access the navigation tasks. Together with the powerful CPU and dedicated graphics processing in the AVN5495, all navigation responses and mapping are accelerated. The HDD-navigation database is 10GB, with coverage extended to Hawaii and most of Canada.

AVN5435 navigation is DVD-based and incorporates a 64-bit bus RISC CPU to manage the unit's responsive navigation and mapping tasks, delivering impressive performance as well as accelerated graphics-processing power. The AVN5435 incorporates two optical disc mechanisms so that navigation can be accessed during entertainment without any interruptions. The DVD-navigation database is 8.5GB with coverage similar to the AVN5495.

Both the AVN5495 and AVN5435's fulltime visual map referencing continues the AVN legacy of exemplary performance, with the vehicle's position smoothly moving on the display, providing a highly accurate visual positional fix that aids in navigation.

Searching has been refined with numerous search modes offered for users to select from, including address with street name and number, points of interest, map searching, emergency, memory search including assignable sound tags and directivity to locations, previous location, intersection search by inputting two cross streets, freeway search with name and entrance/exit, searching by telephone number (AVN5495 only) and map coordinates.