Ok, I think I hooked a guy in my dorm... he's all about trying to do the same thing in his Vette... only problem is he doesn't have the room to mount anything like we do.
So he's done some googling/ebaying, and
this company shows detailed how-to's on putting your existing Lilliput/Xenarc screen into a single DIN housing so it can be mounted easiar. Follow links on home page for that.
Or, you can
buy a DIN housing with Lilliput 7" screen installed already. This is pretty cool if you're not good at custom making stuff.
So this page also let me know who made the actual TFT LCD screen in my monitor... it's a Hitachi TX18D11VM1CAA.
Here is an Adobe PDF file with the specs of the Hitachi screen.
Here is a side by side comparison of a Lilliput and Xenarc scrren... I think the Lilliput puts out better picture quality in these tests.
I also played Doom3 for a little bit (800x600, med graphics) and watched an actual DVD on it; both were clear as could be sitting 3 feet away (need to be closer to read text @ 800x600)
EDIT:
Here's another. Never heard of Innovatek (but... also never heard of Lilliput before I started, either)
EDIT #2: Reading on
this thread off mp3car.com, found out that if you bought a Lilliput before Oct 20th, they used recyled screens out of some popular casino game. A lot of people had a Jurassic Park logo or a woman ghosted onto the screen (had something to do with the cheap electronics). After Oct 20th, they are new LCD's. I certainly didn't notice Jurassic Park or a chick on mine...
EDIT last for the night!: Your Contour is only the 2nd Teal colored one I've seen with a V6... Other one I saw was in a junkyard in Texas (also was a 1995 V6/5spd, cloth seats though), I got the fenders off and fixed
my old teal one. I used to try to look at every teal Contour to see if they had the V6 badge, none did until that one in Texas.
