A place to put your physical media CD and DVD player

[SearFerret]

I think it would be an excellent idea for scout to have a CD and DVD player as when you’re out in the mountains you don’t always have cell service and you can’t always play your music or watch a movie and if you have a CD and DVD player you don’t have to worry about that plus if you don’t pay monthly for subscription like Apple or Spotify or you don’t want to you can use your own CDs and DVDs. I think this could be a cool option and maybe you can make it like a C6 Corvette where the screen flips up revealing the DVD and CD player that would be pretty cool. Or it could just be a regular cd and dvd player doesn’t need to be fancy but it would be nice if it was and if you like this don’t forgot to upvote so more can see

 

[Mousehunter]

Honestly - don't need it. Digital media is easier - either via connecting cell phone, or various type of memory card/stick. That said, I stream almost 100% (well, 6 months ago I downloaded and played - which solves the connection issue, but have not needed to do it for months).

 

[SearFerret]

Honestly - don't need it. Digital media is easier - either via connecting cell phone, or various type of memory card/stick. That said, I stream almost 100% (well, 6 months ago I downloaded and played - which solves the connection issue, but have not needed to do it for months).

It’s best to have and not need than to need and not have plus I feel like this this wouldn’t add a lot to the cost or make it an add on, and this is a really good option for people who don’t like perpetually, renting their content and music

 

[R1TVT]

Add a VHS and Beta Max!

 

[SearFerret]

Add a VHS and Beta Max!

Come on why would you be opposed to something like this

 

[J Alynn]

Scout will be offering satellite so those concerned about music in the wilderness can take advantage of that access. I would be open to a single CD player but probably because I’m older and we probably have 100+ CDs still stored for use. That said, not a make or break and just more money that I don’t need to spend

 

[SearFerret]

Scout will be offering satellite so those concerned about music in the wilderness can take advantage of that access. I would be open to a single CD player but probably because I’m older and we probably have 100+ CDs still stored for use. That said, not a make or break and just more money that I don’t need to spend

Same have a collection of movies that I OWN on dvd and don’t have to rent through 10 different streaming services plus love to burn cds and made new playlists on my laptop

 

[J Alynn]

Same have a collection of movies that I OWN on dvd and don’t have to rent through 10 different streaming services plus love to burn cds and made new playlists on my laptop

I have Pandora streaming (yeah-I’m old) but I have so many play lists I’ve made i don’t want to go to Spotify and have to rebuild them

 

[OleScout]

I have Pandora streaming (yeah-I’m old) but I have so many play lists I’ve made i don’t want to go to Spotify and have to rebuild them

Now if you said you had Napster as your music streaming service perhaps I would have questioned your age and praised your patience of downloading 1 song taking 45 minutes.

 

[speedrye]

I have Pandora streaming (yeah-I’m old) but I have so many play lists I’ve made i don’t want to go to Spotify and have to rebuild them

I'm with Pandora as well, but mostly because it's the only service that still works natively with my 10-year old car. I can do bluetooth streaming, but the audio quality isn't as good. I'm definitely leery of technology in cars because of this.

 

[R1TVT]

Hopefully Scout offers support for Palm Pilot integration to the Head unit.

 

[cyure]

Hopefully Scout offers support for Palm Pilot integration to the Head unit.

We had a Newton!

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

Add a VHS and Beta Max!

Don’t forget laser disc

 

[J Alynn]

I'm with Pandora as well, but mostly because it's the only service that still works natively with my 10-year old car. I can do bluetooth streaming, but the audio quality isn't as good. I'm definitely leery of technology in cars because of this.

Somewhere(or we likely got rid of it) we had a Sirius/XM boombox radio as they had offered them early on and we thought we were being cutting edge

 

[cyure]

Don’t forget laser disc

We had those! The Abyss was 6 sides. Get up and turn the disc over honey. Get up and change the disc honey.

 

[speedrye]

Somewhere(or we likely got rid of it) we had a Sirius/XM boombox radio as they had offered them early on and we thought we were being cutting edge

I quickly realized XM was a scam when I installed it in a car in the early 2000's. Even to this day, I can't get it outside at home, nor on 50% of my drive to work in any vehicle equipped with it. Stupid trees.

 

[J Alynn]

I quickly realized XM was a scam when I installed it in a car in the early 2000's. Even to this day, I can't get it outside at home, nor on 50% of my drive to work in any vehicle equipped with it. Stupid trees.

Yeah. Still cracks me up they are in with manufacturers for the free trial. Service was so hit or miss with them

 

[strider]

Same have a collection of movies that I OWN on dvd and don’t have to rent through 10 different streaming services plus love to burn cds and made new playlists on my laptop

Why would you create more plastic waste in the world burning CDs when you can just make playlists of digital media files? We were doing this with Winamp over 30 years ago. And now with lossless compression like FLAC it sounds just as good as a CD - you do realize that CDs are digital right? Please don't add a CD/DVD player that gets dirty and breaks, not to mention takes of tons of room. Load up your music on a USB stick and roll. The last thing I want is to be this person. Again. https://www.facebook.com/JohnsonFiles/videos/driving-in-the-90s/934632857185770/

 

[oldgeeksguide]

I can understand the antipathy towards streaming services and the whole tendency towards subscription based everything, but I don’t see optical cd sized discs in vehicles coming back in the foreseeable future. USB drives probably make more sense, as pointed out. Adding something like a cd player takes time, effort and space, and doing that for the exceedingly small number of people who’d actually want it is undoubtedly not going to make sense. It’s nice to dream, but maybe dream up an aftermarket solution, that’d be cool.

Meanwhile, I’m just hoping we can get a button heavy BEV with real door handles that’ll fit in my garage that I can climb into without a stepladder. With a cool scout logo, of course.

 

[Scout_Lookout]

Hopefully Scout offers support for Palm Pilot integration to the Head unit.

Do you think it would be too much to ask for my Zune also?