shrik

Can anyone help me. The TV in my 03 5 series sport stopped working after the digital change over and I don't know if I can get a free view box or something else that will sort it out. Any help would be greatly received. Thanks

xyzbird

Isn't your tv tuner both analogue and digital? It certainly is on the E60/1. There will be no more analogue anywhere in a couple of years. Digital has been out for years so BMW surely would have provided it. One thing is for sure if you have digital tv, there have been a whole load of updates and you would need to do a retune from time to time to get channels and everything up to date. Your car manual should tell you what to do. Failing this how about googling if you are really determined. http://www.navtvman.co.uk/Page_1.html might be worth a look.

shrik

Thanks for the reply.
I'm gutted to say it looks like my TV is old and only works off analog. Any additional help would be great.

xyzbird

There must be other E39 owners out there with the same TV problem. Have you tried communicating with navtvman?

bruce_miranda

Just replace the module on the car with a Digi one and you should be good. The very early TV modules were analogue only. Another thing to consider is a DV-T module.

shrik

Thanks for that. I'm not sure what you mean about a module but I will sort it out. Once again thanks

bruce_miranda

This should work for you

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-TV-DVB-SETTOP-BOX-E38-E39-E46-E53-E60-E63-E65-X3-Z4-/170516557519?pt=UK_Audio_TV_Electronics_In_Car_Entertainment_GPS_In_Car_Audio_Players_PP
or better still

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-TV-Modul-Videomodul-E90-E92-E91-E93-E60-E61-E63-X5-/200505741038?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM

pjinca

Yep, you'll need an NTSC capable tuner to make it work

xyzbird

shrik won't need NTSC in Bristol UK!