Alpine rear screen

[rachelle]

Hi, we just bought an Alphard 8 seater

It has a Japanese Alpine screen at the rear

How can I connect it to Bluetooth or wire to get a video to play on for the kids?

I can't see the model number 

[Rojie]

8 hours ago, rachelle said:

Hi, we just bought an Alphard 8 seater

It has a Japanese Alpine screen at the rear

How can I connect it to Bluetooth or wire to get a video to play on for the kids?

I can't see the model number 

 

Hello Rachelle,

 

Welcome to the Forum.

[thomasskew07]

Hi Rachelle.

It depends on your head unit, the stereo within the dashboard.

The below text assumes that you just have a screen in the rear and no ability to load in DVDs there etc. 

 

Often the rear screen is just a repeater for what's on the front screen when the front is set to say DVD mode. The connection to that rear screen is done via the back of the stereo in the front. But, if your head unit is still Japanese you may find that you can't get UK or European DVDs to play on it anyway. 

 

Can you send a photo and model number of the head unit? 

 

We have a Vellfire ANH20 (2010 model) with a setup like this and are just about to replace the head unit so my research may well pay off for you too. 

Tom

[Azz]

I have a 2014 with an Alpine RSA10S-R-SE 10.1″, I don't have any region 2 DVDs to play in the head unit (tested region 4 and yes didn't work). I plugged a portable DVD player into the aux video in (base of the centre console) and while the soundtrack played the video content did not. I mucked around with different setting on the monitor and head uniy but nothing changed. 

One win is that I changed the language on the head unit to English and got rid of the default nivi screen and the womans voice telling the etc card wasn't inserted everytime I started the car!