COMPUTER MASALA: Car Stereo

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Car Stereo

Car audio/video (car AV) or Vehicle audio for non-car vehicles, auto radio, mobile audio, 12-volt and other terms are used to describe the sound or video system fitted in a vehicle. While 12-volt audio and video systems are also used, marketed, or manufactured for marine, aviation, and buses, and even applications outside of automotive use like slot panels for demo models in stores prior to purchase, this article focuses on cars as the most common application. From the earliest days of radio, enthusiasts had adapted domestic equipment to use in their cars. In the 1960s, tape players using reel-to-reel equipment, 8-track cartridges in the late 60s and early 70s. Compact Cassettes were introduced for in-car use in the mid 1970s and were primarily used until Compact Discs (CDs) came into use in the mid to late 1980s.