Category: Entertainment

VuQube, for dockside satellite TV 8

VuQube, for dockside satellite TV

VuQube_Sat_TV

The neat thing about putting satellite TV on your boat is that if you already have the service at home, most companies will let you put it on the boat for just the monthly cost of another receiver. The problem, though, is…

Fusion Marine Stereo, iPod right 1

Fusion Marine Stereo, iPod right

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It’s still in prototype, “but close to done”, and close enough that I’m sure this entirely new Fusion marine stereo design is going to make some boaters very happy. Particularly those of the iPod orientation…

KVH M3 earns award, and competitor 1

KVH M3 earns award, and competitor

At METS, the DAME awards electronics category was deservedly won by KVH’s M3 satellite TV system, a product that impressed me big time when tested last summer. But the little M3 now has a competitor worth noting,...

Optea XLMulti, a boat projector? 3

Optea XLMulti, a boat projector?

Here’s a novel idea seen at METS: a marinized, 9–28v digital projector (front or back) meant to show multifunction nav data in the cockpit or—just swing it around—a big screen movie in the salon. The potential...

Testing the KVH TracVision M3, continued 2

Testing the KVH TracVision M3, continued

I’m still thinking, and writing a PMY column, about my TracVision M3 experience. I called Chris Watson, KVH’s Communications Manager, yesterday and wasn’t surprised to learn that the company has two full time technical writers on...

KVH TV on an MFD, YGWYPF 0

KVH TV on an MFD, YGWYPF

Continuing on the subject of testing KVH’s M3 TV system, pictured above (and bigger here) is the nifty little 12v Direct TV receiver and RF remote that are included. The 3 LEDs along the top left of the receiver...