{"id":1291,"date":"2009-04-13T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2009-04-13T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:28:34","slug":"m5-widescreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/m5-widescreen\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 Widescreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned, the rather ancient looking radio\/monitor in the M5 was bugging me, so I&#8217;ve sourced a widescreen. It is from an X5, which means that the contrast isn&#8217;t quite right when viewed from an E39 angle, but it is completely usable and when I get time, I plan on following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m5board.com\/vbulletin\/e39-m5-e52-z8-discussion\/97271-adjusting-viewing-angle-nav-screen.html\" target=\"_blank\">these crazy instruction<\/a>s to sort it out.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is what it used to look like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1292\" title=\"4:3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mukerji.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1670-800x600.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4:3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1670.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1670.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1670.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is what it looks like now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1293\" title=\"16:9\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mukerji.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1671-800x600.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"16:9\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1671.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1671.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1671.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to note that my TV tuner was able to recognise it and jump straight to a 16:9 ratio. I&#8217;m less pleased that I&#8217;ve already paid \u00a3200 for another tuner because I thought the car&#8217;s original wouldn&#8217;t be able to do this &#8211; I look forward to making a loss on that on eBay soon.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I need to source a surround from BMW to tidy things up, but otherwise this job is done. The next job in this area will be to sort out MkIV DVD navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned, the rather ancient looking radio\/monitor in the M5 was bugging me, so I&#8217;ve sourced a widescreen. It is from an X5, which means that the contrast isn&#8217;t quite right when viewed from an E39 angle, but it is completely usable and when I get time, I plan on following these crazy instructions to&nbsp;[&hellip;] &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/m5-widescreen\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}