{"id":1295,"date":"2009-04-20T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2009-04-20T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T20:59:12","slug":"m5-widescreen-installation-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/m5-widescreen-installation-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 widescreen installation complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane kindly collected the widescreen surround from BMW today for me, so the M5 widescreen installation is now complete. Here&#8217;s how it used to look:<\/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 now!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1296\" title=\"Widescreen :)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mukerji.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1706-1600x1200-800x600.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Widescreen :)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1706-1600x1200.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1706-1600x1200.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscn1706-1600x1200.jpg?resize=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much better! So this just leaves the small matter of flogging off my old monitor and trying to recover some money from the needless purchase of another TV tuner &#8211; see my auctions <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&amp;item=230337433101\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&amp;item=230338449179\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve hopefully recovered some funds from that, it&#8217;ll be time to look into getting a more modern nav computer. I wonder if anyone can tell me whether this is the way to go about improving the shocking 80s appearance of the OBC menu graphics, or whether that is achieved with a more modern TV tuner, or some other way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane kindly collected the widescreen surround from BMW today for me, so the M5 widescreen installation is now complete. Here&#8217;s how it used to look: And now! Much better! So this just leaves the small matter of flogging off my old monitor and trying to recover some money from the needless purchase of another TV&nbsp;[&hellip;] &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/m5-widescreen-installation-complete\/\">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\/1295"}],"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=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}