[Scott D]

The AVIC- Z1 dose not come with a TV tuner, you have to buy that separate. I asked the pioneer dealer that installed my unit about it and he told me the pioneer brand cost about $400.00 and isn?t very good( lots of snow, grainy picture) and then he said there is a non pioneer brand for about 250.00, some a little cheaper, that?s even worse. Then he said to me ?Why do you want to spend that much money to watch TV and get three channels, four if your lucky with bad reception when you have a built in DVD player?. What he said made sense to me, so I never perused the issue. But I think at lot has to do with your topographical location, i.e. tall buildings, trees, mountains, etc?

Also remember unlike your home TV antenna it?s going to be nearly imposable to tune the antenna mounted on a moving vehicle. Even when parked your reception is always going to be changing due to your surroundings.

If you?re really interested in watching TV I would look into mobile satellite TV for vehicles. I?m not sure on the actual name, but I?ve seen it at the auto accessory stores. It?s a petty big box that mounts to the roof rails. Not sure on the price, I want to say its a couple grand but I?m not positive. I?ve only seen two around town. Not sure if they were local or just passing through. One was a Navigator and the other was an Escalade.

I know there?s a few people on this forum that have the AVIC-Z1, not sure if they have the TV tuner and how its working out for them, it?s wroth asking. If you can, try and find someone that has the TV tuner installed and ask them how happy they are with it, because my experience (except my dealer he seemed to be very honest with me for some reason) is that the dealer or retail shop is going to tell you how great it is just so they can make a sale, which you can?t blame them to much because that?s how many of them make a living. All im saying is be a smart informed consumer before you buy. Research, Research, Research!!!