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      08-10-2008, 09:38 AM   #23
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I know with all of the cars I had with iDrive, it tooks 28 seconds to boot from a cold start with nav. About 10 seconds without nav.

If you don't use CA, and unlock the car using the fob from afar, the boot time starts as soon as the door(s) unlock. So by the time you get in the iDrive is ready.

CA does not give you ample time for the boot sequence before driving.
The point about CA must be the main difference here - I don't have CA and the rear camera / PDC pops on immediately on selecting reverse. There is no delay at all...... Also - my camera does not appear to pan down. It seems to stay in the same position regardless of whether panning mode is selected - and the panning option in the iDrive is only selectable anyway when the camera is in full-screen mode (which means the PDC screen is not available in the smaller window).

Quality in daylight is actually quite good enough - and as long as there is some ambient light it works well enough at night too.

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      12-05-2008, 05:59 PM   #24
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I too have this problem. Sometimes the system loads instantaneously, sometimes it takes 30 seconds. This to me is not a huge issue. The quality of the camera during day is fine. Its not the best quality, but it is good enough. The problem is there is no light. So at night if there is no light source, the image is black. Why BMW overlooked this doesn't make any sense to me.
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      12-30-2008, 11:55 AM   #25
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Any camera would be unless it is infrared or you had a bright bright backup light.

You know you can change the display from camera to full PDC graphics?
beg to differ but i also own a lexus is250 with reversing camera
which at night all objects can clearly be seen unlike my x6
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      12-30-2008, 12:38 PM   #26
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Any camera would be unless it is infrared or you had a bright bright backup light.

You know you can change the display from camera to full PDC graphics?

Have to disagree with you on this Chuck, I put aftermarket camera in my X5 , it wasn't infrared but it had very good quality at night with just the backup lights from the X5.

I can live with the X6 camera if it would just turn on immediately when I put it in reverse as the one in my X5 did (it was triggered by a relay connected to reverse lights).

I think BMW can do a lot better than they have done here, hopefully this will be a idrive update sometime in the not to distant future.
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