Many people treat their vehicles as an extension of their own personalities. They're taking their cars and installing a number of aftermarket comfort steering wheel cover accessories in addition to the options and standard equipment that come with a car nowadays. One of these is the car DVD player and it's an extremely versatile device. Taking a look at the question "Car DVD player mysteries: What is steering wheel control," is worth examining, if only to figure out just what player to purchase. To start, many vehicles today come straight from the factory with controls on their steering wheels that can handle a variety of functions, including climate control and radio tuner control. These are mainly convenience devices and can help a person keep his or her eyes on the road rather than glancing over to the dashboard control stack, which is one of the main reasons other than convenience for why they might be on the wheel.
Today's car DVD players - at least the top-end ones - can come with a way to add the ability to control an aftermarket car DVD player with existing steering wheel controls already on just about any car regardless of whether or not the car was wired for controls in the first place. They do this through the use of simple adapter devices and interface controllers and the dedicated do-it-yourself, who's willing to go online and learn a few things, can pretty much install his or her own player and newly-adapted steering controls relatively simply. The level of interaction that a person can engage in with a steering wheel control and a car DVD player is impressive. Making use of special wiring harnesses that go between the player and the control adapters is usually how everything's accomplished, and the fact that almost everything is now controlled through use of infrared (IR) makes it all the easier to do.
