About 5 years ago we purchased a custom in car entertainment system for our mini van. We had 7" screens installed in the headrests, a DVD player installed between the two front seats and a remote start also installed. I want to say that the system cost about $1500 to do. Over the years the technology has improved but the price has stayed about the same. We found that dealing with the DVDs in the car was a huge pain in the butt. The disks would get scratched up and getting them started was a huge pain. You can't see the screen while driving so you would end up memorizing the menus to get a movie started. A little over a year ago I saw that you could play movies on an iPod. I purchased an iPod classic and started ripping all of our movies to it. It was perfect! We could plug in the iPod and get a movie started for the kids in 10 seconds flat all while doing 75mph down the interstate.

Now come about 2 months ago we decided that it was time to get rid of the van and get something with 4WD now that we live in Colorado. So off I went on the perfect solution for in car entertainment. I was disappointed to see that the cost was still about the same and the technology still relied on using DVDs. Then came the moment of falling off the toilet and figuring out the flux capacitor. The iPod works like a charm for a movie jukebox so why don't we just get each kid their own iPod. I found that you can get a refurbished iPod Nano for $100 on apple.com. Then you can pick up the 2 year apple care for $39. So for 3 kids it was $417 for them to watch their own movies. That is saving of about $1000 and we don't have to deal with the hassle of DVDs. From a parent's perspective this is fantastic!
The kids can put on whatever movie they want to and not fight over what to watch
We don't have to hear the movie that they are watching either!