The Visteon Dockable Entertainment System (officially referred to as ''Dockable Entertainment featuring Game Boy Advance'') is a portable DVD player created by

Visteon Visteon Corporation (VC) is an American global automotive electronics supplier and Fortune 500 company spun off from the Ford Motor Company in 2000. Visteon is composed of multiple businesses that design, engineer, and manufacture vehicle cockpit ...

in 2006 for the US market at an

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of $1299

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. The player is notable for containing officially licensed

Game Boy Advance The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, ...

hardware, as Visteon partnered with Nintendo to announce the product at CES 2006. Initially due out in April, the product was then delayed to May before finally launching in July of that year. To celebrate the product's launch Visteon held a photography and writing contest. The device was not sold at general retailers, but rather at car dealerships in combination with a roof docking head mount for installation, or already equipped in select models of certain vehicles. On April 1, 2008, Visteon introduced a model mounted into

headrest Head restraints (also called headrests) are an automotive safety feature, attached or integrated into the top of each seat to limit the rearward movement of the adult occupant's head, relative to the torso, in a collision — to prevent or ...

s for $1699. Later that year the company expressed interest in creating similar products for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms, though neither materialized.

Hardware specifications

The most common roof-mountable version is based on the Visteon XV101 portable DVD player, and shares specifications in all aspects except those regarding Game Boy Advance compatibility. *10.2" Flip Down LCD Display *6-Pin Auxiliary Port *

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Port *DVD Drive *Game Boy Advance Cartridge Slot Alongside this, the player came with a wireless game controller (a modified

Sky Active Sky Active was the brand name for interactive features on Sky Digital and was available in the UK and Ireland. It enabled a viewer to interact with TV content, respond to an advertisement or access internet-based services. History and techn ...

gamepad), a set of wireless headphones, a remote control, and compatibility with

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...

and WMA CD files. Unique to the headrest model was a 7"

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screen, backlit DVD controls plus an additional remote, headphone and game controller. Neither version of the hardware was backwards compatible with Game Boy or Game Boy Color games.

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