Jun 7, 2005 1:52:59 PM
- Steven Martins
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- Loc: Oporto, Portugal
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- Registered on: May 10, 2004
PCM Changes - Scan of official Porsche document
My dealer received yesterday an email from Porsche with all the recent changes introduced to the PCM units and called me right away. He was kind enough to print a copy for me. It's in Spanish but I'll translate the most important parts after the pages scans.
So the main changes included on cars from April 15 are:
If someone fluent in Spanish could fill in the holes of my translation it would be great.
As a side note, I'm so pissed of about this middle of the year change that I can't really get it to words. My car was build in the begin of April.
So the main changes included on cars from April 15 are:
- Reads MP3 (it's recommended to have the files at least in 128 Kbit to get a high reproduction quality).
- The selection of titles has increased by 3 digits due to the MP3 function and the increase of the memory that this comes with (I assume it's referring to the MP3 tracks name...)
- Improved mute functions: The silent mode of the audio reproduction does not deactivates when increasing the volume during a navigation indication or traffic announcement.
Navigation Changes:
- General optimization of the navigation precision and localization, the route calculation, the guide strategy to the destination and the calculation of the time of arrival.
- The time of arrival and the distance to the destination is also shown during the zoom "crossings" (couldn't really understand the Spanish word)
- Ability to specify the postal code of the destination.
- Authorization of the TMC (Traffic Message Channel) for Spain, Grand Britain and France. This way all European customers that have the PCM can use the dynamic navigation on these countries that has in account recent traffic warnings. In Great Britain and France it's used for the first time paid high quality traffic information. The customer does not have any additional costs since the payment for this service (in Great Britain and France) is done by a single license contract and it's already included on the price of all vehicles (except the Carrera GT).
- Each TMC of the INFO menu can be shown graphically on the map.
- New cartographic material. Huge increase of the streets from 3.5 million to 5.8 million of Km.
- Increase of the zones completely digitalized on the South of Europe (France, Spain and Italy).
- New countries: Europe - Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary. Asia-Pacific - Hong Long, Macao. Australia - New Zealand.
If someone fluent in Spanish could fill in the holes of my translation it would be great.
As a side note, I'm so pissed of about this middle of the year change that I can't really get it to words. My car was build in the begin of April.
) but it is my understanding that the updated PCM 2 has also an increased memory capacity. If understood right, this means that a plain software update won't do the job at all to get MP3 functionality. 
