I emailed my contact at BMW Niederlassung in Munich and he replied that he now works at BMW AG and referred me to a colleague of his that still works at Niederlassung. I emailed her a few E70 parts questions including a question about pricing and part number for the TV Tuner Retrofit Kit. She replied to me that the Retrofit TV tuner for the E70 is going to be available in April 2008. Right now they only have the DVB-T Settop Box, which you can only use if you already have the factory installed TV Tuner. So it looks like I'm going to wait until April 2008 and hope that the OEM BMW TV Tuner retrofit kit works in the US like the old E53 one used to.......and that it would be plug-n-play like the old one. If there is a need for the dealer to do any coding to activate it then this would mean trouble as the US dealers would have no clue how to do that.

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