• Directed Electronics is releasing more than 140 new products this year (not including the 500 new SKUs in our Custom Headrest Video program introduced at SEMA!)
• The Snake Pit Opens: A world class 10,000 square foot installer training facility located at Directed’s Vista headquarters
• The Science of Security: Clifford G5 introduces its new 2-Way Spread-Spectrum Dot Matrix Menu Remote with One Mile Range
• Revolutionary New Security Systems debut from Viper, Python and Matrix, with cutting edge new features including remote adjustable shock sensor and 5 auxiliary outputs
• New Viper, Python and Matrix Responder Security remote features new sensor icons and multi-vehicle operation button
• Directed Exclusive: Mobile Electronics Retail Distribution of SIRIUS Sportster and SIRIUSConnect
• Unique New Industrial Design for Directed Video Monitors with cutting edge features like Removable DVD, Picture-in-Picture and Digital High Definition Panels
• Powerful New Industrial Design for Directed Audio Amplifiers
• Directed Video Headrest Program Introduced at SEMA Shipping by CES
• Featured on MTV’s Hottest Show Pimp My Ride: New West Coast Customs-branded Audio and Video products by Orion and Directed Video
• Bestselling Valet and AviStart remote starters from Avital get HX offboard superheterodyne receiver for optimum range
• Exciting Upgrades and Cost-downs to Award-winning Directed GPS Lineup

The Snake Pit is located on the Southern California headquarters campus of Directed Electronics, an unsurpassed industry leader in technical support and training for more than 20 years. Directed’s award-winning field training program educates, entertains and motivates 5,000 installers each year. Directed is the mobile electronics field training champion – no one else even comes close. Now Directed has gone beyond field training to provide hands-on education in the very latest, most state-of-the-art technical training facility: The Snake Pit.

This brand new, 10,000 square foot training facility was custom designed and includes a full wood shop, welding and cutting equipment for metalworking, a full paint booth, clean-room and a complete training room with benches and a custom ventilation system. Upstairs is a bright, cool and comfortable 5,000 square foot lecture hall. The Snake Pit is the newest and most complete mobile electronics training facility in the world, and is open for business in January 2005. For more information, please visit http://www.directedsnakepit.com

 

This is simply the most advanced keychain device ever made! Scroll the wheel and see a vast selection of icons (drawn on the LCD screen via Dot Matrix.) Select the icon, enlarge it and press the button to send a command or sensor adjustment to the vehicle via Spread Spectrum, with ultra-extreme range of up to a full mile!

That’s just the remote. The system CPU itself is the most advanced Clifford system Directed has ever made, with 3-point immobilization and three separate sensors: digital tilt sensor, OmniSensor and remotely adjustable proximity sensor, with BlackJax anti carjacking, Smart Self-Powered Siren, 3 auxiliary outputs and built-in relays.

The AvantGuard 5.5X is simply the state-of-the-art 2-Way vehicle security and convenience system in the world.

 

A revolutionary advance in 2005 for Viper, Python and Clifford Matrix customers, the new security platform offers three new security systems in each line which share the same advanced yet easy-to-install CPU, with 5 auxiliary channels, remote adjustable shock sensor and other great new features never before available. Retailers can present these new systems to customers as GOOD (1-Way), BETTER (LED 2-Way) and BEST (Responder, now with a dedicated programming button for true multi-vehicle operation).

 

The multiple award-winning Responder systems from Directed are the industry standard for 2-Way communication between the user’s keychain remote and their vehicle. Now in 2005, check the icons on the redesigned Responder security screen and you’ll see some great new features:

• Shock sensor level readout on-screen
• Multi-Vehicle Icon indicates selected vehicle
• Individual icons for each sensor

That’s not all! Turn the Responder security remote around and what do you see on the back? A fifth button for programming and multi-vehicle selection. Finally, Responder security systems now use ASK Technology, so they are fully compatible with standard 266 1-Way remotes! Once again, Responder sets the standard.

 

Directed and SIRIUS have teamed up to provide an affordable satellite radio receiver for the car, for the home and on the go, with unique sports features. The Sportster is a game-winning touchdown! Available in Car Kit, Home Kit and Boombox configurations, with accessories.

SiriusConnect Tuners offer a quick and affordable solution for specific SIRIUS-ready head units. These compact modules combine a high-performance SIRIUS tuner with an interface, allowing it to plug directly into SIRIUS-ready radios from Alpine, Kenwood and other manufacturers. Everything you need to access high quality satellite radio service is included in the convenient package.

 

Directed offers a unique and eye-catching industrial design in 2005, with exciting new features like:

• Removable DVD/CD/MP3 (playable in the home)
• Split screen
• Picture-in-picture
• Memory card reader
• Rotating or pivoting overhead monitors.

The new Directed Video monitors for 2005 are high quality premium video systems from a world leader in Rear Seat Entertainment.

 

Directed Video now offers Factory Replacement Headrests, prefabricated for 7” Directed video monitors. These new headrests fit 150 different vehicles, with more than 500 color combinations in cloth, vinyl and leather. Each headrest comes with dual wireless headphone transmitters and a wired headphone jack, so each passenger can watch their own movie.

Unlike many competing headrests, Directed offers three position ratchets to adjust the viewing angle: one click, two clicks, three clicks and then back to the original viewing angle.

The new Directed headrests offer stealth mounting. The connecting wires go through the headrest post, and each monitor comes with a slipcover to prevent theft.

 

For almost two decades, Valet and AviStart have been two of the world’s premier remote start brands. Wherever winter roars and rages, drivers look to the convenience of Valet and AviStart to get them through “the season,” and year after year these bestselling brands deliver.

Now, with the introduction of the amazing new HX offboard window-mount receiver, AviStart and Valet systems offer rock solid superheterodyne range that typically reaches or exceeds a full quarter-mile! No more stepping outside to verify the parking lights are on – with HX you can be sure the vehicle has started, every time!

 

In 2005 Directed has dramatic improvements in store for retailers, installers and end-users of our Innovations Award-winning line of GPS Vehicle Location products, starting with lower costs for both the hardware as well as the new vastly simplified service plans (which go from 18 different levels down to four!)

Directed GPS is the Ultimate Add-on because it has unique features no other competing system has, and it quickly adds these capabilities to Directed systems for customers who want the following:

• Ability to pinpoint their vehicle on a web-based computer map, or on any telephone via Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
• Geofence capability to allow the vehicle to tell you it’s been stolen, via phone or e-mail notification
• Unique parental features for teenage drivers, including overspeed notification and roadside assistance

Now in 2005, Directed is offering these great new enhancements to our GPS program:

• New antenna for improved reliability
• New customer-friendly presentation materials
• New installer-friendly troubleshooting TeleTool: the LED Field Test Terminal

In 2005 it has never been easier to: “Find It! Track It! Get it Back!”