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Abstract

A vehicle entertainment system is adapted to be mounted to a vehicle. It has a mounting bracket adapted for coupling to a dashboard of a vehicle, a vehicle seat, its headrest if present, or mounting posts for such a headrest, or into an arm-rest for a vehicle seat. A mounting arm is mounted for rotation relative to the mounting bracket about a main axis arranged in use to extend generally horizontally. A monitor unit has a front side and a rear side. The monitor unit has at least one structure enabling access to entertainment for a user. The structure may be at least one of a monitor screen on the front side, controls for an audio system on the front side, controls for an audio system on the rear side, and a slot adapted for a tablet computer to dock therein both physically and electronically with the screen of the tablet computer exposed on the rear side. The monitor unit is mounted to the mounting arm for rotation with the mounting arm about the main axis for adjustment of the angle of presentation of its front or rear side to suit a user. The monitor unit is coupled to the mounting arm by a pivot defining a pivot axis extending substantially at 45° to the main axis for rotation of the monitor unit relative to the mounting arm about this pivot axis. As a result, a user may select between presentation to the user of at least one of a monitor screen on the front side, controls for an audio system on the front side, controls for an audio system on the rear side, when present, and the screen of a tablet computer docked in the slot on the rear side of the monitor unit when present, in each case in a selected one of portrait and landscape modes.

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