Customer Reviews

Dual XDVD8181 In-Dash DVD Receiver with 7-Inch Touchscreen

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i first was looking for a stereo but i seen this in the store at a good price, so i decide to try it and its great. its way better than a regular stereo and i brought two one for me and my girlfriend i would recommend to any looking for a car stereo that has it all i rated it a A+++

I will make it short

THE GOOD
* The player supports GIGA MP3/WMA. it playes MP3s and WMAs burned on a dvd, so your entire library can be within your fingertips in less number of discs.
* Very Good DVD player
* great sound

THE BAD
* Pooooooorr featured MP3 player
* secondary display screen is very unclear day or night. I have to switch to the main screen to see what's going on. the brightness, contrast cannot be changed as far as I tried hard. I emailed the customer support, and it's been 2 weeks now. nothing from them.
* No Ipod control. it is just an auxiliary input. basically for any kind of audio/video output device such as playstation, mp3 players, camcorders, ...etc. nothing special for the ipod. some players out there have the ipod dial displayed on the main screen and you can control it from there, no need to take your eyes of the road.
* Does not support playlists.
* Does not support filtering/browsing by artist ot album or even genre. ALL in one big list.
* Does not View Folders in one screen to help you choose a specific folder to listen to. you have to skip pages and pages to get to what you want.
* No Visualizer. some players like clarion gives you visualization and some kind of animation while a file is played. like windows media player.
* Does not show detailed info about the song being played the way Ipod or its rivals do. the monitor sticks to the big list and in the middle bottom of the screen astist/album/year is displayed one at a time.

THE UGLY
* terrible insensitive FM tuner. it skips stations as if they are not there when a very standard FM tuner detects them.
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If you want my suggestion:
instead of buying this. get yourself a decent AV player (Ipod video, creative M vision, ....) with a OSD monitor. and you will be on top of all of that. this product does not substitute for an mp3 player.

The sound is great as well as the video.

It is a great product for a great price.
It also has a great look in your car.
The only thing is missing is the full ipod interface.
but i don't care since i can burn my own DVD's.
Highly recommended.