Customer Reviews

Dual XDVD8182 In-Dash DVD Receiver with 7-Inch Touchscreen and Full iPod Interface

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fast service from discount jungle. easy to output to additional monitor. my kids love it. search web to add code to disable safety feature to watch while driving. Went to crutchfield to get the installation accessories. It works well with ipod video, although i need to encode at a higher definition.For the price, great value and product. Planning to buy another one for my other vehicle.

I received mine and installed. It has good sound even with my car's stock speakers. The screen has very low resolution and on high lightning days is hard to see. The really bad news were that its touch screen is crazy or something. It doesnt work correctly, some commands doesn't work. In ipod mode in order to navigate I push over and over the root botton on the screen and it simply restarts the current song. I hope amazon refunds to me. I buyed this because its lot of features (ipod control) and cause it is cheap too. But take this advice. Stay away for it. In forums very few people talk or know anything about it. It is a ultra low end product. Thats the reason similar products cost double cash. I wrote to manufacturer asking for support 2 weeks ago and still waiting for answer.

For an inexpensive head unit it is great. Sound quality was great with over the air but only ok with cds which was very disappointing. Other than that movies looked and sounded great, easy to use, ipod function mostly worked (don't waste your time with that, just use the headphone jack), and the camera was nice.

great price but u get what your paid, it only last 6 months and then is dead, company support do not respond

its a disposable stereo

This is excellent, My wife wants now to get another for her car, The only detail I find is that you can only control de Ipod music from the stereo, I think this is more confortable if you control the ipod music directly from the ipod screen and not from the Stereo screen. I kept the original car saound and it got much better with this stereo. I feel satisfied.

The player worked great and was a decent deal for the money... Had a couple problems though.... I would put in a dvd and it would sound like the player was tearing itself apart figured out that the wiring was screwy and i fixed that so it worked perfectly... I really hate the "safety" feature on the device which makes it so you have to put parking brake on/off/on/off/on (quickly i found works better) and leave it for 10 secs before the actuall picture would go through or you have to do it again. I found if you just ground the cable to the frame (test if there's any current going through frame, OR THIS WONT WORK!!!!) wire a spare wire/cable to frame then wire the other end to a switch and the other side of the switch to the yellow ground cable they give you that goes into stereo. Then to play movies just flick the switch franticly and then turn to "off" position it should play unless you did something wrong. I did it because I dont know about you but using the brake is a hassle and if your on a hill its just a pain to do... just be smart DONT PLAY MOVIES WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a couple more things is that the screen is very touchy and will crack easy. and the motor that makes screen come out usually will die after a year of use. BUY THE INSURANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $40 for 4 years is worth the cost!!! I used to work at Best Buy and this item (and almost all dual and kenwood) has the highest return rate. Dont say i didnt warn you when it dies in a year maybe two if your lucky, and then you've basically thrown $400 away.

This Dvd player is great, it looks pretty and its very easy to use.
I love it.
Thanks!

I bought this dual 8182 in Jan o7 and never really played dvd's or cd's since I use my ipod for music video's and music. I decided to put a dvd in today-months after, only to find out the thing does not accept any kind of disc it just keeps ejecting repeatedly after failing to read them,so for anyone who's looking at a dual and c's my review please take warning its not worth the risk even for the cheap price.

Install was fairly easy and the DVD player works well. The remote is hard to use as all the buttons feel the same and are arranged in a grid.
If you plan to use the remote in the dark you need to turn on a light to see it first.

The MP3 DVD/CD option is nice and the capacity to hold 1500 songs on a DVD is awesome. However the shuffle option is poor and it won't play songs listed higher than #250 during the shuffle. Even if you place the MP3's into folders it looks at all of them as they were loaded into one giant folder and stays below #250 during shuffle.

The ability to play from an iPod and use the adapter works well.

The touch screen has the ability to brighten and dim but the stereo face when the screen is closed is bright blue. It doesn't dim and is often distracting.

All in all I like this product but think that it lacks a lot of the small things that would make it more user friendly.