Tekkeon NavDock for iPod (Silver/Black)

by Tekkeon

Product Details

User Manual [1.54mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 6.7 x 3 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0012UZEEO
• Item model number: ND2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Tekkeon's NavDock home media center lets you navigate your iPod through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos, and music on a connected television. NavDock browses directly through your iPod menus, so finding and playing music and videos is easy. And you can use the 16-button remote to adjust or mute volume, shuffle, repeat or skip songs, and fast forward or rewind through music or videos. The remote offers a five-way navigation pad and quick keys that jump directly to the videos, photos, music, or settings menus.

With NavDock, you have complete control. You can change the language, menu color scheme to fit your mood, or navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or display the lyrics to your favorite songs. And for your personalized screensaver, you can display the album art for the current song.

Dock Features

• Remote navigation of videos and music via on-TV menu
• Play slideshow on TV
• Now playing screen with album art, song info, and status bar
• Viewable song lyrics
• On-screen display of iPod user name
• User-adjustable screen savers
• Customizable color schemes
• Access to equalizer presets
• Multilingual menu: English, Spanish, Japanese
• Charges iPod
• Stereo audio output
• Composite and S-Video output

Remote Control Functions

• One-touch mode selector for videos, photos, music, and settings
• Five-way navigation pad
• Home key
• Volume control
• Mute
• Play/pause
• Skip next/back
• Fast forward/backware
• Shuffle
• Repeat

What's in the Box
NavDock, remote conrol, 6-foot AV output cable, three Universal dock adapters, power adapter, User guide

Product Description

NavDock Home Media Center with On-TV Navigation for iPod lets you navigate your iPod through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos, and music on a connected television. With NavDock you have complete control. You can change the language, the menu color scheme to fit your mood, or the navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or diplay the lytics or album art that apperas next to your songs in the Now Playing screen in motion as your personalized screensaver. Please visit www.tekkeon.com for more information and support.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good buy, February 21, 2008

By 

Dale Hoskisson "I'm right" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tekkeon NavDock for iPod (Silver/Black) (Electronics)

This dock performs it's advertised functions very well. I get solid, smooth sound and picture in as good a quality as can be expected given the iPod input and the dock's connection options (composite and S-video). The ability to navigate the iPod's music and video menus on screen place it well above other dock options including Apple's own Universal Dock. For those looking for some info on this device that may not be documented...

Pros (besides the obvious good stuff like menu navigation and comprehensive remote functionality):
- Very quick to start up and connect.
- The iPod can be removed from the dock at any time (playing or paused) without any bad effects.
- Displays album art.
- The dock screensaver can display your currently playing music track information and album art.
- Full shuffle and repeat options for playlists.
- Useful shortcuts on the remote to get to music and videos (and photos, but I don't use that feature).

Cons (no deal-breakers here in my opinion, just stuff that could be better):
- Movie list is ordered by the date they were added to the iPod, not alphabetically.
- You have to wait till the album art loads to skip a song.
- Oddly, any song you navigate to and play will not start until after the album art loads (7 or 8 seconds), but subsequent songs begin immediately.
- If your movie file has chapter markers, too bad, this dock won't see them. Fast-forward and reverse are your only options.
- Dock doesn't display the video playlists.
- Your ratings aren't displayed anywhere, and if you want to rate something you have to remove the iPod from the dock, rate and it, and re-dock it.

I consider this a very good buy.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars iPod on TV?, February 5, 2009

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H. Miller "hanahal" (Phila, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tekkeon NavDock for iPod (Silver/Black) (Electronics)

I have an Onkyo receiver and Onkyo makes an iPod dock and was prepared to buy it. But I did a little more research to see if I could find reviews for it and other products. It seemed that the Tekkeon NavDock had more positive comments. So I ordered the Tekkeon. Now this is more for my wife as it was for her iPod. To be honest, I was not at all familier with the iPod features but knew that the Tekkeon supported the iPod Nano 3rd Generation.

Connecting the Tekkeon Navdock was straightforward enough. I have quite a few connections on my receiver and had to juggle a few devices as I needed a free auxillary input that also had composite video available.

It's a good thing my daughter also has an iPod so I was able to compare the two on the Navdock. When I had my wife's iPod connected, we had to turn the volume on the amplifier way up in order to hear the music on the iPod. This did not seem right to me. In fact, I called both Tekkeon and Onkyo in search of a solution. That's when trial and error troubleshooting stepped in. I "docked" my daughter's iPod and discovered her iPod played without any volume issues. The iPods are identical.

That's when I paid a visit to Apple's web site and read a bit about the possible causes. There are two settings on the iPod Nano 3G. The first one is a maximum volume setting. we made sure that setting was set to its maximum. But there was also another rather unusual setting, Volume Leveling. This setting normalizes the volume regardless of the song that is playing. This was the culprit. Once I disabled this setting, viola!, the iPod played at a normal volume level with the volume of the amplifier as a normal setting as well.

I explained all of this in case anyone runs into a similar situation. I believe that the results would have been similar regardless of docking solution.

Lastly, my only complaint, and I have not compared this to any other dock to know if this would happen in all solutions, but the iPod when docked only displays the Tekkeon logo relegating all display to the TV. So you have to turn on the TV at least initially to select your play list. Of course, if you have album art or lyrics associated with your music, you may want to see them displayed on the TV. Plus if you have videos on your iPod, you can watch them through the Tekkeon as well.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works better than expected for Ipod Touch 2G!, December 29, 2008

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David A. Hoffman (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tekkeon NavDock for iPod (Silver/Black) (Electronics)

I have searched high and low for a dock and remote that is suitable for the Ipod Touch. There simply isn't anything on the market that seems to have full compatibility with the iPod Touch, and I got very frusrated with all the caveats on the different products I looked at. I finally broke down and decided to go with the Tekkeon NavDock, which wasn't perfect but seemed to get close.

Once I got it (just got it for Christmas), I was pleasantly surprised with how well it worked with the iPod Touch 2G (I also have 2.2 Firmware)!

The music works like a charm, and I had expected the music to work well. I can get to all my playlists, shuffle, and do everything you would expect to be able to do. And, I have been able to even see my album cover art too, which you aren't supposed to be able to do with the Touch -- but it works!

The photos feature is not 100% compatible with the Touch. However, I am able to setup a slideshow on the Touch screen and port the output through the NavDock ... an extra step, but it works quite well once the slideshow is going. I don't need to control my photo slideshows with the remote anyway. The photos are a bonus for me, not a need.

Now the real surprise -- the videos are working perfectly for me. I am able to navigate through my movies and TV shows WITH THE REMOTE AND ON THE SCREEN. I don't have to go over to the iPod itself to select and play a movie. Everything I read (even on the Tekkeon site) said that this would not work with the remote. But, it does. And, that is why I had to come write this review and give 5 stars. I am thrilled that I am able to navigate both my videos and my music through the NavDock with the remote. And the video is beautiful on my big screen TV... its so much better than I would have anticipated.

I just love this thing! If you are looking for a dock for the Ipod Touch 2G, this one is probably as good as you are going to find. There isn't a perfect one out there, but this one comes darn close.

There are some reviews that talked about the menus being slow. I will attest, that the menus are a tad sluggish from time to time, but its not that bad -- for the most part, the menus and cover art come up faster than the other reviews imply.

This one is a winner!