can someone rate screens?

[Ryde _Or_Die 10+ year member]

I was just wondering on some unit's screen quality. Some I have in mind are eclipse, pioneer, panasonic, alpine, clarion, and kenwood. If you have experience with more than one of these and could tell me which is better than the other it would be great. Even if you only have experience with one please give your opinion. Thanks.

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[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

I was just wondering on some unit's screen quality. Some I have in mind are eclipse, pioneer, panasonic, alpine, clarion, and kenwood. If you have experience with more than one of these and could tell me which is better than the other it would be great. Even if you only have experience with one please give your opinion. Thanks.

The eclipse and alpine one's I've played with looked great.

 

[Ryde _Or_Die 10+ year member]

Hm, I kinda expect alpine and eclipse to be the best, right? What I am looking at right now is an eclipse 3423 for $800 or a pioneer avx-p7300dvd with the 9000 series "brain" unit for like $600. Which would you guys go with? I've just heard pioneer screens aren't like top-notch.

 

[elduderino 10+ year member]

There are two levels of resolution available from in-dash motorized head unit monitors (headrest and overhead monitors are a different beast, but you don't seem to be talking about them).

VGA resolution for a standard-width display is 480 lines high by 640 wide. Widescreen VGA is 800 lines wide. NOTE that this is NOT higher resolution, because it describes the screen WIDTH, and vertical lines/pixels are how we talk about resolution.

1/4 VGA is what almost every single 6.5, 5.8, and 7" widescreen LCD for cars is. That's only 234 lines high by 400 lines wide. For VCR tapes and most TV reception, that's OK.

Alpine has two units that use Toshiba's polysilicon screens which are very bright and which respond very fast. They are VGA resolution AND they are wide, so they are often called VGA-W for widescreen. I believe both of them for 2005 have an S-video input too... which is kinda important if you are trying to take advantage of a better picture.

But if you are talking about any in-dash monitors besides these two, all their resolution is the same, and the only variations would be brightness and any video performance / degradation occuring on the circuit board...

 

[LIGHTBEING 10+ year member]

I have no experince with any other unit other then my Kenwood. The picture is flawless. And I love the unit.

http://forums.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=87216

 

[slick rick 10+ year member]

i love my pioneer 6600

 

[Pistonsfan70 10+ year member]

I have the Clarion VRX935vd and it is AMAZING!! The graphics are VERY eye-catchin when only listening to the radio or cd player. The picture is AMAZING as well!! It is also VERY easy to use!! I HIGHLY recommend this screen

 

[Getwild2 10+ year member]

I wish I had a better picture but I dont. I have the Clarion VRX925VD and I love it. Looks great at all angles, super bright, super clear, great all-around picture.

http://www.alwaysjeepin.com/images/posting/ClarionDVD/DSC00020sm.jpg