Looking to buy a indash

[bigman411 10+ year member]

Not really a price range. I want a dvd player indash. Is it really worth it to get navi? The pioneer is so slow loading mp3 cd and just scrolling around. What other ones are there that are good or compare?

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[azbass 5,000+ posts]

if you have a double din. Eclipse. hands down.

 

[walkychalky 10+ year member]

iva-d310 loads an mp3 dvd in about 5 seconds. navigating is pretty quick.
im gonna get me one eventually. for now i have an iva-d300... pretty much the same thing but the 310 has a few subtle upgrades...

does that have navigation too?

 

[Savstyle 10+ year member]

there somone in the clasified sellin a pioneer D1 for 850, and i love those things

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

iva-d310 loads an mp3 dvd in about 5 seconds. navigating is pretty quick.
im gonna get me one eventually. for now i have an iva-d300... pretty much the same thing but the 310 has a few subtle upgrades...

That doesnt have built in navigation. Thats like the middle version, what about the IVA-D901? The more expensive one doesnt even look good. But this indash when the dash is closed u cant even really control it like a regular cd player.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

do you have a double din in your dash?

if so look in to this http://www.eclipse-web.com/avn5495-index.html

if not look in to this http://www.eclipse-web.com/avn-index.html

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

do you have a double din in your dash?
if so look in to this http://www.eclipse-web.com/avn5495-index.html

if not look in to this http://www.eclipse-web.com/avn-index.html

I dont have double din, hahaha I knew u would find that one. I saw that one you cant even get that cheap off ebay. Its like $2000 straight up.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

probably the best 2000 you can pay. iv used no better unit

 

[snebes 10+ year member]

probably the best 2000 you can pay. iv used no better unit

What other units have you used? i was planning on spending a day (not really) travelling around to different stores trying to play with a lot of them. I had an AVIC-N2 for a week but it was damaged by UPS, so I got it claimed and got money for it. It has been really the only unit that I have somewhat played with that had navigation. I want to find Pioneers' AVH-P7600DVD to play with, but no store I know has one, or even sells it. It also is not upgradeable with a GPS slave unit, as of yet, so I don't know if that would be a viable option.

another option i have considered was to use a "slave" carputer to run GPS software, but that is a lot of work...and the pioneer has the option to use XM's navtraffic info, which is cool cause i am driving in chicago-area all the time and always seem to find traffic, but i can't get that in a carputer i don't think.

I wish i knew somewhere i could play with those eclipse units too, they look hot, but they are expensive...

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

Now I am more interested in the Alpine IVA-D310? When the dash is closed, why does alpine make kind of crappy technology for lcd display? It looks like block letters, not like clean writing. Also where are the track selecting buttons when closed?

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

Also, Alpine IVA-D310 doesnt come with built in navi right? If I got navi, then the monitor is not touch screen navi I heard?

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

its not built in. i dont have nav on mine because it wasnt touch, and i have been waiting for touch... and it turns out they just released it (i just checked alpine-usa.com) so YES //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif its touch now! wooohooo

The navi for the deck is like another 1,000 or more. So thats more than 2k just for a indash and navi while the pionner is like 1100 with navi, but its slow and it sucks.

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

um....why would you ever have the thing closed?

You dont want people to know you have a indash sometimes. Also why would I want it open 24/7. So there is no track buttons when its closed. What is wrong with alpine? People like to use it as a regular cd player when its closed. Also some people said you cant see the time display when its closed.

 

[skmfkr 5,000+ posts]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ECLIPSE-AV3423-DVD-CD-MP3-7-TOUCH-SCREEN-LIKE-NEW-NR_W0QQitemZ5835300126QQcategoryZ32825QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Eclipse-AV3423-IN-DASH-DVD-SCREEN-PLAYER-TOUCH-SCREEN_W0QQitemZ5833849929QQcategoryZ32825QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[bigman411 10+ year member]

um, whatever you say partner.
i never close mine. the whole purpose of having the screen is so i have a big easily-navigable GUI to play my music from.

Even so if you keep it open, dont u think its kind of annoying to keep touching the screen to go to the next track? Why are there always flaws/cons in any indash?