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Jensen VM9313 7-inch Touch Screen MultiMedia Receiver
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and i am very pleased with it. it has a lot of great options on it and
the sound is amazing! i would defiantly recommend this stereo. it wasn't
to hard to install ether.
Jensen stereos are made by Audiovox in China, and I have owned other Audiovox products and were dissapointed in their quality, but not this deck, and with all the features this deck had, I was a bit apprehensive as to how good it would be. I took my chance and found it to be built really nice! On the road, I like being able to load 4.7 GB of MP3's onto a single DVD and play it in the deck, and it gives great sound quality with little compression artifacts if 192 bit rate or higher is used. I camp out in my van frequently too, and this deck is excellent for watching a movie before turning in. The audio quality on movies is quite impressive! The audio amplifier has plenty of headroom to give plenty of "punch" to the sound in both movies and in music. The video screen gives a pretty good looking picture
I DEFINITELY recommend getting the bluetooth module with this deck if you make a lot of phone calls on the road. You can dial using the large 10key pad on the touchscreen or from your phone book...much easier than those little buttons on the phone. The incoming audio comes through the stereo speakers and is much easier to understand than the tinny speakers on the phone, again a good safety feature since you will need less brainpower to interpret what your caller is speaking about. People I speak to on this stereo say they didn't even know I was using a speakerphone!
I only have a few minor gripes about this deck. The biggest is the fact that there is no night dimmer, nor is there any way to reduce the brightness of the touchscreen's backlight. When driving at night, the touchscreen will need to be folded up, or the glare will be a bit annoying. It would also be nice if the touchscreen layout was reversed. The buttons and controls need to be swapped, placing the list on the right, and buttons on the left, to be closer to the driver. I would also like the DVD controls to appear on the screen while the vehicle is in motion. The way it is now, when the vehicle is in motion while a video DVD is played, the stereo just gives a "blue screen of death" while playing only the audio (video is still sent to the external monitor output so passengers in the rear can watch) My last gripe is that the "steps" in the speaker fader needs to be much finer. Another annoying thing is that in order to engage the rear-view camera, you must go back to the main menu and select "rear view", which cuts off whatever you were listening too. The steps adjust way to dramatically to get a good even balance on the speakers. My only other wish list is that in the future model of this deck, Jensen should include a Digital TV tuner in it too!
In all, this is a really great stereo that I highly recommend for anyone that has a van, SUV or other large passenger-carrying vehicle and does a lot of traveling and enjoys some on-the-road entertainment!
I think the construction is okay. But, I don't see how you can make a more robust device given the space constraints in a car's dashboard. I suspect that it will last only a year or two before the flip up screen breaks. But, at least everything will continue to work except the DVD player.
The interface is somewhat intuitive, and it took use about 45 minutes to figure out all the whats and hows of the touchscreen. Given the space on the screen, it bewilders me that more help text or less abbreviations are used. Honestly, if I have to go to a manual to use a touchscreen device, it needs some reengineering of the interface. Oh, did I mention my job is creating user interfaces and workflows for complex business processes on web-based applications? The interface needs work.
My biggest complaint is around all the wires attached to this receiver. They should have designed all the plugs with a way to detach them from the receiver. We used less than half of all the available connections. We had to tape the unused wires in just the right places to fit the receiver in to the dash. Since most of them have RCA jacks, it was a difficult task.
Overall, for the price, this is a cool toy for you or your kids.
1. No dimmer on the screen other than just "brightness" - there's no "nighttime" setting so when you're using the menu at night it's far too bright for the dash of your car.
2. iPod? I don't think so... Connected my iPod through the using the appropriate cables purchased through the installer - plugged in the iPod and it is VERY glitchy... will play a song and then start randomly stalling... sometimes it will play about 10 seconds of a song then move on... MOST of the time - it just locks up and wont play - just keeps trying different songs on the list but failing to play any of them... then all the sudden it starts on a completely different song. VERY FRUSTRATING.
3. Scroll buttons (up and down scrollbar on the right) are TINY - almost impossible to navigate while driving. More often than not - you wind up hitting just above the microscopic arrow to the space above it and it auto-scrolls you to the very bottom of your list.
4. HD-Radio function - cant seem to turn it off... it automatically tries to search out or convert every station you tune to - to HD-radio... but some of my local stations - the regular radio is great but their HD sucks... Also - it seems like there's a bit of delay to HD radio - so while it's swapping between HD radio & regular - it skips forward and backward in the broadcasts... VERY annoying - I'd rather just turn HD off... but menu settings dont have that option.
5. Jensen as a company - When I complained about how poorly the iPod selection was functioning - they said they could take a look at the system, however I'd have to remove the system entirely from my car - then have it shipped to their facility and then the repair could take up to 4 weeks. So that means I have to PAY to have it removed - PAY to have another or the original system put BACK in - PAY to ship the stereo - on TOP of me being out of the system I already PAID for - for a month? Jensen doesnt have any agreements with any large-name retailers or stereo manufacturers to where they could service?
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