Car DVD Or Swiss Army Knife?

High Powered Car DVD Motorized Player – Touchscreen + Bluetooth
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Anybody who does work on a vehicle these days will spend a lot of time going backwards and forwards from the auto accessory shop. Irregardless of what is being done to the vehicle, be it customisation or just car maintenance, it seems that there is always a big list of components or tools that the person doesn’t have any of or doesn’t have enough of. Car electronics are exactly the same, so it is nice when a product comes along that needs little in the way of components.

US consumers spent $34 million on car components last year according to the Speciality Accessory Manufacturers Association (SEMA), the US industry body for manufacturers of car accessories. With almost everybody looking to customise their vehicle in some way there must have been a lot of trips back and forward from the auto spares shop.

Electrical components for cars are no different, SEMA reported that $10 million of the total $34 million spend was solely on electronic devices and device components for the car. While much of that spend would be on big-ticket items like car DVD’s and blue tooth phone kits it would be interesting to see how much of the $10 million was spent on things like screens and cameras, let alone the wires, tools, and brackets needed to fit the components to the car. Car DVD players sold separately from the screen can sometimes come with a bigger shopping list than people expect.

Sometimes people who buy plug in and play automotive DVD‘s can find their choices of what can be plugged into the system are limited, reducing the functionality of a gadget which has great potential. Thankfully every now and again a car in dash DVD player comes along which combines the convenience of ‘plug in and play’ with a good number of inputs and outputs.

The model above is one such product. Not only does the system feature high resolution DVD and high definition sound, with excellent noise reduction but it combines it with more ins and outs than Chinese copyright law. Everything from an IPod, to a SD card, a USB and backing camera can be plugged into the system at one time, with four speaker outputs guaranteeing fantastic surround sound. When all that is combined with bluetooth capability, touch screen technology, a TV tuner and a motorised screen it creates an automotive DVD player for almost any purpose.

China Manufacturer Specification

• Discs/ Formats Played:
  • DVD, VCD, SVCD, CD, HD-CD, CD-R/RW, MP3, MP4, DivX, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, JPEG
  • Video System: PAL, NTSC
• Video Selection
  • Screen: 7 Inch TFT LCD
  • Video System: 4:3, 16:9
  • Video Output Level: 1Vp-p 75Ohm
  • Horizontal Resolution: 500 TV Lines
• TV Section
  • Color System: NTSC (M,N), PAL (I, M, N), SECAM (DK)
• Audio Section
  • Max Power Output: MOSFET 50W x 4
  • Signal-To-Noise Ration SNR: 45dB
• Input/ Output
  • x4 Audio OUT
  • AV R + L IN
  • RCA IN
  • RCA OUT
  • Back UP Camera IN
  • iPod Firewire IN
• AM Tuner Section
  • Frequency Range: 522~1620KH
• FM Tuner Section
  • Tuning Range: 87.5~108.0MHz
• Manufacturer Ref.: 5OSF2H6VN9JT

Other Features:

• Touch Screen
• Bluetooth (including A2DP)
• Fully Motorized Adjustable Front Panel
• SD Card Reader
• USB Port
• Adjustable Bass/ Treble/ Balance/ Fader/ Color/ Sharp/ Bright/ Contrast
• EQ Mode
• Time Display When Panel Closed