Jensen VM9022HDN 6.5-Inch Touch Screen Double Din MultiMedia Receiver
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at
8:00 pm
Product Description
6.5 inch double DIN multimedia head unit with integrated navigation offering 3.5 million POI’s, text to speech engine, S.M.A.R.T – Traffic Routing in 8 languages, HD Radio, Bluetooth, Made for iPod, XM Satellite Radio Ready only, USB interface. If you want it all in one contained unit, you get it all with the VM9022HDN!!!!!
Features:
- Bluetooth, HD Radio tuner included
- SD Card reader
- USB interface
- Navigation built in
Price: $467.95
Jensen VM9022HDN 6.5-Inch Touch Screen Double Din MultiMedia Receiver
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*Bluetooth works great with my phone. Picks it up easily after you pair it.
*HD radio sounds way better than normal radio (FM sounds CD quality, AM sounds like FM). The HD takes a second or two to kick in when you tune to a station, but not a big deal, and you can notice the difference in quality.
*Plays DVDs, MP3, WMA’s, everything you need. However it doesn’t play DIVX, and although it claims it plays XVID, I have not been able to get it to recognize AVI files. So far I have to convert everything to mp2, but it plays these great. Basically before a long trip I’ll convert a bunch of AVI movies to MP2 and throw them on a DVD or USB drive and enjoy.
*Nav works great, has the voice turn-by-turn directions, you can watch the nav and listen to radio, satellite, etc. Maps are quick as they load from an SD card (there is an additional slot for another SD card as well). I don’t think it has real time traffic but the S.M.A.R.T. navigation will re-route you based on the last few years’ traffic patterns, etc., “as if you were being given directions by a local.” Not “Garmin” but who cares.
*Has inputs for SD, USB, audio in jack, and the red/white/yellow connectors. I hooked up my Sirius receiver to it via the line in and no longer have to use the FM transmitter, sounds excellent.
*Ipod connector included, however I have an Ipod classic so it only plays audio, no video/pics/album art. Hopefully this can be worked around in the future. Album art would be nice, but if you really need ipod video just get the ipod classic video out cable for under $10.
*Parking brake can be bypassed in the setup options, check youtube on how to do this under “jensen bypass”.
*Screen is plenty big and picture quality on movies is great. You can adjust the brightness and contract manually or use the autodimmer which adjusts based on the amount of light. Lights are blue colored and I do not think this can be changed.
*No detachable/self-hiding face, so you better get an alarm if you want to keep it. But if it does get stolen, at ~$600 at least you can replace it for cheaper than other models
An awesome deal that makes the commute something to look forward to.
Not gonna write a lengthy review, but just want to note that I agree with everything Ono & Allen have mentioned.
My main issue is with the navigation. I am a General Contractor an I rely heavily on the navigation to help me find job sites. I find it incomprehensible that Jensen/Audiovox supplies outdated software and maps with the unit. And on top of that, they DO NOT OFFER ANY SUPPORT TO UPDATE THE MAPS OR SOFTWARE. I’m gonna have to spend $80 to upgrade to the horizon software due to the complete lack of customer support by Jensen. This is the first product I purchased from this company….and it will definitely be my last.
CD/MP3 player; I bought this unit as an upgrade (mainly for Nav) for my 06 honda civic. A move I regret, not only was the navigation a huge dissapointment becasue it came with outdated maps, even the cd player doesn’t work well! (the most basic thing!) my factory CD player, played mp3 disc with no problems.. with this unit it takes minutes to load and when interropted by other functions it ejects and reloads, wont resume where you stopped.
SD card; long delay between audio files, and wierd loud noises at the end of music files. Its as if it read ahead and the freaks out when it reaches the end of the file. Like every function in this unit it takes forever to load.
BlueTooth; The only thing that seems to work, besides people on the other end of the call having trouble hearing me, it plays music from my phone flawlessly.. although it would be awesome if they could add the ability to display music info.
Navigation; outdated software, unituitave interface, crashes sometimes when running simultaneously with music and phone call comes in
Display; Lots of screen space utilized poorly, too bright and does not fade at night (given the effect of neon lights while driving at night, others can see inside your car as if you had lights on) will be nice if the dim feature worked without distorting the screen.
Overall; Its slow, there’s nothing slick about it, I could’ve wrote better software (and I’m not a programmer), overall poor design. I wouldn’t recommend it, save your self the headache keep your factory radio and buy a handheld GPS unit.
The sad thing about this unit is that it is so close to being great but with two many stupid idosynchorosis that could be fixed with a software update, too bad Audiovox could care less about there customers.
Navigation:
still comes with 3 year old software even though Audiovox claims they are using the Horizon navigation software now, I just bought mine 2 weeks ago and it still had the old software that my NAV101 had which I had to pay $95 to upgrade. On top of having outdated maps it lacks the ability to shut off the interuption of music to give you instructions and when it gives you instructions its far too often and kills the music for 3 seconds before it even says anything. Otherwisee the rest of it is okay.
Bluetooth:
People still have some trouble hearing me and in comparison to on-star or the pioneer bluetooth systems there is no comparison in sound quality for the person who is listing to you. It is usable and better then Valors systsm but you definatly can’t talk in normal tone and speed if you want your listener to understand you. Also every now and then with my iphone it will randomly start calling the last person I just talked too over and over again, tell I reboot the iphone. I would mention it to audiovox but I am pretty sure they couldn’t care less.
DVD Playback:
Has trouble reading Burned DVD movies. Make sure you burn them slow and use dvd-r from TDK, Sony, Or Memorex if you want your films to play. Way to sensitive for a generic unit like this.
SD Card and USB playback:
Ridiculously slow at random times. I have seen my unit take up to 30 seconds before it will start playback at the next song.
Ipod:
One of its better features but lacks a name search by letters. Who the hell would no the number of the song you are looking for, I have 4000 songs for God’s sake. If you are going to play the ipod, have playlist ready to go. Not easy to find individual songs. Though you can go to manual mode and run the ipod directly.
HD Radio:
Where do I start, the FM tuner is not sensitive enough. You can not save stations in analog, auto, or digital mode. What is the point of listing to a station if it fades in and out as you are driving or even when you are standing still? Station information is displayed in two small of an area. With a 6.5 inch screen you would think they could get singer, title, station name all on screen at the same time. Nope
XM Radio:
Would be great if everytime I turned on the car it wouldn’t have to rebuild the names of all the stations in my preset. Why not store it and keep it unless station updates happen. Bad engineering. Just like the HD Radio, With a 6.5 inch screen you would think they could get singer, title, station name all on screen at the same time. Nope
5.1 Surround Sound:
Only functions in Ipod or CD/DVD playback, you can fool it into playing 5.1 sound on any source simply by clicking on the 5.1 option in the setting but it forgets it if you change sources or turn car off. Now if the hardware is capable of it, why in the hell would you not make it available for all sources. Also the 5.1 sound option is dramaticaly quieter then the standard sound. Again a software update could fix if they cared.
Steering Wheel Control:
All online documentation says it supports PAC SWI-PS, Yes and No, It will operate from steering wheel controls but does random glitches in the 2006 Nissan Altima it was installed in it changed the radio station by .3 MHz ever time the car was started and some times the radio would be off on a car restart. These problems go away when the PAC SWI-PS gets disconnected. When I told audiovox of the problem they said they are aware of it and recommend me another PAC adapter that requires and infared transmitter and wire be facing your stereo, this after hours installing the other one.
Conclusion:
This unit if fully polished could have been the best deck ever but Audiovox just doesn’t want to put in the extra effort to make the software better, they give old maps to the data, sub par microphone for bluetooth and terrible customer service. I have also dealt with Valor and those are some of the best people I have ever worked with and recommend them over anything Audiovox/Jense/Advent makes.