Jensen VM9311TS – DVD player with LCD monitor and AM/FM tuner
Product Description
Audiovox became a pioneer in the wireless industry, selling its first vehicle-installed wireless telephones in 1984 as a natural expansion of its automotive aftermarket business. Its extensive distribution network and its long-standing industry relationships have allowed Audiovox to benefit from growing market opportunities in the wireless industry and to exploit niches in the consumer electronics business.PRODUCT FEATURES:CD/DVD/MP3/WMA/iPod and XM Ready Receiver with Fully Motorized 7″ Wide Touch Screen;160 Watts Peak Power (40 Watts x 4);jLinkDirect – High speed direct connect interface for playlists, albums, artists, songs, photos, videos;Charge and control your iPod directly for the radio;Intuitive iPod interface;GIGA MP3′s/WMA’s – Burn up to 999 MP3′s or WMAs on a DVD;Compatible formats: DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, CD-DA, MP3, WMA, SVCD, VCD, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2 & JPEG;336,960 Pixels (1440W x 234H);Front, Rear and Subwoofer pre-amp outputs;1-pair Auxiliary RCA A/V inputs;1 NTSC composite video output for additional screens;Full function infrared remote control (Included);16-step TFT LCD tilt adjustment.
Features:
- Condition – BRAND NEW IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING
- Warranty – 2 YEAR
- Manufacturer – JENSEN
- Audio/Video Outputs – 1 set
- Aux Input – yes
Price: $220.57
Jensen VM9311TS – DVD player with LCD monitor and AM/FM tuner
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I picked up this unit without high expectations, but was very surprised with the quality of this unit for the price.
The audio and video quality is superb. It wasn’t installed in a vehicle with a full “system”, but a plain old minivan. It replaced a 1995 Dodge Caravan factory cassette deck. Yeah, yeah I know.
Why did I wait so long? I used an MP3 player with a RF modulator, so I didn’t care about the cassette deck. My Rio Karma MP3 player served its purpose for over a year until the cassette mechanism finally took a crap on me, so it was time to purchase a new deck.
I contemplated the idea of just picking up any CD/MP3 deck, but figured why not spend some extra cash and have a new toy that I can enjoy?
Installation was a breeze and I had it installed, wired, and running in less than 30 minutes. The dash in my van is easy to work with, so you mileage may very for ease of installation. There’s nothing special about installing this unit when compared to a standard deck.
Now on to the pro’s and con’s of the VM9311TS:
Pro’s:
- First and foremost is the price. You will not find any unit with the features this unit has for this price range!
- Audio and Video quality: playback of DivX, XviD, MPEG’s, and standard DVD’s are crystal clear. No noticeable pixilation, fading, etc.
- Using the touch screen to navigate through DVD’s is very user friendly.
- While not an iPod user yet, the ability to connect your iPod to the unit and have full control over it using the touch screen is a big plus. I actually caved in and bought an 80GB iPod Video. I haven’t received it yet, but I am looking forward to getting it. I’m dumping my entire 40GB music collection onto the iPod along with all my episodes of Lost, Prison Break, Family Guy, etc onto one piece of hardware. The ability to fully the iPod using the touch screen is a big plus!
- Full set of audio and video outputs. You can connect this unit to your external amp, subs, etc.
- Full set of audio video inputs. You can plug in your video camera to review what you’ve recorded, Xbox, PlayStation, and anything else with a standard composite (RCA) yellow jack output.
Con’s:
- Navigating a DVD full of MP3 is extremely tedious. Here’s why… You get a full dump of EVERYTHING on your screen. You can’t navigate by Album, Artist, Year, etc. So if I have a MP3 album of Anita Baker and an MP3 album of Usher I actually have to “click” the directory button over 50 times until I get to the artists with their name’s being closer the end of the alphabet. You can also use the soft button on the screen to the next directory, but even then you have to press it over 50 times to get through your entire collection. I called Jensen and they confirmed that yes “you have to navigate through all the albums until you get to what you want.
- To make things worse you can not fast-forward or rewind MP3′s. This was also confirmed by Jensen.
- I burned a DVD of all the current Prison Break episodes which were in DivX format. They played back beautifully, but here’s the most irritating problem. As soon as you turn off your deck (i.e. turn of your car) the video will start playing over again from the beginning. You can skip over to the next video file on the disc, but again, after power-cycling your vehicle the deck will start over with the first file on the disc.
- As with the MP3′s you can not fast-forward or rewind individual video files. This was confirmed by Jensen.
- No ability to change the look of what I call the operating system (OS). You can’t change the wallpaper, color scheme, etc. What you see is what you get.
- Navigating through a DVD burned with hundreds if not thousands of MP3′s is extremely slow. The OS definitely needs tweaking and enhancements, so I’m hoping that Jensen releases firmware updates in the future.
- Every time you turn your vehicle off and restart it, it takes up to 40 seconds before the track you were listening to resumes on a DVD-R. Navigating and resuming playback with a standard 700MB CD-R is faster when re-starting your vehicle.
So with all the cons aside it’s still a pretty nice unit for the price. When the iPod arrives I’ll post an update and let you guys know what I think.
It’s unfortunate that I had to plunk down another $330 just to get the deck to be more user friendly and functional, but my hands are tied.
For somebody not looking to use the more advanced features such as playback of DivX files this deck is perfect for them. Remember that you can’t fast-forward or rewind MP3′s, so that may irritate even the non-techie.
So with review coming to an end I give this unit a 3 out of 5.
George
I bought this unit and installed it into my Tucson 2005 before Christmas. It enhanced my factory speaker system (with subwoofer) a lot, beating the Bose speaker system in my friend’s Infinity G35. The DVD movie plays smoothly even when I’m driving (of course, you’ve got to enter some hacking code to bypass the no-video-playing-while-driving nonsense). Wy wife can now enjoy her huge collection of DVD movies in any long trips. I simply enjoy tons of music on DVD when driving alone.
Only 4 stars because it was stuck at some MP3′s writen on DVD. It is also a hassle to install its media module for IPOD and XM radio (but why do I need them if I can put my collection of 10k MP3′s on several DVD’s?).
Excellent… but you need to enter a dvd movie an press stop (x2), enter the code 1264 (secret menu to multizone, handbrake, etc), down (1 time with control) and 1 to rigth to unlock the hand brake protection… but it nice and the video resolution its so good.
very good dvd car player. I bought it because the price and looks. (a pioneer it’s twice expensive) let’s see if the player will work just it’s looks…
Great LCD touch-screen. Almost everything I hoped for. Just hoped for a little more MP3 song support. Wish it would base the interface for sorting songs on the ID3 tags instead of the file name. Also, I don’t know if this is a problem with my player or my amp. Occasionally, my amp would not turn on. Sometimes, I have to turn it on and off a couple of times to actually kick the amp on. Other than that, very good player.