Pioneer MVH-P8200 Multimedia AV Receiver with 3 In. Color Display
Product Description
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“Mech-free” receivers are all the rage lately, as more and more consumers migrate their music and media collections to hard drives rather than physical media. The MVH-P8200 from Pioneer is one of the company’s first mech-free receivers, and has plenty to offer the digital-centric crowd. Enjoy direct control of your iPod, with simple navigation and search features. Play back MP3/WMA/AAC audio files, DivX video, and even JPEG images from USB devices or SD memory cards. You can even tag songs heard on the radio for later purchase. It’s all conducted via the simple “Rotary Commander” control and simple user interface displayed on the unit’s three-inch display.
 | Pioneer Car Audio SystemsPioneer’s Mobile Business Group is known for offering the kind of in-car products that make driving more enjoyable by offering high quality audio and video, seamless connectivity and ease-of-use. Its focus is on the development of new digital technologies including audio video, navigation and satellite radio, while maintaining its strong heritage in products for car audio enthusiasts and sound competitors. |
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 Rear A/V RCA input, three 4V RCA preamp outputs, steering wheel remote input, and video out for system expansion. |
 Intuitive touchscreen controls. |
 Scroll through your music with greater ease using the 7-way rotary commander. |
MVH-P8200 Features
Smart Interface for Quick Access
Pioneer’s new user interface has a minimal yet powerful design, and scales to accommodate modern media sources easily. Tailor it to your own preferences with the customizable home menu, putting your favorite features right at your fingertips.
USB Input / SD Memory Card Slot
Connect USB thumb drives or other devices and enjoy playback of your digital audio and video files. Ditto for SD memory cards. This makes it a breeze to quickly grab some media from your computer before a big road trip, and enjoy hours of entertainment on the road.
iPod Direct Control (CD-IU50V required)
Connect your iPod directly and experience exceptional sound quality while easily navigating through music, videos and album art on the AVH-P5200BT’s screen. Say goodbye to the annoying static of FM transmitters and other iPod half-solutions.
Simple Search for iPod lets you quickly search your iPod/iPhone with alphabetical search by Song, Artist, Album or Genre categories.
MP3/WMA/AAC Playback
Play back three of the most popular digital audio formats: MP3, WMA, and AAC. The MVH-8200′s screen displays track info, and makes navigating directories/folders a breeze.
Video/JPEG Playback for Non-Stop Entertainment
The MVH-8200 features a three-inch color display designed to take full advantage of all of your media. Play music videos and more from your iPod/iPhone, or from SD memory cards/USB devices. The MVH-8200 can decode Divx (AVI or DIVX extensions) video. You can even display JPEG photos using the Digital Photo Frame feature.
Auto EQ
Automatically tailors acoustics by fine-tuning frequency bandwidths plus front/rear speaker digital parametric equalization. Result: smooth sound full of subtle nuance and clarity. Requires optional CD-MC20 microphone.
Customize Your Colors
The MVH-P8200 will accommodate your taste or mood. Select from six colors (blue/violet/red/amber/green/white) for the display, and 112 colors for key panel illumination.
Connect, Tag, and Download
Have you ever heard a great song on the radio, but couldn’t remember what it was called or who sang it when you went to go look for it later? Now you don’t have to worry about missing out on great music. iTunes Tagging gives you the power to “tag” all of your favorite songs without having to scramble for a piece of scrap paper in the car, then later preview or purchase music at iTunes Music Store. Works with stations transmitting RDS data.
Bring Your Music to Life with Advanced Sound Retriever
This year you can hear the detail, warmth, and clarity the way the artist intended it, from all of the highly compressed MP3, WMA and AAC files playing on your CD player. By restoring data that tends to get lost in the digital compression process, we can make your music sound close to CD quality.
Supertuner IIID AM/FM Tuner
Pioneer’s legendary Supertuner IIID combines the best of digital and analog tuner technologies to reduce distortion to bring you exceptional FM and AM performance. If you live in an area where reception is weak, you’ll hear a big improvement in signal strength. And when you’re near tall buildings, Supertuner IIID reduces the effect of multi-path noise, which occurs when the signal is reflecting off of the buildings.
Always have your favorite stations at hand with 18 FM and 6 AM user presets. And when you’re somewhere new, let the tuner do the work for you by activating the Best Stations Memory (BSM) function. The tuner will seek out the 6 strongest stations in the area and set them into the tuner presets.
MOSFET 50W x4 Amplifier for the Power Hungry
Compared to conventional power supplies, the MOSFET amplification circuit is smaller and more efficient, delivering power with less distortion and absolutely zero on/off switching noise. And that doesn’t just mean a boost in volume: it means that your music will be cleaner at higher volumes because you’re not pushing the limits of the amplification circuit. Clean, efficient power that will rock your vehicle.
For those who’d like a bit more power, three 4V RCA preamp outputs are also included for system expansion (front/rear/sub).
MVH-P8200 Basic Specs
| iPod Playback: | Audio/Video (Cable Required) |
| DVD Playback: | – |
| USB Input: | Yes |
| Sound Retriever: | Yes |
| Bluetooth: | – |
| Navigation Ready: | – |
| Display: | Three-Inch LCD |
| Rear Camera Ready: | – |
| RCA Preamp Outputs: | Three Sets (4 volt) |
| HD Radio Ready: | Yes |
| SAT Radio Ready: | Yes |
| Power: | MOSFET 50W x 4 |
What’s in the Box
Pioneer MVH-P8200 Receiver, Wiring Harness, Installation Hardware, Owner’s Manual
Features:
- Single-DIN AM/FM radio, MP3/WMA/AAC, DivX, JPG, USB, iPod receiver
- 4 x 50 Watts maximum power with three 4V RCA preamp outputs
- Three-inch widescreen LCD display with 1440 x 240 pixel resolution
- Front panel mini A/V input, USB input
- Add Pioneer components for SAT/HD radio
Price: $265.00
Pioneer MVH-P8200 Multimedia AV Receiver with 3 In. Color Display
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Pros
-Sleek, clean interface
-Plays music, video, and images
-Great sound
-Great customization (appearance and sound)
Negatives
-No support for artwork on USB devices (save the iPod)
-Needs ridges on side of knob for easier grip
-Sometimes the knob can be hard to push straight in
Overall, I’m happy with this unit. The installation was pretty straightforward. It’s easily one of the more customizable units on the market. You can adjust the background, screen color, button color, 8 different EQ settings, including using the 5 that they give you already.
One thing that bugs me is that it doesn’t support artwork out of a USB device. It’ll display artwork from an iPod but not a USB device. For being a media-centric device, this should be a big embarrassment for Pioneer. I was sorely disappointed when it wouldn’t work, especially since all of my music is properly tagged with ID3 tags.
The second problem is lack of an HD radio. This is a hefty price to pay for a radio where they saved money by taking the CD player out.
For those reasons, I gave it a 4 out of 5.
Otherwise it’s a pretty nice unit that definitely stands apart from the rest. The clean look along with the ability to play music, videos, and photos from USB devices OR the SD card is quite nice. The multi-control knob is actually quite nice and makes for easy adjustment of many settings. And once you get a hang of the home list, operating this is a piece of cake.
There’s a reason I stick with Pioneer and this unit proves why. The sound quality is unparalleled. I have no problem recommending this unit.
Edit: One other thing that I want to mention is that other than the standard guidelines (so many folders, so many files, etc.) that this radio will handle (at least) up to a 16GB flash drive (more from what I read, with people actually hooking up 60+GB portable hard drives) and a 16GB SD card. I had previously read that the limit on the SD card was 2GB but this is not true; my 16GB card borrowed from my XSi worked beautifully.
Title says it all. The rotary commander is precise and if you don’t feel the joystick it is no fun. If you do, you can not by a better radio for the money….
Specs. are right there and on mark; it has done everything I’ve wanted it to do and has neat ipod shuffle options. You can use your standard ipod cable directly in to the faceplate USB connection. also Pick out your favorite menu options and put them a side click away. Clean looks, fun EQ, LED mood settings. Looks soo clean in dark interior cars, uncluttered sleek deep shine you just want in you dash!
no ones’ perfect…not a big fan that the screen never turns completely off, until the is car off. Hasn’t drained my battery tho. I would just like to turn the screen off when im not using it. slight learning curve for non tech savvy people.
Short and Sweet
Mike
The unit sounds great. I love the hidden SD card that I can load music on, which saves me from plugging in my ipod. The Tuner sounds clean and much better than factory unit. The interface is not very well thought out, it works, but you need to play with it and read the manual. My biggest complaint is the way you change radio stations, it is not intuitive and takes more button pressing then it should if they put a little more thought into how the listener would use it. That said, I do not use the radio too often as I prefer to listen to my own music off the SD, USB or iPod.
The remote suffers the same interface issue when using the radio, no easy way to change stations.
The screen is very pretty and I love the fact that you can customize the color of the back light of the unit, you can make it glow whatever color you are in the mood for, match it to the instrument cluster colors or have it cycle through the colors.
I can’t speak to the video playback as I did not connect the parking break line. But I did see that you can purchase a “thing” to bypass the PB so you can watch video while you are moving, which is really only useful for the passengers, who would be dumb enough to watch a video while they drive??? I guess the same people that put on makeup 2 inches from the sun visor mirror or who text while driving, or try to read the news paper, Sigh! I personally think anyone caught doing stupid stuff like that should have their car impounded for a week to let them think about the fact that driving is a privilege and not a right.
I am very happy I bought this unit. I was going back and forth between this and their regular head units with built in HD radio, but in the end this unit is a winner.
Great product
its as described
The best price in the market
Super fast shipping
I guess i should have done a little more research before jumping into this thing. I have two other Pioneer Premier headunits and loved them both. System control, built in crossovers, built in e.q., usb connections on BACK of deck so you can pout the ipod in the glove box and leave it there. I figured this unit would be just as easy to use as the others and have all the control I have come to expect from Pioneer.
WRONG.
First, the iPod cable. USB only and the only hook up for USB is on the face?! What moron thought this up? I don’t want some cable hanging out of the face of this nice, new, sleek toy I just spent half an hour putting in my truck. My last Pioneer head unit had the USB hook up on the rear so i could run the extension to the glove box and just leave my iPod hooked up all the time, tucked away nicely in a safe place and not worry about it. Why didn’t they do this on this unit? There’s an ip bus connection on the back but as far as I can tell, there’s no way to hook an iPod up to that.
Second: control. The remote sucks, the tiny knob on the front is way to small and harder to turn than the others, and the radio preset set-up is awful. The two previous decks i had were great, this one is just plain bad.
Third: no CD player. Since when did CD become an option?! Granted, I rarely have CD’s in my rig but I thought CD was standard in all head units nowadays considering that the car stereo market is in the toilet. I mean, Best Buy doesn’t even carry more than a dozen decks now and Ultimate is down to Rockford and Alpine only. For $300, i expect a CD slot, especially in a deck that doesn’t have any other built-in extras like HD radio, satelite or an iPod hook up that doesn’t stick out of the face!
This unit IS NOT worth $265.00 that Amazon is asking for it, and certainly isn’t worth the retail rate at the local stores. Pioneer choked hard on this pile of junk and is going to have to come up with better products if they want to compete in a weak market like this one. Built in crossovers, EQ and system set up options are decent, but certainly don’t make up for the terrible controls and even worse design flaws for system expansion.
Pioneer’s new ‘Multimedia receiver’ – FAIL. Buy something else. The one I got is already on it’s way back.