Pioneer AVH-P4400BH 2-DIN Multimedia DVD Receiver with 7" Widescreen Touch Panel Display, Built-In Bluetooth, and HD Radio™ Tuner
I had the JVC avx 720 which I just replaced. It is also a 7" DVD receiver. I changed it because the optional bluetooth accesory was totally worthless. I lost my money ($ 100) and my trust in JVC products.Bought this Pioneer as I had a previous unit in my wife's car and works very well.
My comments up to now
Interface is very good, fast, easy to use while driving as it has big letters and symbols to navigate. Changing from one song to the next with the ipod is very fast.
Sound is also much better that the JVC unit as it comes with Loudness.
Pairing my Samsung Android took just one minute, all of my adressbook is shown, and you can hear very well the person on the other side. Seems it is quite clear for the person receiving the call as well.
Only problem this far is I cannot adjust video while driving. I have a second screen for the kids, but cannot setup the output video from the unit.
All in all, much better that the JVC unit, which in total with the bluetooth accesory was $ 450.
I have had the unit in my 2005 f150 for about 3 weeks now. I have not had any problems with it at all. Very glad I bought this radio.
I have used the bluetooth link to connect to my android phone for playing music from both pandora and from the google music service. Both have played very well with no static that I have heard. When I get into my truck the phone and radio will get a bluetooth connection within 10 seconds and it will start playing over bluetooth whatever the last thing I was playing from my phone.
Also have used the usb drive to play music that I have downloaded. Have about 5 gigs of music on it. This does take about 30 seconds to access the music when you turn to the usb drive. So if you want to jump from the usb drive to radio and back again it does take it about 30 seconds to access and read the drive. After it has accessed the drive you can pick and choose whatever music you want through the search menu by the artist name, then which album, then to which song. When doing this it will play the music with no hesitating when playing whatever song you pick. However it does not show the album art when playing from a usb drive.
The HD radio sounds great on whatever channel you are listening too, but the hd stations do come in with a better sound. I have not done a trip far enough out of the city to see how it will work in a rual area with low radio signal strength so can not say yet how good it picks up in that situation. I will try to remember to see how this works on my next trip to see family out in the country.
I do not have either an ipod or an iphone so I can not say how well the built in pandora works or the ipod music playing capabilities. The back up camera that I have ordered has not came in yet so I have not installed it, so cannot say how well that will work either.
So to wrap up this has been a very good buy and have been enjoying this radio.
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