In Dash DVD Player
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In Dash DVD Player
DOes anybody here have an indash dvd player, im trying to decide with one to get either a pioneer, or a kenwood, the guy at the car audio store says there is a feature that you cant play dvds while driving, is the kenwood the same thing, i know its jsut a wire that you dont connect and tehn it will play while driving. does anybody have one and how was the intsall
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Re: In Dash DVD Player
Originally Posted by tripscarcare95
DOes anybody here have an indash dvd player, im trying to decide with one to get either a pioneer, or a kenwood, the guy at the car audio store says there is a feature that you cant play dvds while driving, is the kenwood the same thing, i know its jsut a wire that you dont connect and tehn it will play while driving. does anybody have one and how was the intsall
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I took the challange and made a double DIN head unit fit in a 1.5 DIN space mostly cause I aquired the head unit for no charge. Quite frankly, the DVD quality on my Eclipse is not as good as some of the motorized single DIN unit'* I've seen. Mine is listed as a 6.5" screen and most of the motorized ones I like are 7". There'* more pixel compression which makes for a relatively poor picture on mine.
The feature that prevents the DVD from operating while driving is usually one wire. Normally it'* connected to the Park/Neutral switch or parking brake switch. you'll probably have a difficult time convincing an installer to wire it so it will operate while driving. There is a certain amount of liability that a shop has for the proper installation of a device like this. With that being said, mine will work at any time (providing I can find the damn remote to press play).
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Originally Posted by randman1
I took the challange and made a double DIN head unit fit in a 1.5 DIN space mostly cause I aquired the head unit for no charge. Quite frankly, the DVD quality on my Eclipse is not as good as some of the motorized single DIN unit'* I've seen. Mine is listed as a 6.5" screen and most of the motorized ones I like are 7". There'* more pixel compression which makes for a relatively poor picture on mine.
The feature that prevents the DVD from operating while driving is usually one wire. Normally it'* connected to the Park/Neutral switch or parking brake switch. you'll probably have a difficult time convincing an installer to wire it so it will operate while driving. There is a certain amount of liability that a shop has for the proper installation of a device like this. With that being said, mine will work at any time (providing I can find the damn remote to press play).
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Originally Posted by opensourceguy
If it connects to the park/neutral switch, all you need to do, is find that one wire, and give it an ignition-on 12v source. That'll bypass it all.
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Originally Posted by GAMEOVER
Originally Posted by opensourceguy
If it connects to the park/neutral switch, all you need to do, is find that one wire, and give it an ignition-on 12v source. That'll bypass it all.
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On the new Pioneers you need to hook it up to a switch.