Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great Deal, Great DVD player

I bought this in dash DVD player six months ago, and its still working great. Its comparable to the Jensen line of in dash DVD players. The screen is probably one of the best parts of this unit. Its amazingly clear. Easy to install and use, lots of features and connectability. From what Ive seen, its also very durable. A few weeks ago someone attempted to steal it out of my car, they pried on the faceplate and it didnt break off. Overall, this was an awesome buy, and I may buy another for my other car.

extraordinary buy

I bought the Dual XDVD8181 in December of 2007 and it is an extraordinary buy. The good things about it are the sound, features, and style. The sound is remarkably clear. It sounds even better with an amplifier and subwoofer! The features are almost endless, a front/rear camera input (that you can easily switch from your music, movie, or radio to look at the camera with a touch of the screen), a fine equalizer, and an iPlug connector that plays the music from your MP3 player. There are lots more, but I would be here all day trying to tell you. The style is beautiful (though it does not fit right in my 2002 Oldsmobile Alero, even with the fitting mount adapter); the screen opens and closes flawlessly. You can set it to where when you turn your car on the screen slides out and up automatically, I love that! The touch screen is unbelievably accurate (when calibrated) and the picture is beautiful, the next best thing to High Definition…ha-ha! I loved the easy installation and setup.

Though it has all of these great features, there are flaws. Every time I turn off my car and open the door, letting the CD/DVD player shut off automatically, and turn it back on later I have to setup everything again (calibration, radio stations, etc.). Somehow, it keeps resetting its self. It does get annoying, but I learned to live with it. Plus, it will not play a badly scratched CD or DVD (note: those bad CD/DVDs play in just about everything else). Last thing about it that can get a little agitating it the loading time. It takes about a minute or so.

Despite those flaws, it is a great buy, great deal too! I recommend it if you do not mind the flaws. Also, I would like to add that SonicElectronics.com did a wonderful job on the shipping. It got here promptly and safe.

awesome screen.

This is a great buy for the money. Easy to hook up. Great picture. The way to bypass it is to do this.
1. when the screen turns on put in a dvd.
2. when there is no picture but you can hear the sound do this.
3. press stop on the remote twice.
4. type 26604 on the remote.
5. Then press enter.

if that doesnt work just get a paperclip and hit the reset button on the front of the unit. It will work then.

Remember you have to hook the parking wire (yellow with a blue stripe) into the ground wire(black) when you put together the harness.

Great product- easy to use

I bought this unit about 3 months ago, and it works flawlessly. The controls are easy to use and find. The sound is fantastic and the color, clarity are way better than expected. The motor opening and closing the monitor works so well it seems effortless, unlike the Alpine I had before. I am very pleased and this unit was hundreds less!! The not so good?......The faceplate is not removable...Overall ..One of my smarter car stereo purchases.

sick touch screen!!

I ordered this deck about 3 weeks ago and im mad happy with it.For this price you cant beat it, honestly i think it looks 10x better than a pioneer touch screen.It works great and functions great so it your looking to save money and have hot stuff go with this deck!!

Dual

I would recommend it, its a good quality dvd player at a low price.....

amazing!

this is a perfect player for your car! not a single problem with it. everything installs smoothly, and works flawlessly!

nice

Just installed this unit in my 03 Tahoe. It works nice. Vibrant display is the best bet for your money. I have two freinds who just purchased this unit off of seeing mine in action. If you have the money get it.

IT CAN HANG WTIH THE BEST

Just purchased and received this unit. It installed so easy I was amazed. It far exceeds my expectations. The picture is crystal clear and so is the sound. Don't be fooled by the low price. It's a top notch unit.

Great product

I would recommend this product to anyone looking for a good headunit, I have had no problems, installation was easy, and the picture is great.

Great Product!

This product is great for the price! Haven't had any issues with it yet!

Great Unit

The Dual XDVD8181 is one of the best decks I've owned. Easy install. Clear picture and good sound. Wish it had the blue tooth option and more fine tuning of sound, but still a great buy.

great product

This product is an excellent buy for anyone. Low price and great quality. The review from the person about all the settings and presets resetting when they turn their car off, isn't because of the radio. It's because you hooked it up wrong. Anyway, mine works great. I'm loving it. Peace!

forget pioneer

i have this in one of my cars right now. the only thing im missin is components and subs. the picture quality is amazing. looks better than the pioneer in dash. the price is amazing also. i plan to get one of these for my newer car also.

great

this is one of the best in dash dvd head units i owned.its great i love the fact that it is a touch screen.

great product

I bought this product and it came on time and i got it installed it is a great product to have if you want to chill a watch a movie here and there it screen is verry clear i was surprised. cheap price for what you get

Clear dvd screen

I got this for my son for christmas and he loves it! it has the clearest picture and the remote just completes everything. This is a great buy!

Reccomended

This product is great. Very easy to install, and works great. The DVD feature is great for the kids, and I love using the touch screen. It reacts quickly.

Great Buy

I was looking at getting a DVD player for my truck and I found this baby. For the price you cannot go wrong with it, it has great picture quality on the screen. Mine for some weird reason goes back to #1 when listening to a CD sometime, but other than that PERFECT!!!

WOW!

I had seen this in two cars before i decided to get my own, and this product is awesome. Being able to switch between everything you own with just the touch of a finger. And after a few y-adapters the possibilities are endless. two 15" and four extra monitors.

maybe

i wouldn't recomend this cd player to anybody who plans on using the ipod or MP3 settings. when you scroll down to the next page, rather than showing more songs it will just say the song you're currently listening to for the wholes song. my cd player also often freezes at 1:45 and you have to eject the cd for it to function again. slow operation, doesn't tune to radio stations well. i would recommend spending the extra money for a name brand radio. this radio is very disappointing for me.

its an alright unit

This is an OK unit, i've had it for a week now. It seems that its very picky with CDs so if your CDs have a few minor scratches on them it will have problems reading it. i found the touch screen not very sinsitive and i had to push it a few times to switch tracks. Also the screen lags 2-3 seconds and doesn't update very quickly when u switch tracks using the remote or the bottons. i have NOT looked at other brands such as BOSS or JENSEN so i am not sure whether r not they have similar issues. I saw some people mentioned that it loads the CDs slow, but thats NOT true. It does not take more than 6-7 seconds to load and play a normal CD. The screen brightness is OK but it could have been better. Overall its pretty good for the price you are getting it for. Also it looks a better than the Jensen that was my second choice

decent

This is an ok product, but i would test it out a a near best-buy where they sell this. Its cheap but its really easy to use.