Sony XNV-770BT

Not great, but a good buy!

I purchased this unit from SonicElectronix on April 12, 2011 and its been good to me. It does have some flaws. The radio station has presets, but it will display the artist of the last song you listened to while on the station. Stupid to me. And the display has all the information displayed on one line that scrolls while displaying the info. Touch screen reacts a little slow to touch, but its not too bad. Thats why I rated it low for the design. It does have plenty good things. The picture quality is bright and colorfull and the dvd's look great. I don't bother with cd's or Ipods, I have an 8g flash drive with over 1000 songs. The display shows the Artist, song and album titles with the album art. The bluetooth sounds crisp and clear during phone calls. I even use the bluetooth audio to play YouTube and other media from my phone through my stereo and it sounds good. I purchased the Sony SiriusXM tuner and antenna and have satellite radio. I love the programming. The navigation from Tom Tom is also great. I've heard all the bad reviews but I've had no problems with it at all. I hook it up to my laptop and download all the updates. The Tom Tom site actually lets my computer know when an update is available when I log on to the internet. The only thing I don't have is the back up camera and I'm planning on getting it and installing this summer. I love my Sony 770 BT. Does it have flaws? Yes! But, it's nothing to make me feel like it wasn't a good purchase.

this thing is perfect!

If you are looking for the perfect navi unit, this is it. I never would have thought to buy Sony car audio, but this is great. It seems that Sony must have hired some great new engineers.

All in one stereo

I love the look and functionality of this unit. I have had a couple of issues that I've had to deal with. The first is when I turn on the car it is not always on the station I was listening to when I turned the car off. The other issue is the RCA outputs. When I connected them to my sub amp, it wasn't putting out a lot of bass. I ended up putting a line out converter with level adjustments to get the sound I want. No major issues, but it's good to know what you're dealing with before hand.

disapointed with video options/format

Video formats are very restricted. And radio frequencies not supported for eeuropien and African market. Works by 200 MHz and maps cannot be uploaded but downloaded and when it gets to maps not available. Its a waste of money nevertheless. Sound quality is excellent including other features.

Overall, a good product

The screen on this is beautiful. Videos look amazing on this. I haven't had any GPS problems. The only thing I hate is the ipod UI. It's pretty bad. No option to search and once you pick a song to play and go back to select another one you have to go all the way back and start the whole process from the beginning. Much easier to just control the ipod manually. Overall though this is a nice product, especially at the price.

Horrible UI design, drives me nuts!

The unit itself is alright, probably on par with other similar devices in this price range (from JVC, Pioneer, etc) but the user interface is incredibly stupid! It looks as though Sony UI developers have been living in a vacuum. It does not support internalization at all, so playing an mp3 with asian, arabic or cyrillic ID3 tags brings the unit to halt by trying to read the file. After about 10 minutes of unsuccessful read attempts, it just shuts off. Also keep in mind that if you're into long mixes over an hour long, the speeds of fast-forward and Rev are extremely slow (x2 max) and there is no control over the progress bar like you have in winamp. Second, it does not have any codecs what's so ever. So if you're planning on watching .mp4, .avi or .mov movie, you might as well take a laptop. I bought this particular model only because of TomTom, but even that gave up on me. I had instances when I was driving for an hour(!) and it was still not able to find any satellites. And lastly, the overall hardware design is pretty flimsy. It might just be me, but there are some loose parts in the screen that constantly rattles when you hit a bump. After such a horrible experience, I decided to build my own carputer.

AWSOME!!!!!

I love this Sony head unit. Works great so far. This is a great buy.

Not the best bang for your buck.

Horribly slow, Features are okay but takes forever to get to where you need to get. Best thing about the deck is the Tom Tom navigation + The Graphics, Its a really clean design.

Not a lot of video files are supported. Conclusion, sent it back within a month and bought a Pioneer Z130BT.

Awesome in-dash stereo

I recommend this product because its easy to install and has many different features that come in handy. I bought this product about six months ago and i still love it.

great product

Its is big monitor with easy to use function.tom tom navi is quick and accurate,and Sony product last long and I would recommed this unit.