| Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD 7-Inch In-Dash Touchscreen Double-Din DVD Multimedia A/V Receiver |  | Brand: Pioneer
Category: Car Audio or Theater
List Price: $550.00
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Sales Rank: 7,289
Media: Electronics
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Display Size: 7
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.8
Dimensions (in): 12 x 20.4 x 3.6
MPN: AVH-P4100DVD
Model: AVH-P4100DVD
UPC: 012562911298
EAN: 0012562911298
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| Features:
| • | 7-inch motorized touchscreen LCD monitor | | • | Double DIN Head unit | | • | Plays DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, DivX, MP3, WMA and AAC | | • | Features touchscreen control for iPod/iPhone with album art, touch slide, ASR and USB control |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Introducing the Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD In-Dash Double-DIN DVD Multimedia AV Receiver with 7-inch Widescreen Display, including DVD Video, DivX, MP3/WMA/iTunes AAC playback, iPod Direct Control (CD-IU50V Required), and Bluetooth Adapter Ready (CD-BTB200 Required). Now Playing In A Dash Near You
This is what Drive-In Movies were supposed to be. Audio/Video players improve on CD Players by adding a nice large touch screen. With features like touch-slide control and improved iPod interface, taking your favorite movies, music, and other media on the road is better than ever.  Pioneer AVIC-F900BT In-Dash Navigation AV Receiver with DVD Playback and Built-In Bluetooth.
Click to enlarge. |  Controlling your movies and music has never been easier with the slick touch panel display. |  Back connections of the Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD. |  Now playing in a dash near you: Your calls, CDs, DVDs, your iPod and more. | Widen Your Horizons
With a 15 percent larger display that the AVH-P3100DVD, the AVH-P4100DVD's motorized display hides the CD slot, allowing you to enjoy all of your Audio/Video content on the full-color 7-inch screen. iPod Made Easy
Simply plug your iPod directly into the unit using the CD-IU50V iPod cable, and you are ready to rock and roll. Touch slide scrolling, Alphabetical Hi-Speed Search, Album Art, and improved Link Search make it easy to find your music. Bring Your Music To Life
Hear the detail, warmth, and clarity the way the artist intended it, from all of your highly compressed MP3, WMA and AAC files. By restoring data that tends to get lost in the digital compression process, we can make your music sound close to CD quality. Smooth Operator
Controlling your movies and music has never been easier. With a smooth swipe of your finger on the touch panel display, you can fastforward and rewind Audio/Video content (Note: Touchslide Fastforward/Rewind function not available on iPod). Now It's Personal
Select among five display colors and 112 key panel illumination to match car interior lighting, color, and design. You can even set your favorite JPEG file as wallpaper. Parked with no place to go? Now you can enjoy a slideshow of your photos on a CD or USB Device. Fed up with your Bluetooth headset?
Here's a better hands-free solution. Use the available CD-BTB200 Bluetooth Adapter and Bluetooth-enabled cellular phones for easy, safe, and hands-free operation. The unit acts like a speakerphone, channeling the sound through your car speakers which makes the call sound better. It also automatically mutes your music so that you'll never miss a call (Note: Optional CD-BTB200 adapter required). What else does this model have to offer?
The AVH-P4100DVD also includes additional features like built-in AUX input for your media devices. Features that are designed to expand your system, customize your experience, provide superior sound quality and easy operation. - 3 RCA Hi-Volt pre-outs for adding on external amps and speakers simplify system expansion.
- Play your MP3, WMA, iTunes AAC from CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, or USB Device.
- Built-in MOSFET 50 W x 4 amplifier for excellent sound quality, minimal distortion and efficient power handling.
- Supertuner IIID advanced analog and digital processing assure superior imaging, less distortion and noise, and stronger, smoother broadcast signal reception.
What's in the Box
Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD, wiring harness, installation hardware, operation manual, installation guide, warranty sheet
Product Description
Pioneer Avh-P4100Dvd 7-Inch In-Dash Touchscreen Double-Din Dvd Multimedia A/V Receiver
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| Customer Reviews:
Generally a good unit, but has a couple shortcomings April 9, 2009
D. Edwards (Nashville, TN United States)
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
I have had this unit for about a week now, and generally it's a pretty impressive unit. I also purchased the Pioneer GEX-P10HD HD Radio Tuner for Pioneer HD Radio-Ready Head Units, the Pioneer CD-BTB200 Bluetooth Wireless Adapter, and the Pioneer Car CDIU200V 2 Meter USB iPod Cable for AVH-P4100DVD.
Installation:
Installation for the product was generally clear. I am using the unit in a 1999 Nissan Altima. Had plenty of room for all three pieces either below the stereo or below the steering column.
AUX Inputs:
You'll need to buy an 1/8" headphone extension cable if you plan to use the aux input to connect to a normal player since the AUX input is in the back of the unit. You can also use a normal RCA stereo to 1/8" cable like for a home stereo as well. The unit accepts both and you can use them for different units, so you can have an ipod hooked up and another player at the same time.
Video Quality:
* Album covers from ipods are okay. A bit fuzzy, but okay.
* DVDs look awesome on this unit. Every bit of what you'd want. Plenty of control options. I have no complaints on this one.
* Color on the screen is bright and easy to read and selecting things on the screen is also easy. It's a senstive touch, so I never have to press hard. Most of the text is very large, so it's easy to read and select on the screen in a moving car. Has a clean look, will be impressive to passengers, but when off, nothing that makes it look fancy (in my ideal world hopefully that'll reduce theft potential). If you go to the Pioneer Electronics website, they have many more images of the screens. And the unit looks just as good in real life as it does in those pictures.
Sound Options:
* EQ is parametric, only three bands, but it allows you to choose what frequency and how many frequencies on either side of that one are affected. Provides enough flexibility if you may be used to a 7 or 10 band EQ like I am.
* Also, for external players, the feature that compensates for MP3 compressed audio is great. Really helps improve the sound from ipods.
* The Loudness feature has three intensity levels--quite helpful since on some units the difference between it being on and off can be crazy.
* The sub woofer settings allow you to choose the sub frequency you want to accent or reduce--assuming you have one with an external amplifier connected.
* Clock is only military time with no option to change it to am or pm. And it has a "just" option that drops the minutes and rounds the hours up or not. At least in the U.S., why would someone want to know a rounded hour. Not sure how that helps with anything.
Radio:
* The automatic station presets (BSM) only work in each preset group. Each group only has 6 options. So, you can't have it find the top 18 strongest signals. For example, if you use BSM setup for FM set 1, and then do the same for FM set 2, they have practically the same stations in them.
* HD radio is great, but when selecting presets, it doesn't insert the name of the station like it does with normal FM. All you see is P1, P2, etc. And I have yet to find a way to manually add it in. I don't expect to. If you use the HD unit, the normal radio functionality in the unit is disabled. You can still get the analog signals, it just works a little differently. It seems like they forgot to dot a few i's. But it switches back and forth between the analog signal and digital signal pretty well. With strong FM signals, I really can't tell much of a difference. Generally speaking, I probably wouldn't buy this item again if I had the choice. Most stations don't provide song title and artist information, plus most average stereos have that capability anyway. And on the display, what information is available from the station is really small and cluttered at the top while tremendous space is wasted in the main areas. Poorly thought out for such a excellently featured unit.
* AM stations don't come in well. When they come in, they sound great. It basically acts like a digital signal, so it either comes in and out quickly so you can't catch the words, doesn't come in at all, or it's on perfectly. When perfectly, it sounds much better than a normal stereo. My guess is that there's a processor in the unit that tries to clean up the signal. But as a result, weaker signals are simply cut off. You can't turn this feature off. Pretty tough since AM signals are so weak in the first place. My last stereo was much better. AM HD certainly sounds better, but it requires a stronger signal than the analog AM. So, it doesn't help you either.
iPod Controls:
* iPod controls work just like on the ipod except the scroll wheel action. In playlists, you can't see title and artist together. It also truncates titles and shows only 5 at a time. It's hard to find artists on the screen if you have a lot and scrolling is time consuming. There's really nothing special with this feature. It's better on the ipod because you can use the scroll action. The stereo allows you to use the ipod to select songs instead if you want. I didn't find any significant bugs when using this feature.
* The unit allows you to play videos from your iPod or iTouch if you have video capability. I have a 5th generation ipod video (The stereo does have requirements as to what ipods can be used. Basically if you have one manufactured in the last two to three years, you'll be fine.). I used DVDFab's software on a PC to convert my DVDs to a format for the ipod. But for some reason, the videos wouldn't play via the stereo like they should. I have the same problem on exercise units with the same feature. It's probably a problem with my encoding. Just know you may have some adjustments to make. I haven't bought a video from iTunes yet. I'd assume the videos would work just fine then.
Parked Requirement:
* I found a way around the parking brake requirement like a couple other reviewers. It is as simple as connecing the parking brake lead to a switch and the switch to the car chasis. The switch will have to be on (i.e. grounded) when you start your car. Then you'd switch it off and then on again. Most product descriptions on sites about this unit talk about it blocking DVDs, but if you don't hook it up at all, it actually blocks other features in the unit as well, such as changing the display intensity and setting up the bluetooth module. Even after you engage the "parking brake", there is a compliance screen prior to watching a DVD that requires you to press OK saying you're parked. It's good they do that. They shouldn't be liable in an accident caused by us going around their system and watching a DVD or trying to dial a number while driving. By going around their system, we are certainly fully responsible for the consequences.
Bluetooth Capability:
* It allows you to dump your phonebook into the unit if your phone has that option. Wasn't too hard to do that on my Treo 700p. The microphone sounded great on the piece and callers through the stereo sounded ok. I wouldn't say it's clear, but not much better than what you hear through your cellphone. The unit disables the EQ, however. So, you're stuck with the default cellphone sound. The only thing you can do is balance the signal volume with the other equipment, which for the Treo is unnecessary since you can control that on the unit.
Backgrounds:
* The default set of background options are really good, except for the animated versions. They are very pixelated--very poor quality. The are still pretty cool, though. I still use one of them for some sources.
Summary:
Overall, I'm glad I bought the unit. The radio shortcomings and ipod clumsiness are pretty big ones for me. But considering the price here on Amazon vs. other options in the same price range, I still would have bought the unit again.
 It's OK! August 30, 2009
Ian Lynch (Kingston, Jamaica)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I compared this unit with the JVC KW-AVX710 and decided to go for the Pioneer, for starters the JVC had no USB options that was standard and no SUB-Woofer out. Otherwise the picture and sound quality was very good even with my factory installed speakers. I am installing a Pioneer TV Tuner soon so I'll write an update then.
Concerns: I also hear that 1 second skip others complained aboutwhen playing either my IPOD or watching a DVD, and why in heavens name is the clock in 24-Hour format, was it being manufactured for the military? I don't see why Pioneer can't send us a software update to fix this problem.
Also in the year 2009 when I beleive my unit was made, why can't they include some small battery backup for the unit, if my car battery is disconnected everything goes including 18 FM stations which I can't always remember which frequency to avoid repeating and why didn't Pioneer give us the option on such an expensive unit to assign names to the FM/AM Preset Stations, my 10 year old Pioneer did that easily.
Don't drive and stop and start your car too ofter or you will get a USB Error, seems this unit doesn't like that or changing IPOD tracks too often and rapid.
A final plus note, my old Pioneer remote control can change the volume, track, mute and hold control which is cool, otherwise a good unit.
Great unit, but USB indexing need work!!! August 8, 2009
James Kirk (Florida)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let me start with my biggest issue with the unit: USB support.
Ok, I had a Pioneer DEH-P6900UB in my previous car, a 2-3 year old model now. I have a Fujitsu 80GB 4200RPM Hard Drive in a Masscool USB case. With this setup, I usually have about 17-22GB worth of music on the unit. With my old head unit, it would take about 30 seconds to load and start playing. And while it was loading, I could listen to the radio, a CD, etc, then switch to the USB, and it would immediately play...This unit is a whole new story. With the same setup, load times are now over a minute (I have timed it to be 1:05), and that is not only when you first start you car, but every time you go to another source and return to USB, you have to wait. This is an awful system. I realize the drive has to do indexing to make a list, but my old Pioneer unit did the same thing, and much more quickly, and while playing another source. This unit is also double the price of my old one. Acceptable load times for something like this should be no more than 30 seconds. Even if the first time you hooked it up it took longer, then it could save an index in memory or on the drive. But no, it rebuilds it EVERY TIME you return to the unit, and it takes forever.
On the positive side, the screen is awesome, the touch features are great, the sound quality is great, and if you have an ipod, it is supposed to work very quickly with that.
However, I bought the unit primarily to play from a USB hard drive, so to me everything else is secondary.
And no, my drive is not slow. I can read from it on my PC in the 20 to 25 Megabytes per second range, much faster than cheap flash memory, though expensive flash can be faster, and better random read times, so it may build an index more quickly, but it's hit or miss.
Many of the other reviews here have already thoroughly covered many of the excellent other features on the unit. My review is to describe to those interested in non-iPod USB support how well it works. Once it loads, it works great. But if you have a good amount of music, prepare to wait. EVERY TIME!
 This is the best headunit currently available..... June 1, 2009
D. Sestak (TX, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this head unit after doing intensive research. I previously owned a Clarion head unit with built in Bluetooth. I used the Bluetooth often so I needed a head unit with two primary purposes, good Bluetooth call quality and exceptional IPod integration. This unit delivers both without disappointment. I added the GEX-P20HD Radio tuner and the Pioneer CD-BTB200 Bluetooth Wireless Adapter. I also purchased a little adapter on ebay that plugs in the back of the unit which automatically removes the necessity to apply the hand brake in order to watch DVD's. The installation went flawlessly with my microphone mounted nicely in the corner of my 2008 Honda Fit Sport.
The unit powers on quickly and plays songs almost instantly. The Ipod integration is amazingly easy although I find it frustration that there is no "back" button. For example, if you go to ARTISTS: GARTH BROOKS: and then click the song The Dance and then decide you want to play a different Brooks song you have to go all the way back to Artists, find Garth Brooks again and choose a different song. That is only necessary if you are controlling the IPOD through the deck. I always chose to control the IPOD from the Ipod itself. I love LOVE this feature! I can find/navigate songs so easily on my ipod so it makes things very easy. Keep in mind that if you have a 5G (80gb or 120gb) Ipod it will not work with Master Ipod control...you must control it through the stereo deck. My iphone and Itouch work flawlessly with master control and charging the phone.
The Bluetooth easily downloaded all the contacts from my Palm Treo. However, if somebody calls you it will only show you the number on the display, it takes about 3 rings for the name to show up on screen if downloaded from your phone. I wish it was quicker but since my phone is usually in my lap I can just look down and see the name. The call quality is great, callers can never tell I am talking on a bluetooth device. The stereo automatically makes all calls completely FLAT without any bass so sometimes it sounds a little screechy but not bad....much better than my Clarion.
Lastly, the HD Radio tuner is a nice little add on since I do a lot of Fm listening. I'm a little disappointed in the quality though. It searches for a signal like you had XM or Sirius so it can sometimes take awhile for just regular terrestrial radio stations to come in.....and at least in the Dallas area there are a lot of times the signal just goes out or gets scratchy. I don't know if its my unit or what but I wish the quality of this add on was improved with a better antenna or sometime.
Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this device. The quality of the video is superb! It's so simply to navigate and very customizable in regards to bass etc. If you're looking for a spiffy looking unit with the best Ipod integration on the market...this is the unit for you.
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