If you’ve had the suspicion that despite the publicity surrounding
amplifiers, subwoofers, split speaker systems and all the rest, in-car
entertainment advancements of late have been sadly lacking, well, you’re not
alone. In fact, apart from the major advance of MP3-reading CD players and
stackers, it’s easy to think that not much has happened. Until
now.
A DVD movie is easily viewable
by a front seat passenger and a second screen can be added for rear passengers.
With the release of JVC’s KD-AVX2, there’s now a single
DIN-sized package that’s quite extraordinary.
First-up, it’s a conventional AM/FM radio MP3-compatible CD –
except it looks better than most after-market units with its black ‘piano’
finish and the lack of garish silver highlights and vacuum fluorescent displays
that seem to afflict so many head units these days.
Second, there’s a built-in 3.5-inch colour LCD screen. This
means that not only are all the menus able to be displayed in large writing
against contrasting backgrounds, you can play and view DVDs – yes, the KD-AVX2
is also a DVD player. (And before you wonder at the use of that, the KD-AVX2 can
also run a second larger screen, eg, for back-seat kids – so you can use the
head unit to easily monitor what’s showing on their screen.)
