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Great unit, but USB indexing need work!!! : Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD 7-Inch In-Dash Touchscreen Double-Din DVD Multimedia A/V Receiver : hyundai in
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!
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Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD 7-Inch In-Dash Touchscreen Double-Din DVD Multimedia A/V Receiver
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- 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