Quadchuck
Well-known Member
My valor ida700w broke again, it's a mediocre unit, however for a single din it has an unmarked feature.
Seems they used a zoran chip that decodes dts and dd, but since they didn't buy license they couldn't
list that as a feature.
It has modest performance with a 7" tuckaway screen and dts and dd it would have been a great especially
housing all that in a single din box.
Unfortunately it has an inferior designed dvd/cd mechanism, a heavy duty spring is anchored to the disc clamping
arm by a wispy plastic piece.
My Pioneer is hearty but unfortunately Pioneer makes you use another unit for decoding and a bundle of wires
that you have to stuff under the dash where you can find room, oh you have to nearly pull a home equity loan the buy
all of it. Does work very good dvhp5000mp/deqp7000. They don't support all those features in their new units.
So, I found a JVC KD-AVX1 and pawn shop. Faceplate has dts and double d logos, but I didn't read manual carefully enough.
JVC went to the trouble to decode dts and dd but then downmix multichannel into stereo. The unit has 4 discreet amps but the
preamp section is stereo, what a waste. They provide a opticle port so you can add a decoder/amp for mutichannel.
Got it cheap $45, I'll try to fix my valor and keep looking for something like the JVC only one that gets it right in design.
Seems they used a zoran chip that decodes dts and dd, but since they didn't buy license they couldn't
list that as a feature.
It has modest performance with a 7" tuckaway screen and dts and dd it would have been a great especially
housing all that in a single din box.
Unfortunately it has an inferior designed dvd/cd mechanism, a heavy duty spring is anchored to the disc clamping
arm by a wispy plastic piece.
My Pioneer is hearty but unfortunately Pioneer makes you use another unit for decoding and a bundle of wires
that you have to stuff under the dash where you can find room, oh you have to nearly pull a home equity loan the buy
all of it. Does work very good dvhp5000mp/deqp7000. They don't support all those features in their new units.
So, I found a JVC KD-AVX1 and pawn shop. Faceplate has dts and double d logos, but I didn't read manual carefully enough.
JVC went to the trouble to decode dts and dd but then downmix multichannel into stereo. The unit has 4 discreet amps but the
preamp section is stereo, what a waste. They provide a opticle port so you can add a decoder/amp for mutichannel.
Got it cheap $45, I'll try to fix my valor and keep looking for something like the JVC only one that gets it right in design.