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Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD 5.8-Inch Widescreen In-Dash Double-DIN DVD Multimedia AV Receiver
The Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD in-dash double-DIN DVD Multimedia AV Receiver features a 5.8-inch widescreen display and play back DVD video, DivX, and MP3/WMA/iTunes AAC. It ‘also features iPod direct control (CD-IU50V) and is ready Bluetooth adapter (CD-BTB200 required). Now Playing in a Dash Near You This is what drive-in should have been. Audio / video players to improve on a CD with the addition of a large touchscreen. With features such as touch-control slide and improved iPod interface, taking your favorite movies, music, and other means of communication by road is better than Ever Can See Clearly Now The 5.8-inch widescreen touchscreen on the AVH-P3100DVD lets you enjoy all the music files and videos in style. Sick of having to search through the music of your song lyrics? Now you can scroll through your music with the touch of a finger. Read more
IPod Made Easy
Just connect your iPod directly into the CD drive with cable IU50V iPod, and you’re ready to rock and roll. Touch-scroll slide, in alphabetical order of high-speed research, album covers, and the search for improved links make it easy to find your music.
Bring your music to life
Hear the detail, warmth, clarity and the way the artist intended, to all of your highly compressed MP3, WMA and AAC. With the restoration of data, which tends to get lost in the digital compression process, Pioneer can make the music sound quality close to CD.
Smooth Operator
Check your movies and music has never been so easy. With a swipe of your finger over the smooth touch-panel display, you can fast forward and rewind audio / video. (Note: the touch-slide fast forward / rewind function is not available on iPod.)
Now It’s Personal
Select from five color display and 112 lights on the button to match the interior lighting of your car, color and design. You can even configure your favorite JPEGs as wallpaper. Parked with no place to go? Now you can enjoy a slideshow of your photos on a CD or a USB device.
Get the Blues
Fed with the Bluetooth headset? Here’s a better hands free solution. Use the available CD-BTB200 Bluetooth adapter and Bluetooth mobile phone easier, safer, and hands-free operation. The unit acts as a speakerphone, channeling the sound through your car speakers, which makes the ringing sound better. It also automatically removes your music so you’ll never miss a call. (Note: CD-BTB200 adapter required.)
Other features
The AVH-P3100DVD also includes features that are designed to expand your system, customize your experience and provide both superior sound quality and easy operation, such as:
* Built-in AUX input devices for multimedia
* Two high-Volt RCA pre-outs for adding external amplifiers and speakers;
* Built-in MOSFET 50 W x 4 amplifier for excellent sound quality, minimal distortion and efficient management of power and
* Supertuner IIID advanced analog and digital processing to provide superior images, less distortion and noise, and stronger, smoother broadcast signal reception.
What’s in the Box
Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD, wiring, hardware installation, operation manual, installation guide, warranty
Product Description
DVD / CD receiver with internal amp (14 watts RMS CEA-2006/50 peak x 4 channels) * 5.8 “touchscreen * plays MP3/WMA/AAC files recorded on CD and DVD * compatible with Pioneer iPod adapter, Bluetooth adapter, the satellite radio, HD Radio, and CD changer *
Customer Reviews
By Pen Name (Fairbanks, Alaska)
The Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD is a touch-screen double-DIN aftermarket car stereo. It has a 5.8 “widescreen color full face, front auxiliary port for connecting an iPod or other device, a front USB port for connecting a USB flash drive, and you can play DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, DivX, MP3, WMA and AAC. The Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD 7-inch In-Dash Double-DIN DVD Multimedia AV Receiver with Widescreen display is the exact same radio, except it adds a larger screen (7 “), discarding the physical buttons on each side, and add a subwoofer preamp.
INSTALLATION AND BYPASS DVD: Double DIN means it is about twice the size of a traditional car stereo, so before you order, you must make sure that you insert in your car. The best way to do this is to go to the Crutchfield web site and determine if it will work on your vehicle. The unit will come with the receiver, mounting screws, manual, a pen stylus, front cover assembly, and a power cord. I found it quite easy to install. The power cord that comes with bare wires just came out of it. Besides the radio, you want to buy a belt assembly and mounting bracket for your vehicle. The vest looks just like what comes with the stereo, but is designed to clip into the factory wiring that is in your vehicle, to make it easier to remove the stereo. If you do not have one, you connect all the cables by hand, and each disconnect to remove. The mounting bracket is designed to make sure radio is inserted correctly in your specific vehicle. I bought both the wiring and the bracket Crutchfield. My only problem with the installation, is that it is a long green wire should be connected to the emergency brake wire. This is necessary because the unit is a safety feature that requires the emergency brake to be applied in order to play DVDs. My emergency brake wire has been extremely difficult to achieve, and once I was finally able to remove the center console and see him, that he was almost impossible to access. I would not suggest doing this, but if you have the same problem and wants to work around this problem, or if you want to be able to watch DVDs without having to enter the brake, then you need to connect the wire a car relay switch. Go to Radio Shack and buy a momentary switch button, part number 275-1548. Cut the green wire coming out of the wiring from the radio receiver, near the end of it, maybe 5 inches away from the red clip. Strip the wire, and run through one of the holes on the switch relay. You can weld or simply wrap with tape. Buy a standard 16 gauge wire from Radio Shack and connect it to the other hole on the switch, then connect the other end to a ground connection on your vehicle. I just wrapped my around one of the mounting screws for the radio. Fillings this thread off-site under the dash and pull it out when I need it. Alternatively, you can simply cut the green wire directly between them, and use the half cut themselves, rather than having to buy more wire from Radio Shack, but I wanted an extra long wire in case I ever want to move. Now, when you play a DVD, a warning screen will come up. Just press the button on the switch and he will go, because it tricks the phone into thinking you have committed the parking brake. Be sure to check with local laws, as having the DVD player while driving or bypassing this might be illegal in your area. You can also cancel the insurance claims. I certainly do not recommend ever watch a DVD while driving.
Form Factor: The radio is nice. E ‘fit flush with my dash and looks gorgeous. There are only a few buttons on the left side, and I did not even realize they were buttons until I looked closely. That the volume control, forward / backward, the source, mute, and power. I like to have these physical buttons, especially for the volume and mute. If I receive a phone call or need to hear something, I want to be able to immediately turn off the radio without having to fumble with a touchscreen. It ‘very nice to have a radio that has 15 buttons in all and looks cluttered. Personalization is easy with the radio. You can choose different colors, that will change the LED colors on these physical buttons and touch-screen menu buttons, to match the LED color of your car. You can also choose from seven screens in the background of the factory, of which three animated videos. The animation for the video which is very subtle and not distracting. Also, when you change the color of the LED, it turns into reality the color of the background video to match, which is really cool. If you do not like these, you can use your own image from a CDR or a USB drive. The screen contains an option for dimmer, so when you turn on the light dims automatically. This is quite nice, but it can also be annoying. I like to use my lights during the day, and while the screen is still readable, it can be difficult to see. Fortunately, you can completely change the options through the dimmer settings.
Touchscreen: The touchscreen is very easy to navigate and do very well. The menu system is very intuitive and set up a bit ‘like a computer. There is a back button and a button for flight through the menus. Looking through a song can be done in three ways. You can hold the physical forward / back buttons on the unit, you can do the same with the touchscreen forward / backward buttons, or you can use your finger to scroll through a progress bar back and forth, the same as you would a video files on your computer or an iPod. This is great because a song may begin 30 minutes, and I can only press the end of the progress bar with your finger and it will immediately jump to the end of the song (or whatever position I want on the toolbar). From what I can tell, it will run exactly like a computer and stop the exact location is touched. A lot of touchscreen would be “segments”, or 5-10 seconds, and stop on any segment that has come close. But with the AVH-P3100, is divided into 2 one-second increments, so you can have scrolling much more accurate. This is the only case where I can see the stylus to be useful, but I have rather large fingers and have no problem with the scroll bar. My main complaint with the navigation touchscreen, is with the up / down scrolling. This is used when browsing radio / satellite, song tracks on a CD, or file folders on a USB / iPod. There is no page up / down feature, so if five folders are displayed and you press the down arrow on the scroll bar, or if you press anywhere below the current position on the scroll bar, it will move down the list one, instead of down from five. This is a serious shortcoming, in my opinion, and concerns the way in which the installation folders. I have a folder on my USB with 80 subfolders. This means that if I want to scroll through each folder in the list, I press the button pressed 75 times. Now you can put your finger on it and simply drag the down arrow to move quickly, but it goes kind of fast, and browse the list would be much more convenient. Furthermore, since only displays five rows at a time, it means you have to scroll once to see all six radio presets.
USB: USB is the main reason I bought this radio and works well, with few defects. First, it takes about 10 seconds when I start the car or drive to the USB source, as to “read the”. This is perhaps because I’m using a 8GB drive, with over 1000 songs in it, so it is acceptable to me. My main problem with the USB function, is how to organize folders. Not appear in alphabetical order. I’m not sure what method is used, but like a lot of MP3 audio devices, it seems only to throw them into the folder list in any order you want. It will use the same order each time, but you can not cheat by copying a folder that you want to see at the first top, or the addition of “01, 02, 03, etc” in front of the folder / file names . “There is probably a solution for this, but I have no idea what it is. I think it would make more sense if only the folders listed in alphabetical order. It does read ID3 information very well, however you cut anything, after a certain character limit. It would be nice if you scroll sideways along the titles of songs / artists to display all the ID3 information, but for about 95% of popular music, this will not be a problem, and the remaining 5% you should have enough Title to understand what it is. However, if you do not have ID3 tags on your music, can be a problem. For example, if you have a folder with 10 songs in it labeled “DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince – Greatest Hits – Girls Is not Nothing But Trouble, “and there are no ID3 tags, it’s only going to display the first part of the name of the file until you reach the character limit. Therefore, your screen will list 10 songs on it that everyone says something like “DJ Jazzy Jeff and his father.” Also, the USB drive is about to lodge a 3 “or so the unit, so unless you remove each time, you must be aware of what and be careful not to break it. Not bother me at all though. The only other problem I noticed with USB playback, is that the progress bar is turned off. The bar shows the time elapsed and time remaining at the same time. Remaining time is not correct about 80% of the time. A song starts and show that the remaining 6:22, when a song is only 4:00. Some songs are accurate
By Vocal Lover (Way out West)
This was ordered from Amazon, and as usual, arrived intact and quickly. I was replacing a Clarion Max385 and wanted a bridge that should not take so long to change the sources (the trumpet practically had to reboot every time …) and had a pretty picture. The 3100 has achieved both of these requirements and installed easily with Scosche adapter I ordered from Crutchfield. N. remote control is included with the receiver, but there are cheap here on Amazon. This new deck now features a USB front, as well as a front mini-jack for connecting a hard key or your MP3 player, iPod requires a separate adapter sold separately. Same for Bluetooth and Serius Radio.
The touch screen works well, the sound is beautiful, like the ability to use own pictures as screen background, there are a lot of color combinations designed to help your dashboard lights coloring, if desired, and slot means no more opening and closing the unit to insert and remove disks, a great pain, with the Clarion … Several stereo stores told me that this would not / could not put my 2005 Tucson, but the adapter Scosche easier to adjust without cutting, and sits flush with the dashboard when done.