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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.19 inches | | Product Width: | 6.31 inches | | Product Height: | 4.38 inches | | Product Weight: | 5.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 14.9 inches | | Package Width: | 10.4 inches | | Package Height: | 7.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 7.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 10 reviews |
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| | Features | 6.1" FULLY MOTORIZED DOUBLE DIN AM/FM/CD/MP3/DVD MONITORBLUETOOTH | TOUCHSCREENUSB INPUT | AUX INPUT | REAR CAMERA INPUTVARIABLE COLOR ILLUMINATION | DETACHABLE FACEOPTIONAL REMOTE CONTROL | MANUFACTURER WARRANTY!
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome Unit! Jul 13, 2011
By Michael
Just installed this unit and I am blown away with the quality and number of features! This unit is absolutely amazing. It has everything I wanted and more which includes:
--INSTALL: Took about 3 hours since I have never installed a head unit before and had to look at forums of how to take apart my dash. Even though it took long, it was relatively easy.
--BLUETOOTH STREAMING: High quality music streaming via Bluetooth from my Droid. I can also take control of my droid from the headunit. This is great since my phone is my primary music player. Pairs up as soon as I get in the vehicle and has very high fidelity. No unsightly aux wire needs to be run but can be if needed (Friend's phone/iPod).
--BLUETOOTH PHONE: Still tweeking it to sound just right, but overall impressed. Initially I was worried that it was not going to sound good at all when I first started testing it out. Call quality on my end (what I heard) sounded fantastic, but my voice sounded muffled to others. Turns out there is an on screen option to adjust the mic volume between 1-3. Its set on 3 but turn it all the way down and it makes it sound so much better. Have the mic mounted high on the A-Pillar currently.
--REAR USB: Works fantastic. Ran it into my glove box. Very fast to load, no lag. Brings in album art if you have it which looks fantastic on the high res screen.
--SOUND QUALITY: Awesome. Whether its bluetooth streaming, CDs, DVDs, or music on the USB stick, it sounds so much better than my stock stereo. EQ is great and very adjustable. I'm using the "Dynamic" setting and it sounds fantastic.
--DVD: Awesome screen quality, way better than the comparable Pioneer model. Very high resolution!
--MENUs: Intuitive and fast. No waiting time. Easy to get the hang of.
--EXPANDABILITY: Lots! Can add Sirius/XM, Back-up Cam, Sub woofer, Speaker Amp.
--CUSTOMIZABILITY: Can add your own backgrounds, change the illumination to match your existing dash lights.
--FIT AND FINISH: I really wanted a OEM look to my dash, not some flashly aftermarket unit. Fits great overall, still need to put in the dash kit and wire up the steering wheel controls but overall it looks fantastic. Makes my 4Runner look awesome inside.
--START UP AND LOAD TIME: Start up take 2-3 seconds max. Fast to connect to phone, fast to move from song to song on USB, CD or Streaming bluetooth.
COOL FEATURES: I have Navigation on my Droid through Google Maps so whats awesome is that the directions play through my speakers as part of the BT streaming. I literally can be listening to a song and bam, it pauses my music, gives me a clear voice direction where to go and then resumes my music.
DETACHABLE FACE PLATE: Great for anti-theft. Even comes with a nice case to protect your face plate while its off the unit.
OVERALL:
I simply love this unit. I can not recommend it enough. My friends and family are blown away at how nice it is. Seems to be of great quality and is feature loaded. Everything works so well! I demoed the Pioneer AVH 3300BT and Sony XAV 62BT. Both are ok but this unit, for me, blows them out of the water!
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Better than most but room for improvement Aug 13, 2011
By Julia Truchsess
"Julia Dee"
In my quest for a decent car iPod controller I checked out most of the commonly-available choices from Alpine, Pioneer, Sony, etc. and chose this JVC as the least of all the evils. I don't understand why these electronics giants cannot come up with a unit that
- is fast and responsive
- provides good iPod music library navigation features
- has an intuitive and elegant UI
- doesn't look like a cartoon
All of the units I tested apart from the JVC had intolerably slow response. Press a button and there's a huge lag before anything happens and/or the screen is refreshed. The responsiveness of the JVC is one of the reasons I chose it - it's the only one where things happen right when you press a button, and screen drawing happens pretty much invisibly fast. The Pioneer AppRadio is a nice idea but it's insanely slow doing just about anything. If not for that I probably would have bought it. Given the large number of fast, inexpensive microprocessors available today I just don't understand this.
No car radio I've seen seems to have been designed by anyone who actually listens seriously to a large music library. My 160GB iPod has about 14,000 songs on it. The standard Media Center 130 that came with my 2011 Jeep Wrangler is a nice-looking unit with nice features but it is absolutely useless for listening to the iPod in any other modes than random shuffle or alphabetical-by-song. Because there's no alphabetical or percentage scroll feature, it's completely impossible to scroll to a specific artist or song - just scrolling through the A's to get to the B's takes more than 5 minutes of dial-spinning, during which time the iPod will probably crash. Hence my need to replace it with something else.
The AVX740 has reasonably fast music library scrolling, probably limited by the speed of the iPod data connection. While it's way better than the Jeep radio, there's unfortunately no real-time display of where you are during scrolling. You have to drag the touch-screen slider, take a guess as to where you are in the alphabet, stop scrolling, then wait for the display to update to find out where you are. It can take a lot of trial and error to get where you want to go. There should be a real-time display of where you are in the alphabet (like on the iPod itself) and there should also be a way to bring up an alphabetical keypad or set of tabs to go directly to a desired letter, like on the produce screen of the self-checkout at the supermarket. This is not rocket science, people!
Very often when I first get in the car I don't have anything specific in mind I want to listen to, and I listen to all songs in random shuffle. Then a song will come on and I'll think "Yeah - I want to hear that album" or "I want to listen to that artist". I can't believe I'm the only person who listens to music this way, but no car radio I've seen was designed with this in mind. The AVX740 comes tantalizingly close - when a song is playing, the artist and album info are displayed on separate lines of the display, and when you touch either of them the unit recognizes the touch with a beep, as if it were a button. It SHOULD take you directly to the current artist or album, depending on what you touched, but the AVX740 just beeps and does nothing. So disappointing! What you have to do at that point is start a new search. If the new search started at the current position in the Artist/Album/Song hierarchy and allowed you to go up and down in the hierarchy it wouldn't be so bad - you could go up to the album or artist level from the current song with a click or two, and select what you want easily from there. But no, pressing the search button takes you all the way to the top, to the first song (alphabetically) of your whole library, from which point you have to go through the tedious scrolling described above just to get back to the artist or album you were already listening to! What are these designers thinking? Why don't they hire me to write their software?
The AVX740 has the nice ability to let you use your own jpeg image as its background screen, but unfortunately the display is so incredibly cluttered with garish icons that you'll never see more than about 3% of the background image so there's not much point. There are like 15 or 20 buttons and icons on the default display. This stuff should only be shown when you specifically want it. The default display should show ONLY the album artwork (if you want it), the artist, album, and track info (if you want it) and the time of day (if you want it). And of course, a discrete button for bringing up a menu that lets you get to all those other features whose buttons do NOT need to be cluttering up and uglifying the screen all the time, like AVMENU, Mode, Traffic Alert, Audio Settings, Bluetooth Settings, NAVI, and USB (yes, all those buttons and much more are on the default screen all the time). The JVC is not alone in this respect, but a bunch of wrongs don't make a right. I think the Pioneer AppRadio (and maybe the newer Sony's) have fairly uncluttered screens but as mentioned, they're unusably slow.
The AVX740's ability to customize the colors of the on-screen text and buttons, as well as the mechanical buttons, is a nice feature. there are preset colors available, but you're not limited to them - you can actually customize the colors themselves.
Most of the on-screen icons are very amateurish-looking and inelegantly arranged on the display. I'm pretty sure the display has the ability to display much nicer-looking controls. JVC should hire a good UI artist to design a set of professional-looking, elegant, and consistent icons. I've got a $32,000 car with what looks like a $14.95 handheld videogame where the radio should be :-(
The feature set of the AVX740 seems to be very complete. I haven't tried the bluetooth (I hate speakerphones), navigation (I use my phone), satellite radio (I listen to my iPod), or video (I don't watch movies in my car). The audio controls are extensive and the unit sounds great with the Jeep Infinity amp & speakers - better than the stock head unit I think. Radio seems to work well and setting presets is intuitive. Kind of annoying that the only way to get to AM presets is to scroll through several pages of FM presets, but not a huge deal.
The Jeep infinity system power amplifier is controlled via a digital (CAN) network which the AVX740 can't talk to, so I no longer have front/rear fader control from the head unit; I'm stuck with equal front/rear balance (which is not a huge deal for me). The AVX740's touch-screen fader control is very cool - you just touch and drag the center spot wherever you want it on the graphic display - but I can only use it for left/right balance, not front/rear. Oh well. There's a handy "Center" button which sets it dead center which is where it'll be staying in my car.
The AVX740's mechanical controls have a good quality feel. The bezel is glossy black plastic. I'm not sure what the thinking was behind that decision - I haven't seen too many gloss black dashboards lately. A little bit of mold texture and perhaps a grayer tone might have matched more dashboards. When direct sunlight hits the unit the bezel actually looks brownish instead of black.
The User Manual says (on almost every page) that "The operation buttons disappear by touching the screen or when no operation is done for about 5 seconds". I wish that I could actually get my AVX740 to behave this way but so far I've not been able to. The display stays on indefinitely until the mechanical Menu button is pressed and held. It wakes up when you touch the screen.
Initial setup has one very big "gotcha". When first turned on or after being manually reset, the AVX740 shows you an "Initial Settings" screen. While you can bring up this screen later, there are two options that can only be set once - you have to reset the unit (and lose all your customized settings) if you want to change either of them. These are Audio Input and Video Input. The choices are AV-IN and iPOD. Well, since I'm using my iPod as my audio input, I selected "iPod". WRONG! This results in a nice display of my track info and artwork but no audio. In order to get the iPod audio I have to select "AV-IN" as my audio input, at least the way my installer (a highly-regarded professional) installed the unit.
Overall I'm much happier with this unit than with the stock Jeep radio (although the stock unit looked a lot nicer). At least I can finally listen to the music of my choice, and it sounds great. I can only hope and pray for a future software update that will improve its appearance and music navigation at some point.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Just Installed And Looks pretty Good Feb 10, 2012
By JB
"jb"
OK, so I just had this double din unit installed today in my 2002 Chevy. Yup, a double din radio in a 1 1/2 din hole. It looks amazing. Love having a dial for the volume, and touch screen reacts well and doesn't need to be tapped very hard.
The biggest con to this is the user manual. It is poorly written, and I'm really having to scratch my head to figure out how to integrate my iPhone to the head unit and make everything work. But most of the controls fortunately are fairly intuitive. I will update this review in a few weeks once I've had a chance to play with everything.
UPDATE: It has taken some serious playing with various functions to get this radio to work right. One thing--this head unit is NOT completely compatible with the iPhone 4S! I am hoping this will be rectified by a firmware update by JVC. Finally got the Motion X GPS function to work, but the display of the map is very hazy. Not the image quality I'd expect. Also having problems with the settings, but I think that is more user error at this point than the unit (I hope).
2 Month Update: OK, having lived with the unit a bit, I can tell you that this unit is NOT iPhone 4S friendly. Half the time the phone makes a connection for playing music, and the music plays for a few seconds and then silence. You have to either manually disconnect and reconnect your phone, or scroll through the source button (8 pushes to get back to iPod) and then the music plays fine. As one other reviewer noted, the graphics are very amateurish, and I agree that an update could be done by JVC quite easily to update the look. They could also update the software to allow complete integration of the 4S. The JVC 740 will NOT import iPhone 4S contacts either. And even after multiple re-pairings, the head unit grabs my calls from my phone, but they can't hear me and I can't hear them, rendering the unit useless for handsfree. It will also not play Bluetooth music unless connected (or maybe that's the way it's supposed to be, but then why bother with bluetooth instead of just plugging in?) Also, like the previous reviewer, my display always stays on, even after an hour of not touching it. I can dim it by selecting AV OFF. Also, it would be nice to have the unit respond to dimming other than just changing the color of my text. Would like to be able to have it dim when using the light/dash dimmer, but maybe I'm just expecting too much.
JVC---PLEASE send out an software update!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great Radio!!! Jun 16, 2011
By Ric
This is a great double din touch screen radio. The Detachable face plate is Golden for avoiding broken windows and a stolen stereo. I bought the Stereo wire harness for my 2001 nissan Xterra and the JVC KS-U30 usb video Cable for ipod and iphone. I have an Iphone 4. I did NOT need an installation kit for my car in order for the radio to fit, it fit into the same slot as the factory radio. I installed everything my self and it all works perfectly. I've had the Stereo for over a month now and it still works great. The Motion X app DOES work on the radio display. For all of the people saying that JVC is falsely advertising the app to work on their radios, you are All Mistaken. If you can't get it to work, its because you don't know how to set the radio up, not because the radio is defective. You have to play with the display inputs in settings to get the thing to work. Its not rocket science, I'm sure they'll get it; that or they have bought an imitation or the wrong jvc cable. For me the JVC Cable is a MUST for this stereo to get the most out of it. Any way, the sound is immensely better than my factory radio, the equalizer is great. The dvd image and iphone videos image are awesome, and the sound like I said is amazing. If you play with the av in display inputs from settings, you can use other iphone apps like vevo and stream music videos to your display, make sure you have a good data plan. You can Control your music library form the stereo or from the ipod. You can also hear tune in radio over the car speakers as well. The local radio stations all pick up like they should. You can customize the background of the display using a regular usb pen drive with pictures, you have to load and open the picture first, then go to settings and display to capture the photo. also easy. To watch dvd videos on the go, easy as pie, Youtube it.... at your own risk and I don't recommend it, just in case... You can also stream music from your phone by bluetooh to the stereo flawlessly. The only down side is the bluetooth speaker that comes with the stereo, I have it mounted on the back of the steering wheel and people say they can hear me only some of the time. I have to get a new speaker and see if it works better. The stereo does download your contacts and recent and missed calls. nice touch. The Bluetooth adapter comes installed in the stereo body, so if you don't see it in the packaging, don't freak out. Front aux works as it should for any mp3 player or ipod if you don't have the jvc cables. The buttons on the front are well made and not flimsy, the changing colors are cool, or you can set one to be steady. RDS only works if its available in your area I believe, I don't get the song names but I do get the station names for the regular radio. I don't have SAT radio so I don't if RDS works for that, it should though. The Touch Screen works great for all the buttons on the screen, it's sensitive so you don't have to press hard, you can also turn up or down volume by making a circle in the center, or next or previous track by swiping from the center to the left or right. All in all I think it was a Great Buy, I don't Regret it at all, and I'd buy it again if I had to. I chose the 6.1 inch over the 7 inch model because I like having the volume and menu buttons in the front, and the aux input with the 7 in doesn't have. I hope this review helps in your decision to buy the radio. Good luck.
 don't buy if you have an iPhone 4S Apr 07, 2012
By oz
"oz"
Overall like the basic stereo. Music sounds clear with OK volume, similar to my factory deck (thougth it would be better). DVD screen is great and sound is excellent as well, to bad i never use this... blue tooth works to play music but then disables your siri. BT for the actual phone works intermittantly. I finally became so disapointed with the BT i shut it off and disabled my phone connection. I have talked with tech support at JVC since the day i received my iphone 4s and they assured me they would release an update soon. It has been six months now and still no update. I have called Apple and they say they will work with JVC but they have to initiate the tech call. Most everything else works with the stereo with no problems, i just expected JVC to be a little more on the ball with tech support especially for the iPhone since they advertise right on the package "MADE FOR IPOD AND IPHONE".
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