Some recent minds about In dash receiver - Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD

USB is the primary purpose why you might buy this in sprint receiver, and works it well, with just a few faults.

In case you are using a 8Gb drive with over a thousand songs on it, it should takes about 10 seconds when you begin the car or choose the USB source, for it to - read format. The primary downside with the USB feature is the way in which it organizes the folders. They don't seem alphabetically. Undecided what method it uses, however like lots of MP3 audio gadgets, it simply appears to throw them up in the folder checklist in whatever order it wants. It'll use the identical order every time, however you can't trick it by copying a folder you need to seem at the top first, or including - 01, 02, 03, and so on in entrance of your folders/file names. There's probably a workaround for this, but it might make more sense if it just listed the folders alphabetically.

It does learn ID3 info very properly, nevertheless it cuts off anything after a sure character limit. It could be good if it scrolled sideways through lengthy music titles/artists to show you the full ID3 information, but for about 95% of individuals's music, this won't be an issue, and for the opposite 5% you must have enough of the title to figure out what it is. Nevertheless if you do not have ID3 tags in your music, it may be a problem. For example, you probably have a folder with 10 songs in it labeled "Schiller pres. Sleepingland - Dawn - Original-Intro" and there are not any ID3 tags, it's only going to display the primary part of the filename till it reaches the character limit. So your record on the display can have 10 songs on it that every one say one thing like " Schiller pres. Sleepingland".

Additionally, the USB drive is going to stick out three" or so from the unit, so until you take away it every time, you may have to concentrate on it and cautious to not break it off. The only other problem you will discover with the USB playback, is that the progress bar is off. The bar reveals time elapsed and time remaining at the identical time. Time remaining is wrong about eighty% of the time. A music will begin up and it'll show that it has 6:22 remaining, when it's only a 4:00 song. Some songs are correct, however the majority is off anywhere from zero:30 to 3:00. Essentially the most believable explanation for that is encoded MP3 in Variable Bit Price (VBR) format.

DVD playback is superb. The video high quality is on par with any portable DVD participant you would buy. You can not tilt the screen, so application is limited, but if you're parked someplace you can simply get pleasure from a movie from any seat within the car. Nevertheless if it is daylight and sunny you'll won't be able to see much. The DVD onscreen menus are good, and the scroll bar works nicely for skipping shortly via a movie, even better than a traditional DVD player. There's a HIDE button for shortly eradicating all onscreen displays, so you don't have to attend several seconds for the menus to time out.

Sound quality is excellent. DVDs sound great. It has three loudness modes, which really bring out the sound. Strive factory audio system with no amplifier, and the constructed-in Pioneer amplifier makes a huge difference. It has a number of pre-set equalizer settings for various kinds of music.