Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD 5.8-Inch In-Dash Touchscreen Double-Din DVD Multimedia A/V Receiver

I think this is a great unit overall, install was easy, sound quality is great, the touch screen looks nice, and for the price that Amazon is selling it at it's a good deal.

With all that said though I'd like to point out some noticeable problems with the unit that I wish I had known about before.

First the iPod/USB controls are pretty slow, it can take up to a second (sometimes more) to skip from one song to the next, which is pretty ridiculous and can ruin certain songs that are supposed to flow into each other.

Also, there is no scrolling of text, so if you have a song or album title that doesn't fit (which a lot of them won't) then you only see the first however many characters it can show. Scrolling text is not exactly rocket science and is available on most every unit I've used so I was really disappointed in that.

Finally, it doesn't support RDS (RBDS) so when you're listening to the radio it won't show station name, artist/song info, etc. That's a pretty sad oversight for such an advanced unit. Most cheap factory units from auto manufacturers support that at this point, to not have it in such a nice after market unit is a noticeable oversight.

So it looks great (love the ability to customize colors) and sounds great, but functionality-wise is lacking.

This thing is awesome!! Mounted right up to my factory mounts in my 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse... Super product!!

The pioneer radio that i bought is awesome! i can play my dvds and my ipod with no problem. the picture quality is great and it plays on my rear tv also. i highly recomend this product to whomever is interested in buying a radio like this!!

I ordered this item from amazon and when i had it installed it was defected. The cd player didnt work, it made an annoying buzzing sound, and it would randomly get stuck on mute. SO I went to return and and i didnt even get all of my money back, they deducted 61 dollars from the total.

I purchased this head unit for my 2001 Ford F-150 Crew Cab. It took a little time and cutting to make it work, but when i was done it looked perfect.I have to agree with most everyone's comments, this is an awesome deck and easy to use. The sound and picture quality are amazing. my only complaint is the unit did not come with a remote or else i would have given it 5 stars. I guess i'm hard to please. Oh and also it took me a while to figure out how to bypass the DVD emergency brake thing. even though i do not recomend doing this, as it is not legal in most states, don't say i never told you anything, its simple to do. Buy a 12v on/off switch, they are like $3.00. at Pep Boys. Take the common ground (black wire) from your vehicle's wiring harness, and the ground wire (black wire) from your Pioneer 3100's wire harness and connect them with one end of a barrel connector, leaving the other end of the barrel connector open. Now run one of the two wires from the switch to the open end of the barrel connecter and attach it. For the last wire left on the switch take the green park brake wire from the Pioneer 3100's harness and connect it to the last wire left on the on/off switch. Done!. Thats it. now all you do is flip that switch to on or off if you hooked the wires up backwards lol and you can watch a DVD while the vehicle is moving. Anyway i am happy with this units performance and it was pretty easy to install. if you do purchase this unit you will be happy especially for the price. if you have any questions feel free to write. Jon~