Reply to are in-car "entertainment systems" worth it? what about navigation?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "are in-car "entertainment systems" worth it? what about navigation?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]The reason I love the factory-installed DVD player may not be relevant for you because your kids are older.  With the factory-installed DVD, you can control everything from the radio upfront (put the DVD in/out, control the volume, skip chapters, whatever).  We have one in our SUV, and I love it for that reason.  We only use the DVD player for long trips (defined as 3+ hours--though most every trip we take is 6+).  We do 6+ long trips each year.  My kids (ages 5.5 and nearly 3) have never, ever asked for the DVD player to be turned on otherwise, and, if they did, I would just say, no, it's only for long trips.

When we bought a minivan recently, we could only get the DVD player with the big expensive premium package (including navigation), and we didn't want all of that.  So we bought one of the aftermarket installed players from the dealership, the ones in the headrest.  They can play two separate movies or one can feed the same movie from the other, which is nice now when they watch the same things and later when they might want to watch different things.  They are controlled by touch screens, which, again, will be useful down the road when the boys can control them themselves, but right now they can't (can't reach them from car seats and probably couldn't really work them properly either).  So I'm forced to be turning around, putting DVDs in and out, using the touch screen to start/stop, etc.  It's been kind of annoying.  The factory-installed unit is so much nicer.  But, again, if your kids can handle all that on their own, it wouldn't be an issue for you.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics