Pioneer AVH-P4300DVD 7 In-Dash Double-DIN DVD AV Receiver with iPod/iPhone

 

Pioneer AVH-P4300DVD 7" In-Dash Double-DIN DVD AV Receiver with iPod/iPhone Control, Pandora

 

Item Description

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Pioneer's 2011 AV receivers make entertainment less difficult, and the AVH-P4300DVD is no exception. The very first issue you are going to notice is the tremendous 7-inch widescreen touch display, along with a touchscreen interface Pioneer has tweaked to perfection. Customize factors to your preference, and delight in access to your favorite DVDs and CDs, SD Cards, or USB thumb drives complete of your favorite files. You will get direct manage of your iPod or iPhone, and Pioneer's Advanced Sound Retriever to place some life back into these compressed audio files. Pioneer's Auto EQ function lets you use the CD-M20 microphone to additional optimize the receiver's EQ for your car. And when it really is time to grow, add Bluetooth hands-absolutely free calling, GPS navigation, satellite radio, and more with Pioneer add-on devices.

Entertaining, Customizeable Interface
Enhanced Interface
The AVH-P4300DVD functions a fun and convenient touch user interface that's a breeze to navigate. Naturally tap, swipe, or drag for intuitive controls. A new user interface makes direct operation pressure-absolutely free by eliminating complicated layered selection displays, so access to desired functions is smoother and easier than ever. You can also decide on in between Complete Operation Mode for even more manage, or a stripped-down Simple Mode with just the fundamentals.
Direct Source Choice
Switch to an additional supply basically by touching a desired source icon. You can access another targeted source immediately without having defaulting back to the menu display.
Make It Your Own
A number of customization and digital photo frame functions also make it straightforward to set up your receiver to your aesthetic preferences. Pick amongst 5 (Blue/Red/Amber/Green/Violet) colors for the display and 112 totally different colors to match receiver illumination to the dash. With Dual Decode, the receiver can display JPEG images when it plays music from your USB device or SD memory card. With one particular touch of the Capture button, you can save a favorite JPEG image as a wallpaper to the receiver. You can customize controls also, making shortcuts to access often put to use features in the menu display.

See the Large Picture
The AVH-P4300DVD boasts a brilliant 7-inch widescreen color touchscreen display, with WQVGA (480x240) resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio, for easy navigation of attributes and a really serious foundation for your entertainment.
Connectivity and Versatility
Versatile Media Playback
Play back your preferred CDs and DVDs, along with many different digital files: MP3/WMA/AAC audio, DivX/DVD/VCD video, and JPEG pictures.
USB Port/SD Card Slot
Connect a USB thumb drive loaded with files, and get pleasure from playback of files from your digital library. Or do the identical with an SD Card, for an even extra portable alternative.
iPod Direct Manage
Connect your iPod/iPhone and delight in music straight from your device, with complete control of unit functions appropriate from the receiver. If you'd favor, switch over to "application mode" to manage from the iPod/iPhone itself.
Pandora Integration
Fans of the Online music service Pandora, rejoice! The AVH-P4300DVD, thanks to Pioneer's new Pandora Prepared function, can give you direct control of Pandora through your iPhone. Launch Pandora on your connected iPhone, and you'll be able to expertise Pandora via your receiver, total with bookmarking and thumbs up/down buttons.
Audio/Video Overall performance
Dual-Zone Audio/Video
This receiver makes it possible for rear seat passengers to delight in DVD or CD content material via added rear screens and headphones, even though the front passenger and driver operate navigation or listen to audio from other sources simultaneously.
Auto EQ
It really is tough to reproduce music effectively in a car, due to the fact speaker positioning is constrained by interior space and other situations. These limitations can lead to sound phase distortion, as properly as speaker sound reflection against glass and absorption by dashboard and seats. Pioneer's one of a kind Auto EQ function tailors certain musical characteristics according to your taste, and utilizes a microphone (the optional CD-M20) to monitor and analyze acoustics, then automatically fine-tunes all frequency bandwidths working with front and rear speaker digital parametric equalization. It's equivalent to the setup function on several residence theaters, and will let you dial issues in just proper for your car.

Sonic Center Manage
Additional audio obsessiveness from Pioneer--unless a listener is perfectly centered in a vehicle cabin, sound heard from some speakers will lag compared to the sound heard from other speakers. This outcome in unfocused soundstage and instable frequency characteristics. Sonic Center Control remedies this by adjusting frequency phase and acoustic characteristics by up to 15 actions, offering a clearer, focused soundstage.
Advanced Sound Retreiver
Hear the detail, warmth, and clarity that the artist initially wanted you to hear from compressed MP3, WMA and AAC files stored on disc, USB device, iPod/iPhone, and portable media players. Pioneer's Advanced Sound Retriever technologies restores information (primarily high-frequency information) that tends to get lost in the digital compression procedure.
Eight-Band EQ
With Pioneer's eight-band graphic equalizer, you can customize the equalization levels to ideal match the acoustics of your car or truck.
MOSFET Amplification
The AVH-P4300DVD cranks out 4 channels of 50 Watts with effective MOSFET amplification, and delivers three 4V RCA preamp outputs for expanding your method.
Bluetooth Prepared
Add Pioneer's CD-BTB200 Bluetooth adapter to let for protected, straightforward, hands-totally free calling and receiving with most Bluetooth wireless-enabled cell phones. Just touch the cell telephone icon in the receiver display for direct access to the Bluetooth display. Particular symbols will light up when a Bluetooth connection is established, and pairing is is uncomplicated and automatic. ten-important dialing via touchscreen is also now feasible on Pioneer receivers.
Area to Grow
The AVH-P4300DVD offers you a good featureset to begin with, but it is ready to expand to suit your requires. You can add Bluetooth as talked about above, along with GPS navigation, satellite radio, HD radio, and a rear-view camera in a snap. Get started out enormous, go larger.
What is in the Box
Pioneer AVH-P4300DVD 7" In-Dash Double-DIN DVD AV Receiver, Remote Control, USB Cable (for Rear Connection), Trim Ring, Wiring Harness, Installation Hardware, Documentation
Pioneer 2011 A/V Receiver Comparison
DIN Size
Display
Preamp Outputs
Disc Formats
SD/SDHCMemory Card Slot
USB Interface
USBControl for iPod iPhone
App Mode
Digital Formats
AUX Input(Mini-Jack)
Dual Zone A/V
Advanced Sound Retriever
Auto EQ (Needs CD-M20)
Bluetooth(HFP)
Back-Up Camera Ready
Pandora Ready
AVH-P6300BT
1-DIN
7-Inch
three (four V)
DVD/CD
Built-In
Front
DivX, MP3, WMA, AAC
Front
Built-In
AVH-P4300DVD
2-DIN
7-Inch
3 (4 V)
DVD/CD
Built-In
Rear
DivX, MP3, WMA, AAC
Rear
Prepared (Add CD-BTB200)
AVH-P3300BT
2-DIN
5.eight-Inch
3 (four V)
DVD/CD
Built-In
Front
DivX, MP3, WMA, AAC
Front
Built-In
AVH-P2300DVD
2-DIN
five.eight-Inch
2 (2V)
DVD/CD
Front
DivX, MP3, WMA, AAC
Front
Prepared (Add CD-BTB200)
MVH-P8300BT
1-DIN
three-Inch
three (4 V)
Built-In
Front
DivX, MP3, WMA, AAC
Front
Built-In
MVH-P7300
1-DIN
3-Inch
three (4 V)
Built-In
Front
DivX, MP3, WMA, AAC
Front
Ready (Add CD-BTB200)
Pioneer AVH-P4300DVD Double Din DVD / CD with 7” Touch Screen LCD Display, Pandora Link, MP3 / WMA / AAC Playback, iPod/iPhone Audio Video via Rear USB, 3 Pair Hi-Volt RCA Preouts, Dual Zone and Navigation Choice.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 11 x 6.7 inches ; 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 20 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B004HW6F7Y
• Item model number: AVH-P4300DVD
  

Client Critiques

Updated 9-16-11
NOTE that this evaluation is for both the PIONEER AVH-P4300 and Pioneer CD-BTB200BT as I feel they are both a required for most users with phones particularly IPhones.
Absolutely everyone wants to hear how great this head unit is as it definitely is, and some want to know what flaws it may have which it has. Hold in thoughts this is a individual assessment my opinion. Let me start by asking Pioneer...what is the sense of acquiring such outstanding iPhone and iPod compatibility and functionality without having acquiring the most basic IPhone functionality? Producing and receiving calls with seamless music interruption, and fundamental phonebook access). The PIONEER AVH-P4300 DVD is advertised with Bluetooth compatibility with the Pioneer CD-BTB200BT Bluetooth module, Though it will probably be "compatible", there is a genuine lack of integration with the PIONEER AVH-P4300 DVD and CD-BTB200BT Bluetooth unit.
POSITIVES:
BLOOTOOTH:
While especially simple, it functions for incoming and outgoing calls most of the time.
Sound superior from Bluetooth is quite fantastic.
INTERNAL PROGRAMMING / Integration / Sound High-quality:
The screen is responsive to touch with rather tiny lag.
Great navigation in music / video and all menus for settings.
Good IPOD manage
APP Mode
Pandora integration
Auto EQ (setup microphone essential)
5-band EQ
In a position to output to a second screen applying two numerous sources or each screens to one particular source
Sounds rather superior with the support of Auto EQ and other settings or 5 band graphic EQ.
Exceptional soundstage and presence when the Auto EQ is used.
Fine integration with IPOD / IPhone 4.
4V preamp outputs
Lots of connections on the back
7" screen is vibrant (appears to look greatest when you turn on the black level in image adjustments)
You can change the viewing angle
Plays DVD's
Bluetooth Audio Streaming has very fine sound
This Head unit sounds definitely amazing when set up ideal - even in a high end component process.
NEGATIVES / Bugs / Challenges:
BLOOTOOTH:
Every single time Bluetooth connects - no sound until I disconnect and reconnect the iPhone or go into the streaming decision menu and choose the "Dock Connector" - even when BT Audio is set to manual - it connects nevertheless. FYI: There are 2 BT connection choices displayed on the iPhone 4 for the CD-BTB200, mine are referred to as "Pioneer BT unit2" (for audio streaming), the other is "Dock Connector" (for telephone uses).
About half the time when I answer the telephone on the head unit - it answers, but music is playing via the IPhone 4 earpiece along with the individual I am trying to talk to - it's a discomfort to switch to the music supply and pause it, then switch back to the phone screen so the person on the other finish can hear me! (It really is a lot easier to just unplug the CD-IU200V cable). This is not a predicament with the IPhone 4 - it is a problem with the Pioneer CD-BTB200BT Bluetooth method - confirmed with a pioneer technician. I had a Sony MEX-BTB2800 (paid $109.00) which did all Bluetooth functions completely (the Sony MEX-BTB2800 is a fairly simple head unit and does not compare to this Pioneer unit, but it has good Bluetooth integration compared to this). Pioneer also informed me that the CD-BTB200BT process is old technologies that was developed about five years ago. No wonder there are so a lot of complications with it!
Cannot seem to register much more than 1 Bluetooth device or juggle connections
No phonebook functions - unrecognizable / unusable call history / Bluetooth functions.
Can not dial from the screen or import your telephone book or browse call background (I assume this does help final call dialing, but there are no labels for the function buttons to use this and you cannot see the quantity you are dialing on screen, and so on.)
Audio Streaming is an significant function for me so my family members can stream from an IPAD or IPOD's, but I nevertheless need to have to use my telephone on Bluetooth - will not do both. Will need to be in a position to juggle two connections. You have to entirely disconnect 1 to connect to one more...understandable, but there is no menu choice to do this intuitively. Also, the volume level for Bluetooth phone need to be separated from audio volume and remembered (like my inexpensive Sony unit did) so if you had been listening to loud music and you get a call...the person on the other end will be quite loud until you turn the volume down.
Overall, the Pioneer AVH-P4300 has poor Bluetooth integration when made use of with the separately available CD-BTB200BT adapter. Quality Bluetooth integration will need to be built in to all mobile units particularly when advertised. A number of electronics 5-6 yrs. older have far better Bluetooth.
Another reviewer on AMAZON states "It boggles my mind how lesser Pioneer models like P3300BT have full Bluetooth phonebook help, and full caller background, but their additional high priced line has only crippled Bluetooth." And I feel the identical way - particularly when we paid so significantly alot more with the CD-BTB200. Everybody expects stellar functionality with a separate component like this - we paid a lot more and got so significantly much less functionality than the less expensive units with built in BT.
VIDEO:
IPhone four Video and audio is constantly out of sync a little - it can be a tiny annoying. In talking with a Pioneer technician, he told me of a programming sequence to alter from digital to analog mode that might resolve this issue, on the other hand, at a (big) cost to the sound reproduction in analog mode. The process is to start with the ignition off, then push and hold each mode and eject buttons - holding them in although turning ignition on and waiting until you hear a single beep. The identical procedure is supposed to be utilized to revert back to digital mode, but I couldn't get it to go back so I just reset the complete unit once again with the reset button. I do not see this as an sufficient fix to the predicament if it reduces the audio top quality. I attempted it and the sound was a bit lifeless, lacked punch, clarity and detail.
Though this unit will play videos from your iPhone whereas multitasking on the iPhone, it will quit playing video (but continues audio) for video files if you either close the screen that is open on your iPhone four when playing iPod/iPhone music videos/motion pictures, or if you turn off the telephone display (considering it is also vivid at night) by touching the energy button on the IPhone four. There is a perform around that will allow you to multitask on the iPhone four and will allow you to turn off your screen and nonetheless watch video Ahead of finding the video playing, close the iPod system on the telephone, then select the video/movie track (from the Pioneer interface) by means of the video menu - now you can multitask and use other programs on your telephone, or you can turn off the display of your phone while playing videos or music from your iPhone. Considering that it currently has the ability, I feel it must be programmed to automatically play in the background.
The resolution of the screen is low, even compared to most high end smartphones, and is just not sharp, though the picture excellent is still really excellent.
INTERNAL PROGRAMMING / Integration / Sound Quality:
NO MP4 assistance (SD) and decreased sound good quality from high excellent files on an SD card.
It is a small annoying that the unit will often start playing the same song each time you connect the cable to the iPhone or IPOD (chosen alphabetically). The AVH-P4300 does not remember what song or video it was final playing when you disconnect the CD-IU200V cable. By no means remembers exactly where you left off when utilizing IPOD control when you unplug. It need to operate like Pandora on the iPhone or other electronics it begins exactly where you left off.
The AVH-P4300 does NOT have a flash chip or battery backup for all of you custom settings...so when you require to disconnect the battery, (which all of us occasionally have to do for service, etc.), all custom setup is LOST, like the Auto EQ setup, and so on. It will be just like you bought the unit and just pulled it out of the box. No EQ settings or any customization is saved. This is a main discomfort in the A - specially if you have set up the Auto EQ. Tailoring the method to your tastes and setting up the Auto EQ once more will take about 15-20 minutes even when familiar with setup.
"Hiss" noise when moderate to heavy equalization is utilised - specially Auto EQ. Even though this has a CEA2006 rating of 91dBA on the amplifier section, the preamp section with moderate to heavy EQ settings I could guess could be in the 55-60 dB Signal to Noise range. The signal to noise rating is when employing no EQ adjustments. As soon as you start out to enhance the EQ bands the hiss becomes worse. The hiss gets progressively worse the far more you boost the band dB - even at low volume or typical listening levels. (don't confuse this with engine noise or external noise sources, as this is when the auto is off - also applying high high-quality RCA cables which have greater than 60 dB noise rejection going to amps which are set to about half gain Sources that develop the most hiss consist of Auto EQ, the 3 loudness settings, any of the Equalizer settings, (the "Potent" EQ choice is worse), and the Sound Retriever (S.Rtrv). With all of these off or with mild use, you will have a quite quiet technique with no hiss that draws focus in quiet tracks or in-in between tracks - acceptable even at high volumes.
If you use the Auto EQ, you can not fine tune the outcomes with the 8-band graphic equalizer. So I like what the Auto EQ did, but would like to fine tune (on the graphic EQ) a couple frequency bands for a little far more treble and low end....cannot do it unless you turn off the Auto EQ profile absolutely. What you can do whilst the Auto EQ profile is chosen is use the bass boost, choose from 3 loudness settings that sound like they up the bass, midrange and treble at the very same time,... Read more›

I've had mine for a tiny more than a week, and it is best. It tends to make my Mustang appear a lot nicer. I didn't plan on getting the navigational system until later, as I commonly know exactly where I am going anyway (operate + property).
The screen is really nice, and doesn't look as believed it will attrack fingerprints. The display is bright adequate during the day time, which was something I was worried about. The touch controls perform fine. The Divx performs outstanding. I have a ton of shows on Divx and they loaded just fine. DVDs play great, and load quick. The music shuffles music from all folders on a disc. My last player only shuffled music inside a folder, so this was a nice improvement.
I have not tried the SD card, but I program on loading a 32GB full of music and just keeping those songs in my automobile as a permanant play list.
There's only a few items I did not like, but it really is not a significant deal and absolutely nothing "incorrect" with the item. The album art only displays on Pandora/iPod devices. I have all of my MP3s setup with album art and none of my MP3's art on my burned DVD worked. Along with that is an issue with scrolling text, which is not a function of this item. So if you happen to be listening to a band named "The Presidents of the United States of America" (great band, btw), you will only see a thing like "The Presidents of t" as it cuts the text off. It would have been good to see scrolling text.
The last complaint I have about this unit is the lack of MP4 help with out an iPod. Most of the music videos I have are in MP4 format. If you are preparing on buying this unit and have a ton of music videos to burn in this format, I'd suggest just employing DivX's personal Convertor software program (just verify their site and buy the Pro for unlimited converts). It manages to maintain points at a low file size although maintaining close to-exact same high-quality video/audio. It is also rapidly. I managed to convert more than 45 music videos in under an hour.
Overall, a awesome DVD head unit that appears certainly good.

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