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"Would be perfect with a software update" on by chris916
Pros: Everything all in one, detachable face, small footprint
Cons: major usability shortcomings
Summary: The first day you get this installed in your car, you will be in awe of it and all it's abilities. After the first month you will wonder if anyone at JVC ever tried to actually use it themselves.
There are 2 major flaws--The navigation interface and the way music is stored/ripped to the hard drive. FOr the navigation, it is great if you already know the address. If you don't, then good luck. An example--There are 6 best buys within 10 miles of me. This will only find one of them. Why? Because for some reason you have to manually enter the city before searching, or it will only search 1.2 (ONE point TWO) miles for your current position. This is fine for gas stations and banks, but fails for just about anything else. Since you have to manually enter the city, it won't consider anything at all that's technically in another town. If you're from sacramento and in Rancho Cordova on Sunrise Blvd and want to find a best buy it will tell you there aren't any because technically they are in elk grove, roseville, citrus heights, folsom, sacramento and Natomas--even though the citrus heights store is maybe 2 mniles down the road. This makes the "search" feature pretty much useless if you're in an unfamiliar area. I had used a streetpilot, nuvi and telenav GPS units before this one and none of them had such limited searching ability. So if you're trying to find a store in a new area you have to search for the address on your cell phone first, then enter it into the navigation system.
Now for the music--It's fine if you buy a new CD and want to rip it to the hard drive, just put it in, enter the title and rip. But if you're like me and have a lot of music on your computer, it fails miserably. I have about 11 gigs on my computer organized by Artist-->Album-->Song. For some reason, the unit will only rip one folder deep. So if you had 500 Artists, with 2 albums each, and say 5 songs each, you would either have to make one huge folder with 5000 songs in it (which then makes scrolling through them almost impossible) or you have to Rip each album (and manually enter titles of folders) individually, which would take probably a year literally with that many songs. -
"amazing all in one product; it boggles the ming what it can do." on by beechmon
Pros: Small, easy installation, easy menu, price, performance.
Cons: If were touch screen... wow. a little hard to move playlists around
Summary: This unit is amazing. When people step into my car, they immediately see head unit, and are amazed with the music videos i normally view. To start, I bought this unit from Abes of Maine, and they were great to work with. Very good customer service.
Installation:
Next once i got the unit, it was a breeze doing the usual installation. Then came hooking up the GPS. You just ground the parking brake wire, and find the speed pulse(mine was right in the old head unit, so it was easy to find the wire and connect it, go to your local audio store to find the wire).
CD Player/hard drive: The waiting on loading your cd's to the KD NX5000 is prety fast. Of course you have to wait about 2 minutes for a normal CD, but just think of going to your local store and just leave your car on for 2 min, and have it coipy while your in there. To set the name of your album or genre, is a little hastle, but not too bad, would be nice if you could just title the cd while it's copying. But it's versitility is amazing. Being able to play music, then with the push of the button you have the map, then with another push of the av, you get the tuner or hard drive or the cd. It's very simple, my stupid room mate figured it out easily. Just a few things to maybe change for later models, but it doesn' hurt the product at all.
Navigation:
Now to talk about the gps a little. it is very good with directions, turn by turn voice guidance/ text to speech. It will tell you the name to the roads to turn on to. Plus it gives you plenty of notice before you turn. It also lowers the music, and plays the direction over the music, which helps when your watching a movie/ music video. The POI is also helpful and easy to use, the only problem is that you need to know what town the store your looking for is in, unless your using the vicinity mode, which is where your located around. I have previously had a garmin and a tom tom, and from my experience the garmin worked great and the new JVC works just as easily(just stay away from tom tom). Plus it is easy to plug in multiple destinations, and move them around if needed(for those delivery guys/girls out there). And calculates very quickly.
I would definitely recommend this product for anyone looking for a gps unit, that won't be taken out of the car, and the ease of not shuffling through cd's or entertaining other while your driving. And you can't be the price compared to the avic z1, and the eclipse avn 5945(i think). Either way, 700 versus 2000, there is not much of a difference, for what you recieve, if you even recieve more from the other units.
What's missing
Would be nice if they had a remote control with the alphabet on it for letter entry during address finding, and naming folders in the hard drive. It would also be nice having a visual/screen saver when your just playing music.
All in all, you can't beat this, if your car can't take a double din, or if your looking to bargain shop, this is the as they state, the best dollar per inch you can invest in. -
"Impressive, you will not be disapointed" on by dj4monie
Pros: Hard Drive Navigation, Divx Playback, 2 Line Sirius Radio Support
Cons: Can't sign up for RDS Traffic Trial, Some POI searches will turn up nothing
Summary: I got my NX-5000 installed just in time for my trip (not extended trip) to Vegas. Was having problems with my newly built HTPC so I decided to let a local installer put it in. There are only 3 extra wires that have to be connected in order for the Navigation to work.
Finding all the wires in my car were not hard, but again I just didn't have time to do it.
I ploted my trip to Vegas and it had me take a route I have taken before without Navi and it proved to be the fastest route to Vegas from the San Fernando Valley.
Once I got to Vegas I used it for everywhere I went. I only had to ask where something was once, as the map had old information and Im sure the source had not been updated before JVC released it to public. That is not JVC's fault, any Navi system can sometimes have you visit the old address of a business by accident.
All functions work fine, I haven't tried DVD/Divx playback yet. That is coming, so I will update that once I use it.
Some might think the screen is a bit small. PLEEASSSSSSE, I had people in the back seat and even THEY could read it without leaning forward.
The maps are clear and easy to read and you can advance the view if you need to see another turn, exit or even the next freeway you'll be taking.
All in all, its shizie!
I got it and a JVC Sirius Connect for less than what Crutchfield is charging. My unit came from JVC of Canada. I'm not sure if it has maps of Canada on it or not...
Updated
Read the manual fully!
I finally figured out how to join the RDS traffic. It works, kinda. It depends on where you are. If your in a remote area, don't expect it to work. If your in a major city it should help you navigate around accidents. I haven't really tried it yet.
You can also add stops along your route and I finally figured that out as well.
So like I said read the manual, the english section is 114 pages...
More ******** can be added later Im sure so keep track of JVC's japanese site as that's where the manaul says updates will appear.
The NX5000 isn't even on JVC's North American web site yet.Updated
Read the manual fully!
I finally figured out how to join the RDS traffic. It works, kinda. It depends on where you are. If your in a remote area, don't expect it to work. If your in a major city it should help you navigate around accidents. I haven't really tried it yet.
You can also add stops along your route and I finally figured that out as well.
So like I said read the manual, the english section is 114 pages...
More ******** can be added later Im sure so keep track of JVC's japanese site as that's where the manaul says updates will appear.
The NX5000 isn't even on JVC's North American web site yet. -
"Do not purchase for listening to audio books. It does not remember location on CD or in memory." on by jnichols999
Pros: Hard drive if you dont mind restarting at the beginning of tracks if the unit is turned off or the AV source is changed.
Cons: Does not remember location on CDs or disk. It always restarts at the beginning of the last track played before turning off the unit or switching to a diffrerent source.
Summary: For listening to audio books it is useless since it cannot remember a location within a track. It starts over at the beginning of the last track played if the unit is turned off or the AV source is changed.
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"Almost but fatal flaws" on by hardrivn
Pros: GPS HD Single DIN
Cons: Fatal flaw with this device, when playing music from the hard drive YOU CANNOT PAUSE OR STOP. Checked the manual and those buttons are not used when playing music from the HD. I contacted support and they confirmed it.
Summary: Fatal flaw with this device, when playing music from the hard drive YOU CANNOT PAUSE OR STOP. Seriously you cannot pause or stop when playing music that you ripped to it's internal hard drive, checked the manual and those buttons are not used when playing music from the HD. I contacted support because I figured I had to be doing something wrong and they confirmed it. Also there is no True Mute since you cannot stop or pause the music from the hard drive you have to turn the volume way down if you still want to use it for NAV, thankfully NAV audio is different from main volume so you can still hear directions. Other than that it would be nice if it would automatically pause when you recieve a phone call over the bluetooth and it would be nice if it had speed sensitive volume (it has the GPS, it has electronic volume control why not?). JVC could fix these issues with a simple software update but they have not.
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