Product Description

Movies and TV programs are shown with superb clarity on the widescreen 7-inch monitor of this double-DIN system. Operation is easy, with a user-friendly touch panel and GUI (Graphical User Interface). The disc slot and SD card slot are neatly hidden behind the monitor.The KW-AVX800 features advanced USB functions, allowing connection with a portable HDD, USB memory, and digital audio players for playback of MP3/WMA/WAV/AAC audio files and even DivX /JPEG/MPEG1/2 video files.The KW-AVX800 comes with a built-in 5.1ch DTS Digital Surround and 5.1ch Dolby Digital decoder, which lets you create a realistic sound field onboard.

Product Details

• Brand: JVC
• Model: KW-AVX800
• Dimensions: 5.73 pounds
• Display size: 7

Features

• in-dash DVD receiver with built-in amp (20 watts RMS/50 peak x 4 channels)
• motorized 7" screen with touchscreen controls
• DVD +/-R/RW, DivX, JPEG, MPEG playback
• compatible with iPod adapter, Bluetooth adapter, satellite radio
• inputs: SD card slot, rear USB input, one A/V input

Customer Reviews

"But it says on the box..."
I purchased this unit specifically because I wanted certain functions. After extensive research, I found that this device said in the product specs that it would do everything I wanted. While technically true, it performed so poorly in some areas that I in the end was disappointed. I have now tried several units trying to get these functions, including this unit. Ultimately, I returned this unit, though because it was not good enough at all of the things I wanted it to do. If you do not care about some of the things I do (or you care about other things - for example, for me DVD playback was irrelevant, so I did not even try this out), the unit might be fine for you.

Keep in mind, in order to do a lot of these things, you need to buy a separate breakout box or adapter that is not included in the price. Here is a list of what I wanted it to do & how it did:

1. Bluetooth integration. Fantastic. Best voice dial integration on any product I tried. There is a dedicated hard button to turn on voice dial that can be accessed no matter what mode the unit is in. Call quality was also good. It also accessed and played in a very good quality my music on my bluetooth smartphone. Truly, best in breed, and if all you care about is bluetooth integration, then this unit is for you.
2. Ipod integration. Not so good. Although the unit is touch screen, instead of listing items on the screen and letting you touch them to select, it instead only goes through one item in a menu tree at a time & then you have to hit an "enter" button that is not marked as enter. It looks like they took a non-touch screen interface & used it in this unit instead of writing one to take advantage of the touch screen capabilities. Worse, it sometimes looses time scyc with my latest generation ipod (I tried both a new 8 gb nano and a new 80 gb classic & had the same problems). Basically, the time would come up with "00:00" quite often, and then stay there. Because the unit continually thinks you are at the beginning of a track, it will not let you rewind. This can be a problem with books on tape or podcasts. This happened at least a few times per week. My installer said JVC was aware of this problem.
3. XM integration. OK but not great. It suffers from the same annoying lack full touch screen integration that exists for ipod, albeit to a much lesser extent. You can, for example, select a preset by touching the channel. However, my xm presets would often disappear from the preset list. What I mean is that the slot for the preset would be there, but the channel name would be missing. This happened almost daily. My installer said JVC was aware of this problem.
4. Control of unit from factory redundant controls on steering wheel. Poor. I wanted to be able to control basic functions on the unit from the factory steering wheel controls so I would not have to take my eyes off the road. Sometimes it worked, sometimes (often) it did not. Volume down refused to work most of the time.

In the end, item 1 was great, item 2 was below average, item 3 was OK, and item 4 was poor. On balance, not good enough for me to keep.

Amazing!!!!!
In my opinion this is one of the nicest in dash multimedia players on the market! JVC seems to have thought of everything here. It has tons of inputs, AUX, SD, and USB. It will play pretty much everything. I have successfully played, mp3, dvd5, dvd9, divx, xvid, jpg, etc. The specs only say DIVX format but I can confirm it does play XVID also. Apparently you can hook up an external USB hard drive and play files from that but I'm not having any luck with that myself yet. I read a review on crutchfield and the guy there said he has a 160gb portable hard drive hooked up loaded with movies, videos, mp3 etc and it plays it all. Maybe because my HD is self powered? It was formatted as NTFS so I tried FAT32 but it still won't recognise. I'll try another external HD and report back. But if you have a Double DIN spot in your car and can afford this player you will not be disappointed. The only thing I wish it has was album art for MP3's. Don't think it has that or I can't find it if it does.

Wow Excelent
Pros: Many Features, USB with Hard Drive Capability, SD Slot, Bluetooth Phone and Audio (Optional Adapter you have to Buy), Sound Quality.

Cons: USB and Large DVD disc takes time to read. Hard to learn Menus.

Well I bought 2 of these, one for me and the another one for my Brother, and letme tell you this is and awesome dvd player. It has many features, including usb reader and the capability of play divx and xvid also.. so you don't have to convert the movies you download from the internet, just put them on your usb drive or on a dvd or cd, Holds like 8 divx movies on a single DVD, that's what I call PERFECT. As I mentioned My brother's Car is a F150 truck and the dash lights are green, and my Kia Optima are Sky Blue, and Guess What, you can change the background color of the Head Unit so it can Match your car's dash lights. It has 12 diferent colors to choose from. and the bluetooth capability is awesome, You can talk without touching your phone, and it automatically uploads your phonebook and call registry. unfurtunaly my nokia doesn't support text message by bluetooth. but you can read sms fron the head unit. so what else do you want?

I will give it a 5