What are the options others have used, what did it cost, and where did you buy it?

I'm looking for the best deal on a LCD with good picture quality. The farenheit 7" is appealing and I have also found a 7" Panasonic on e-bay, but haven't read anything about those here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I went with the 7" wide screen LCD by farenheit. It requires no cutting or changes to the dash of any kind! It 100% fills the cubby with viewing area VS alot of the others where you lose alot of space b/c there is either a really big frame around it, buttons on the bottom or side, etc. Pretty funny b/c its almost as if they made the 7" WS for the Z's cubby. It fits every corner with like a 1/16 of an inch and is all screen!!

I got a great deal on it from Nazar! He actually has one more too! I highly suggest both, this LCD and Nazar!!! FARENHEIT T-7001MHR

 

I went with the xenarc 700TSV, it is 7" touch screen with 1 monitor in, and 2 av inputs. 580$. free shipping.

the xenarc site says it now displays 1600x1200 resolution, the highest Ive found from any screen of this size. tho that number seems to change by the day... the other day it said 1280x1040 I think or whatever the set is. Im not sure what is changing that is making the resolution higher.

 

does the xenarc 7" requre cutting or modifying dash?

 

No

 

well... there are button below it that let you adjust the screen, these get cut off, but cutting the dash wont help. Ive heard some CRAZY ways around it tho.

1 was to wire these switches in parallel with the regular switches, then mount them behind the panel, and the switches are activated with a magnet. you can do the same with any type of switch, and you could run the wires to the switches to wherever you want. you could maybe if you were so inclined wire it to the ocmputer and control the settings from there.

but you could also do none of the above, its sposed to fit perfectly, and no adjustmants are ever needed, so they wont ever be used at all... so you could just hide them and let em be.

 

Ares, are you putting a system in? What are you using the monitor for and when is all of this happening? I have been talking to a few people about installing something in mine.

 

all of the stuff is ordered, coming to my house towards the end of the week, then Im doing the install over spring break. using the xenarc touch screen monitor for display. hopefully itll be installed by the end of the week, but I think Im gaurenteed atleast 5 unforseen problems...

you going to the autoshow? Ill be there at about 3 on saterday, Ill be the one stuffing copies of the run in his shirt.

 

Yeah im going on Thursday, because I am going out of town for the weekend. What all are you gonna install? I will be back in Alpharetta on Wed. maybe we can get together if you are gonna be there.