I was looking for double din head units and saw this...anybody heard of these guys??

http://www.rosenentertainment.com/rosenindash.htm

 

Yeah.. I was looking for a double din unit myself such as this one, so I found a place that had them for way cheap. They had older silver ones in stock that noone wanted, got it for like $720 with the dual TV antennas. So I had it sent to me and I hooked it up to a power supply I had here in the office to play around with it. First impression, it was way cheesy.

1. The interface was horrible and ugly (on screen)
2. There was no sub-out channel (non fading)
3. I couldn't do multi-sourcing like my alpine, eg: watch TV and listen to my mp3 player from AUX input.
4. The cd player interface was horrible, well, there really wansn't an interface, all the display showed was the time of the track in the way upper left hand corner.
5. The navigation has still not been implemented and probably never will.
6. When opening the front display to eject/insert a CD/DVD, you had to press the display button like 5 times to get it to finally retract into the closed position (had angular settings but it should have been implemented by a long press not short press)

I mean, for $700 i'ts not a super bad deal, but if they put a little more R&D into it, it would have been a kick *** player. So, I sent it back. I think the only ones I can find that are similar and have a really sweet interface are from Japan, Eclipse and Alpine make a nice one but they're not cheap plus they're japanese. I personally don't like the 1-din retracting LCD units, I've had one from Alpine and it was annoying... It gets in the way, and the motors wear out quick making it useless.

 

i agree japan has the better double din HU's but i can't read friggen japanese..and I will have to a get a japanese to english dictionary to work my radio

 

You'd be surprised, alot of jap headunits nowadays are in english... (excluding some areas of course), but they're workable.