I want to learn more about mobile video and the features available. I am more interested in the in dash flip out screens:
1) What formats do they play? 2) What options are the more important ones to look for? 3) Do any of them come with NAV? 4) Can they operate as multimedia and still work as your car deck with all the features of your car deck (ie. speaker balance, frequency cutoffs, etc.)? 5) Which makes are more reliable if there are any?
1) pretty much all good brands, (alpine, kenwood, pioneer, clarion, etc..) will play cd, dvd, mp3
2) price. looks. mostly depends on what you want to do with, and how you want it to work.
3) Pioneer, i believe, is the only one that comes with nav stuff. all the others require a seperate add-on system, to use nav
4)yes
5) subective to opinion. for the most part, alpine, kenwood, pioneer, clarion, blaupunkt are pretty much your safest bet in terms or quality product and reliable customer support. other than those you are kind of taking the kind of chance i don't like to take with my money.