It still bewilders me that the big SUV’s like our Expy’s, and the GM equivalents don’t have well integrated, intuitive rear entertainment systems. My wife’s old ‘08 Honda Pilot came from the factory with a flip down widescreen monitor with the DVD player in the front dash, two IR headphones, 3 headphone jacks and auxiliary input in the rear, and could be controlled from the front or rear of the vehicle.
Then I got my ‘15 Expy with the dual screens on the headrests, granted each with its own DVD player, that you can’t control from the front at all, not even to turn them on and off. You can play what’s on one, on the other, and vice versa, but the audio is headphone jack, IR, or goodness me what were they thinking FM modulation through the front headunit Radio (and it sucks).
Ours use the physical headphones as I find the IR sets to fragile or poor fitting for my young kids. And the older has to unbuckle to help my little one change DVDs or turn on the screen, etc.
With what they charge for these RES’s it astonishes me that they haven’t made more significant strides. Hell just put one in out of a Honda Odyssey. I honestly feel the large SUV market would benefit greatly from a properly integrated system, as I think there are a fair number of minivan owners that would much prefer an SUV but can’t live without a well designed RES.
Hell, that’s my $.02 anyway. [emoji1]
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