Kenwood DDX419 In-Dash Head Unit Car Stereo

This is a great stereo, bluetooth (with the Iphone) works perfect unlike other reviewers suggest. I have not used it with other phones so I can't speak for android or blackberry systems. I added the Iphone adapter cable since it charges the phone while using the other features and allows for Netflix. The Garmen application is a little pricy so I just downloaded the 99 cent trial. It does not show on the screen but the sound works through the stereo. It's over $100 for the full application which adds the on-screen support. The phone works flawlessly through both bluetooth and hard wire connection. I connected a subwoofer and all together the system sounds great. Wired the video wire to a ground and the video works all the time instead of just in park as recommended the the manual. The backup camera works pretty good, I connected mine to manual mode to avoid having to tap into the backup sensor. One push of a button to activate the backup view, not too inconvenient. Netflix works OK but the picture is not as clear as a DVD is, but streaming video never is.... DVD picture is perfect as well as the sound! Pandora is fantastic. The XM radio connection has changed from the older Kenwood stereos so I was not able to use the older XM system, but with Pandora you can live without XM radio. Overall I am very hapy with this purchase.

1.5 years installed in a 2007 Corvette. When I installed it, after being used for a half hour, the screen would freeze. On trip I would have to restart the radio often to change channels. Kenwood support was useless to me and the firmware updates did nothing. At one year into the radio ownership a new feature popped up. Now the radio restarts itself. You would think this is a bonus, right? Nope now the screen freezes and I have to restart it and then it reboots itself for no reason. Currently shopping for a replacement.

Great head unit, easy to install, display is great, and touch screen is great

Bought for an 2006 f-150, easy to instal with the help of someone who is slightly mechanically inclined. Got the metra 70-5520 wiring harness and it conected easily, just youtubed how to ground the parking brake override so passengers can still watch movies when i drive. Bluetooth works great for calls and playing music through (i have an iphone). All and all a really sharp looking head unit that works great!

Looks awesome, very stylish Bluetooth works very well with Android Phones and Iphones, the MICROPHONE that the unit comes with needs to be placed somewhere in the car where it has a good line of sight with the person using the phone, you can't hide the mic in the dash some-place and expect it to work well. The BlueTooth works with basic Music Play-Back functions on Android Phones (will let you control Play/Pause/Skip and will display the track and artist information, you can also control Pandora through Blue-Tooth using the basic media functions as Pandora is "car stereo compatible", but pandora will not display playlist information. The Ipod music menu works well but it syncs a little slow (takes a while to skip songs sometimes, but it could be because im using a generation 1 ipod touch). The GPS is sadly not stand-alone, so you can't use it without an iphone and it ONLY WORKS WITH IPHONE GPS so.... yea if your an android user NO NAVIATION FOR YOU =/ The front 2.5mm AUX works well with standard cables (you dont have to buy the special Kenwood media cables) so long as its connected to an ipod, it wont work with an android phone, but you can plug in an old ipod activating the headset jack and then plug the head phone jack into your android phone/tablet etc and it will play the music from your android device so long as the ipod is connected. The above "hack" is not needed if your android device has bluetooth though so really pointless to even go out of the way to use the wires to play music off your device. Quick Hints and Quirks about this unit: 1) In bluetooth media play-back mode, the default setting is for the reciever to play through only the front left and right speakers, you have to go into settings under "mode" while playing back media from bluetooth devices and enable rear speakers, this will fix that problem because without the full range your music sounds "flat". 2) The green parking break wire needs to be grounded I beleive in order for you to play DvD's, but I have not tried it yet (they disable DvD play-back in radios because most states dont allow you to have dvd's playing in the car when driving (stupid really because everyone who has this has it purely as a movie player for friends/little kids in the car for long - drives.... its not like any responsible driver actually would watch a movie while driving for god-sake. 3) The radio does not come with an antenna wire which is dumb 4) The radio does not have "key-sense" so if you have a newer model car with key-sense like a VW Jetta or Passat you will have to manually turn the radio - OFF everytime you exit your car by holding the power off button for 2 sec, there are ways to wire the radio to get around this problem and have it turn off when the ignition key is not "in", but its a pain in the butt, and not something your average joe will figure out. Nice things about the radio 1) It has a good amount of power, nothing special but it has plenty of juice. 2) The Screen is very nice 3) The customization is nice 4) The button placement and menu is very easy to access / simple you can easily perform any function on the radio quickly even while driving because its so intuitive... (everything is one click away) so your not stuck there driving and struggling to navigate menus and crap its very well organized. 5) Bluetooth devices connect very fast! and it even has an auto-connect feature which is nice if you hop in and out of your car a lot. 6) It has Sub-woofer Pre-Out so you can hook it up to an amp in the trunk very easily. 7) Pandora Compatibility is nice, but Pandora has been a little slow on my 4g plan as of late (time to load songs on my phone have been slow) not really a con for the radio, more for my service provider. 8) Speaker Setup has a lot of options, you can really get it to sound "just the way you want" if you tweak it (lots of options). CONS: No HD RADIO (Not really a problem for me because I bought this to use my ipod/phone so that I dont have to listen to commercials for garbage on the radio all day, and radio stations always play the same garbage song over and over so ... yea) No "real android stuff" its more built for IPOD/APPLE devices, but its still connects and lets you play music and stuff and talk on your phone if you have an android phone, its just more of a "simple bare-bone" interface, while the ipod interface is a little bit more fancy (pointless fluff if you ask me, not really a con, you can do everything on an android device that you can with an apple device except the Navigation APP that you have to pay 100$ for anyway so yea... I just think of it as a radio with no navigation, which is fine because 1) I know where im am going, and 2) My phone has navigation turn by turn anyway! so yea who cares? NO Key-Sense (annoying slightly) You have to trick it to play DvD's while driving (not really their fault, its Big Brothers fault for making stupid pointless regulations and "laws" that no one obeys anyway.... pffft) Anyway its a nice radio if I had another car that this would fit in, I would probably buy a 2nd one even though it was a little over-priced for what it has to offer.

I got a 'new to me car' 2 weeks ago with a 10 year old stereo and was very excited to order my new kenwood ddx419 dvd/stereo. It arrived in a plain, opened, too large cardboard box with nothing padding or protecting it. 2 days ago I paid $120 to have someone professionally install it and when it was all put in and they started testing it out none of the buttons worked. They called kenwood and were walked through all the troubleshooting steps and the guy from Kenwood said if it was him he'd return it while I still could. Great, except I'm out the install money and now I have to pay someone to take it back out and have no stereo at all. I can't express how disappointed I am. One comment to Amazon, they were really nice/helpful about the whole thing even though it shipped from premier electronics and wasn't their problem.

I installed this system to replace a factory original sound system on my 2004 Toyota Tacoma. Installation was reasonably straightforward and I was able to use the original mounting hardware in the truck for the receiver. At the same time, I installed a Kenwood KSC-SW10 150 watt powered, self-enclosed subwoofer system, a Sirius XM tuner and a backup camera. It took longer than I expected (what job doesnt'?), but the results have been absolutely phenomenal, especially when using my I-pod for music. I couldn't be more pleased with the entire installation and would recommend it to anyone wanting to upgrade their sound system.