Kenwood DNX5140 6.1-Inch Wide Double-DIN In-Dash Nagivation with USB/iPod Direct Control/DVD Receiver
- Bluetooth-ready receiver with built-in Garmin navigation
- 4 x 50 Watts maximum power with two 2V pre-amp outputs
- 6.1-inch TFT LCD touchscreen with 480 x 234 pixel resolution
- Direct iPod connection, USB music streaming, front panel A/V input, A/V output; add Kenwood adapters for HD/satellite radio, Bluetooth, and navigation
- One-year limited warranty
Product Description
6.1″ Wide Double-DIN Indash Nagivation with USB/iPOD Direct Control / DVD ReceiverAmazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description Kenwood’s DNX5140 is an all-around solution for your vehicle, providing you with movies, music, and built-in Garmin GPS Navigation with maps of the United States and Canada. Get where you need to go and have plenty of fun getting there.
Movies, music, and built-in GPS navigation. Click to enlarge. |
6.1-Inch Touchscreen with Variable Illumination
The DNX5140 puts intuitive control right at your fingertips with its 6.1-inch QVGA TFT Active Matrix Display and powerful, easy-to-use graphical user interface. Customize the unit’s front panel illumination with the new variable illumination palette of colors–match your interior tones, dash lighting, or whatever tickles your fancy. Selectable wallpapers and customizable backgrounds offer further personalization.
Built-In Navigation–Guidance by Garmin
This integrated navi system guides you everywhere with ease on the DNX5140′s 6.1-inch screen. All functions are intuitively controlled by touchscreen menus, and voice guidance works over the vehicle’s speaker system. There is no need to swap map discs since it comes with a built-in full-memory Garmin Navigation board that features maps of Canada, continental USA, Hawaii, and Alaska. Navigation feature include:
- Easy-to-use GUI (graphic user interface)
- More than 6 million points of interest
- Program up to 500 waypoints for long trips
- Text-To-Speech (TTS) Voice Guidance (English, French, Spanish)
- Selectable 2D or 3D Map Display
- Track Log Display
- Trip Computer
Built-in full-memory Garmin Navigation board that features maps of Canada, continental USA, Hawaii, and Alaska. Click to enlarge. |
A wide palette of colors are available using Variable Color Illumination. Click to enlarge. |
Bluetooth-ready: add the optional KCA-BT200 to enjoy hands-free phone operation or to listen to audio stored on Bluetooth devices. |
Enjoy Your Favorite Media
The DNX5140 is a media powerhouse, letting you play your favorite CDs and DVDs, along with several digital audio and video formats. The unit accepts DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, and CD-DA discs. It plays back AAC-LC, MP3, and WMA audio files; MPEG1 and MPEG2 video files; and can display JPG images. Throw your files on a disc or a USB device and enjoy them in your vehicle wherever you are.
And, of course, you still can listen to the AM/FM radio. Use Auto Memory to automatically add stations with good reception to presets, or enter them manually. The DNX5140 displays FM radio text when available as well as traffic information, and it allows you to enter station names.
Seamless Connection with iPod Video/Audio
Connect an iPod using the optional KCA-iP301V cable to enable full video (for iPods with video capability) and/or audio control. You’ll supply power to your iPod as well as charge it while you enjoy your music.
USB Direct Control
You can enjoy your favorite music, video, or images from USB devices like flash drives or MP3 players. When connecting a USB device, playback starts automatically. When a battery-powered USB device like an MP3 player is connected to this unit, it also gets a charge, so it’s ready to go with you when you exit the vehicle.
Input and Output
In addition to the iPod and USB support, you can use the DNX5140′s front auxiliary A/V input to connect external audio/video sources like video game systems.
The unit also features an A/V output for sending content to an additional screen in the vehicle.
For audio output, the DNX5140 has two sets of 2V RCA pre-amp outputs for system expansion (in addition to the on-board 50W x 4 amplifier).
Bluetooth Ready
Add the optional KCA-BT200 to enjoy hands-free phone operation or to listen to audio stored on Bluetooth devices.
HD and Satellite Radio Ready
The DNX5140 allows you to enjoy SIRIUS (requires CA-SR20V cable + Sirius Tuner) or XM (requires KCA-XM100V + XM Mini Tuner) radio in your vehicle. Enjoy a multitude of channels featuring music, news, talk shows, sports, and traffic information with CD quality sound.
You also can add an HD Radio tuner. When you connect an HD radio tuner, features of the unit are disabled and changed to HD Radio tuner features.
Rear Camera Input
The DNX5140 is ready for a rear camera, allowing you to monitor behind your vehicle as you back up.
What’s in the Box
Kenwood DNX5140, sleeve, trim ring, wiring harness, installation tools, installation manual, operation manual, warranty card.
Comments (5)
This unit is fairly easy to learn. Once you do, it will impress you with its functionality and tunability. Lots of functions and lots of fun! Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this for my wife for Christmas since she liked my pioneer Avic D-3. It isn’t as good as the Pioneer, but it does what it says it can. The maps are fairly accurate, with a few (why the heck is it making us turn here in the middle of this field) moments, but overall an average GPS system comparable with a Tom Tom or Garmin. The maps could have a little more deatail on them like more major road names instead of having to zoom way close to read the names of side streets and non-major roads. The GPS voice, lets just say that I-Robot it ain’t. The voice is horrid. It mispronounces too many common street names and sometimes isn’t clear on what it wants you to do. Example: instead of saying “Turn left on Morgan street ahead”, it says “Turn on Morgan stra all lef”. It’s like having a foreign exchange student in the car with you mispronouncing common words, you just have to laugh, interpret what it said to whomever is in the car with you, and drive on hoping you made that correct turn. Overall, decent for 600 bucks, but it could have been fine-tuned
Rating: 3 / 5
Pros:
- Excellent GPS
- The backlight is fine.
- AM/FM Radio is OK.
- Plays CDs
- Plays DVDs
Cons:
- Bluetooth is an add-on (6140 has it integrated, 5140 makes you buy a seperate add-on)
- XM is an add-on (More money, you need 2 special items to get this working, receiver and the connector. It works OK)
- Sirius is the same thing
- iPhone is also an add on (I think)
Gripe:
- We live in the day of having smarter, more open hardware in our daily components (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, to name a few). This software is outsourced and never updated. It freezes and is slow in some instances.
Tip: Buying online is cheaper than Best Buy.
Tip 2: Geek squad will install this if you ask.
Tip 3: You need a double-din adapter to use this if you don’t have one. You’ll have to google around for “Make Model Year” + “Double din”
Rating: 5 / 5
Easy to use and a very nice big screen. Would highly reccommend this product.]
The only down side is the adjustment of the brightness at night. Still learning and I might not have found the setting yet.
Other wise go out and get one. I used the ipod connection for a USB connection for a flash drive. Alot of music now.
Thanks Kenwood
Rating: 4 / 5
The Kenwood is great, however a little complicated. There are way too many buttons to press for certain features. Also, you can only pause your Ipod. It never really stops it.
Rating: 4 / 5
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