Car Electronics

The international automotive electronics market is envisioned to grow at 9% for a total of $173.7 billion by 2013. Sales for 2008 are approximated at $114.5 billion. Strong growth is approximated in driver assistance, car safety systems, and amusement while the non-entertainment sector buyer retail, powertrain, and body electronics segments will see dissimilar growth rates. According to a new exploration on the non-entertainment automotive electronics market, the international market of non-entertainment automotive electronics is approximated to touch US$52.1 billion by 2010. The forecast of this growth is approximated to be evenly disseminated amidst all product segments and regions. The greatest demand is expected from the emergent markets in Asia and East and Central Europe. The powertrain electronics will proceed to dominate and it constitute 32% of the international market in last few years. It will sustain till 2010. The body/chassis electronics will carry on to rise at an intermediate growth of 9.4% per year till 2010. During this period, the global market will increase from US$4.0 billion to US$6.3 billion. The manufacturers are looking to heighten the performance and reduce overall scheme cost, so the trend to totally integrated schemes will proceed allround the forecast period. The safety and comfortableness constitute almost 50% of the international non-entertainment automati electronics market at the current time. It was approximated to be at US$18.5 billion in 2005. Overall safety and comfortableness accounted for 50.3% of the international market in 2005 at US$18.5 billion. Multiplexing/electrical distribution, body controllers and navigation, all of them are fore casted to grow at a rapid rate till 2010. The navigation market, combined with audio and amusement will be one of the quickest growing division of the automati electronics market. The driver supporting systems, like night vision, collision avoidance and lane departure warning is also expected to show strong growth. Toyota Motor Corp. is the undisputed leader in hybrid car developing market. Honda Motor Co. Ltd is at second spot, attempting hard to grab a good deal of of Toyota’s share. General Motors Corp. dominates in the United States market and has the broadest portfolio in the hybrid market. However it lags far behind in the contest in terms of sales. With the continuous betterment in hybrid technologies and decreasing constructing costs, the powertrain segment will have to experience higher growth. Car Electronics Dual XR4110 Car Flash Media Player XR4110 Car Stereo Receivers This “mechless” receiver from Dual Electronics does away with mechanical playback entirely–no discs, no cassettes–just your digital music collection on USB gadgets or SD cards, your favored digital music player through the auxiliary input, or a great deal of AM/FM radio. An lowpriced mechless receiver for music fan with a huge collection of MP3/WMA files. Connect USB devices, SD cards, or thru the auxiliary input jack. View a feature diagram. Click to enlarge. USB/SD Playback The XR4110 features a commodious front-panel USB (1.1) port, for playback of your bestloved MP3/WMA files. Connect USB widgets with up to 16 GB capacities, and access hours of programming. Right next to the USB port is a slot for SD cards. Support for SD cards is likewise 16 GB, giving you yet another storage option for your MP3s and WMAs. SD cards are even more commodious for speedily swapping out, for an almost infinite amount of music right there in your glove compartment. Auxiliary Input Of course, most folks with a significant digital music collection also have a bestloved iPod or other MP3 player. The ordinary 3.5-mm mini jack aux input lets you connect and take delight in it. And yes, you may even hook up a portable CD player if you wanted a lot of good old-fashioned skipping playback. AM/FM Radio Listen to your favored morning show or catch up on the traffic, news, or weather with the built-in AM/FM tuner. Eighteen FM and 12 AM presets let you without any delay pull up your bestloved stations. Blue Display The XR4110 features a brilliant blue four-character display, along with sameness blue button illumination. Preamp Outputs The XR4110 has 60 watts of total power (15 watts x 4 channels), but if you’d like a little more, a pair of 2V preamp outputs is included for system expansion. One-Year Warranty Dual offers a one-year warranty on constituents and labor. What’s in the Box Dual XR4110 receiver, mounting sleeve, wiring harness, antenna, trim ring, and user’s manual.

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40 of 40 persons found the following review helpful.
Economical simple and flexible
By Cycle and Sound Guy
Simple little device that is very flexible. The radio reception AM and FM is good both in the city and on the highway. Music from the SD card is the easiest way to use the “mech less” device. Be conscious that the unit is fixed to 16gb, not a real limitation with the SD card but I have an older generation ipod that is 20gb and it will not play through the USB port. However, I may use the auxiliary port with the ipod just fine. The built-in amplifier is not terribly powerful but does put out galore good sound in my 1988 VW Vanagon which has a huge interior space. I need to turn up the volume control almost all the way if I want it to play loudly. But there are jacks on the unit to connect an external amplifier. Hey, what may you suppose for $40. All in all, I am rather satisfied and think that you get a lot of basic features for a cheap price. We shall see how it’s long term durability is in a few years but I assume since it’s all electronic (hence the term mech less)that there’s not much that may go faulty from a wear standpoint. I would highly commend this unit as a strong value and campaigner to replace/upgrade any stock unit in your car.

44 of 46 humans found the following review helpful.
Full of suprises!
By Twidget
Dual XR4110 Mechless Digital Media Receiver
Wasn’t sure what to suppose after reading the potpourri of impressions in former reviews, but figured it was worth $40 to take a chance.

PROS:
- Better than expected AM/FM tuner with 18 FM and 12 AM presets. Range is better than the premium stereo in our Chrysler Town & County. No memory loss with this unit.
- All 3 digital inputs worked on original try and volume level was even with the radio tuner. That’s good as there is no way to adjust it.
- I input internet radio from my Moto Droid thru the Aux input. It works great! If you are a Pandora user this is the way to go!
- Sound is decent. If you need booming bass, you already have an external amp and sub, right? Hook it up!
- My car has a distinguished clock, so I don’t miss that.

CONS:
- My only real complaint is that the display doesn’t dim with the lights. Anybody got a left-over scrap of light grey window tint?

I’m a retired USN ET & CATV Engineer who started as a teenage hillbilly car stereo installer. A good 8-track in those days put out a whopping 14 watts!
My experience tells me that even a simple unit like this may sound fantastic with good speakers. Maybe replacing old, worn-out speakers with quality new ones of the proper wattage would satisfy those who aren’t impressed with the sound.
If you’re an audiofile who lives in the vehicle, what are you looking at something like this for anyway?

38 of 40 humans found the following review helpful.
Memory loss
By Mitchell Greene
This is the second xr4110 I have tried (after awaiting a three week return/delivery). The unit most times loses the memory for the duration of starting of the vehicle. I have read this is a problem for this unit and wish somebody had cautioned me. It is plainly something Dual wants to sweep under the rug, because they do not act suprised when you call with this complaint. They just say to return it, no questions regarding wiring or anything.

It is a cheap unit, so I guess you get what you pay for.:(

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