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Well, I broke down and got the cartft monitor, and I am very impressed with both the customer service, and the monitor itself.
Ordered it on Monday (keep in mind CarTFT.com is in Germany), it shipped Tuesday, I recieved it Thursday, and installed it Friday morning.
Today was a cloudy day, so I can't tell how it was with sunlight on it, but I shined a flashlight on it and it was still readable. The brightness is much, much better than the Xenarc TSV700 I came from (both the standard 700TSV, and the one I had modified by MotorCity to be transflective).
I didn't have much time to play with it after the instal before I went to work, so I couldn't see if I could get 800x480 (native resolution) out of it, but at 800x600 it was sharp. Those of you who have played with 700TSV's know that 800x600 on a 800x480 monitor know that it looks kind of fuzzy; this wasn't, this was nice and sharp even though the resoultion was 800x600 and the native resolution is 800x480. No black bars or anything like that. If I can get it to display actual 800x480, it might be even better.
As for the screen itself, I was able to get it to fit in my G35 mount that I had earlier bought from mp3car.com. Not taking it apart, but with some widening of the G35 mount I fit the actual case of the cartft screen in it. A little beautification needs to take place, but I'm happy with it.
The only thing that was a PITA (and this wasn't the fault of cartft) was that the all-in-one cord from the screen was a male plug, whereas the previous all in one cable I had run that was with my Xenarc had a male end on the monitor side, so I did have to run new cabling, which added about an hour to my install.
The customer service was good, as I had mentioned, but an email when my order shipped would have been nice, considering the CarTFT website is somewhat non-standard, and difficult to navigate. Oh well.
One final thing to consider is that given the weakness of the US dollar right now, the price was pretty high since you had to convert to Euros, but thats not cartft's fault.
All in all I am very happy with it!
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