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Display selection woes...
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so, I am pretty much all set for my setup. Just the display is giving me worries and I can't decide on anything really.
I have a Double-DIN slot available, yet the opening in the console is slightly larger (193x115mm or 7.5"x4.5"). I want to use the console real estate es efficiently as possible. So, a 8" would be feasible. However, I would have to build my own mount and bezel to integrate with the car and mod the hell out of that thing to make it work.and look decently, and I think that is beyond my scope of skills (yet, might be a later project, maybe if I can score a defective 8" widescreen for testing and training)
So it looks like I might just have to settle for a 7" that is premodded and mounted to a DDIN-Frame already for easy of installation. I was pretty much settled for one of those pre-fabbed Lilliputs until I read about the failure rate of those displays... Now I am bugeying a Xenarc, but that sorta throws me back to the "heavy modding" path to make my own frame mount for the display. Why is no one selling the seemingly superior Xenarc in pre-fabbed DDIN? Or has the quality of the Lilliputs picked up decently in the past years? They still have a ****ty contrast/brigtness compared to Xenarcs, no?
Also, is the pre-fabbed Lilliput DDIN product EXACTLY DDIN dimension on the front plate? So that I could just put on a facia plate suitable for my car from any other manufacturer (like Pioneer) and it would look decent? Or are there deviations from the DDIN size?
So, before I start to ramble off I'll hit the submit button and hope to receive some answers to the bolded questions....
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