7″ TFT LCD Color 2 Video Input Car RearView Headrest Monitor DVD VCR Monitor With Remote and Stand & Support Rotating The Screen

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1. 93 of 103 people found the following review helpful

   
   Good 7″ monitor for the money!, July 7, 2012

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   R. Boccio (Georgia, USA) –
   
     

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   I ordered this monitor to hook up to my BOSS DVD Player in my van so that kids had a screen to see a movie or to see what music track was playing. Hookup is very easy, even though the instructions are basic to say the least. Red wire to +12v, Black wire to -12v, Blue Wire is hooked up to a backup camera sense signal so that when the camera comes on, the monitor will automatically switch to the camera input. I did not use this cable as I do not have a backup camera, I just left it as is. There is no power on this cable so you do not have to worry about it shorting out to anything. The composite video cable gets plugged in from the source. I wired my monitor right to the power harness for the radio so that it turns on and off with the van and ran the cable under the dash out of the back of the radio area, looks clean and allows the monitor to be moved if needed.

   The monitor is by no means a high resolution monitor, but it gets the job done and kids really do not care about the resolution so long as they can see the movie and subtitles if enabled, both of which are very usable on this monitor. If you need a cheap monitor for the kids, this will do just fine and it is cheap enough to replace should something happen to it.

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2. 81 of 91 people found the following review helpful

   
   Wiring is self evident, July 18, 2012

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   RosieAndMe –

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   First I should state that this unit is very easy for anyone with basic automotive wiring knowledge to install. What that means is, you should need no instructions, the wiring is self evident. Because of that the instructions that come with the unit are very brief.

   I purchased the package consisting of the monitor, the E363 camera and the Koolertron license plate camera. There is no comparison between the cameras, the E363 with 170 degree viewing angle wins. I have a 2007 Honda CRV and I mounted the camera low under the rear bumper and the view from the camera is just amazing. I then ran the wiring into the spare tire well and made my connections in that area. There is an ignition activated power outlet on the left rear wall that I used for the power source running everything all the time while driving. Snaking the single cable which contains the video signal and power wire up to the front was relatively easy, tucking the cable under the trim.

   The monitor is very nice, I found the picture quite pleasing. I mounted it with nylon straps via the AC vent over my radio, which I never use. The single cable from the monitor is all that is required, it contains the wiring for the two video inputs and power, snaking it around was quite easy. It plugs into a longer harness that connects to the cable coming from the camera. The monitor has brightness and contrast controls along with the ability to flip the picture left or right, up or down so it accommodates the camera no matter what. As one might expect the monitor is always on, that is, anytime you turn the key it automatically comes on. You do not have to punch the on-off button every time.

   Backing up at night is adequate because of the built in vehicle back up lights. The E363 camera has no infrared LED’s.

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3. 90 of 102 people found the following review helpful

   
   Can’t beat it for the price but needs more info added to the included instructions about using with a backup camera, July 12, 2013

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   T and L «T» (North America) –

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   The monitor is a steal for the price and has a clear picture for use as a backup camera monitor 🙂 My gripe….the instructions 🙁

   Even after everyone else’s warnings about the inadequate instructions I wasn’t too concerned because it only has three wires to hook up (red, black and blue) besides plugging in your video source(s). What the included instructions do not tell you is that if you are connecting a backup camera it MUST be connected to the Video 2 plug in order to work with the blue wire to sense when you’ve shifted into reverse. It would have been so much easier if in the included instructions in the box they would have noted that «Video 2 input is for connecting a backup camera.» My backup camera had a female end so I could only plug it into Video 1 of the monitor and it would not work that way with the blue reverse trigger wire. After searching around I found the needed info back in the product’s description on Amazon. Why didn’t they include that info in the wiring instructions?

   So, in short, to take advantage of the blue reverse sensing wiring the backup camera must be plugged into the monitor’s Video 2 input (the yellow female RCA plug). Red = Positive, Black = ground, Blue = Reverse trigger wire, Video 2 input = Camera…Wired like this it will turn on the monitor when you shift into reverse and off when you take it out of reverse.

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