Kenwood car radio with HD

[philhu]

Hi

I have the DNX-7100 Kenwood car radio with the HD tuner addon.

The unit also does not allow users to set channel names. The built in NON-HD radio tuner does allow this.

The HD seems to work, but it never shows RDS text (The text shown on standard radios) for non-hd stations, and doesnt show much HD Text for the hd channels, it only works on 1 channel in my area. I know 6 or 7 use HD text on their channels.

I had the hd unit connected to a DDX-6019 for a while and the hd text came thru fine.

I emailed Kenwood about these issues, and after 5 weeks they said I wasnt using the radio correctly!!!! I reopenned the ticket in April, and have been completely ignored.

Is Kenwood support really that bad?

This is an obvious dnx-7100/hd tuner interface problem. You would think they would 1) find this bug, and 2) Want the radio to work perfectly

 

[cincyguy2k4]

The reason you are not getting support is because it seems they have discontinued their HD tuner.

You cant find it online near anywhere and a poster over at AVS says the product has been dumped.

I was thinking on getting it for my Kenwood tuner but now HD radio looks to be going the way of the betamax.

 

[dlsnyder]

There is a new tuner module model supposedly coming out in June 2008, the KTC-HR200. It fully supports RDS and is priced considerably less than the KTC-HR100TR. Since the original unit carried a price of $300 I never thought it was worth it, especially since I had Sirius. The new unit, with an MSRP of $129 might make me a believer.

 

[dlsnyder]

Just checked the Crutchfield website. They show an availabilty date of 6/26/08 for the Kenwood KTC-HR200. Now that I am giving up Sirius I may have to check this out.

 

[philhu]

KTC-HR200 is out, for $129

My dealer is doing a free upgrade to it for me since I complained so much about the 100.

Phil

 

[dlsnyder]

Write back when you get it installed. I am very interested in getting one of these.