Furrion? ... Sony?

schrederman · 11-13-2016, 04:38 PM

I just got back from our 4th trip and last night... our DVD player just quit right in the middle of a movie. The little remote works once in a while. I'm very disappointed in the overall quality of the entertainment system... and I thought the other brand is junk. It's head and shoulders above this... Does Sony make entertainment systems for RV?

Gman1372 · 11-13-2016, 04:48 PM

Furrion is junk. My stereo lasted three weeks. For $750 the tv should have been "smart" er.

goducks · 11-14-2016, 12:48 AM

Only reason most MFG's put Furrion, Jensen or IRV units in RV's is because they're the only MFG's for the most part that offer 3 speaker zones. People just get all giddy about that stuff. Even though 99% of the time the outside speakers are trash.
I've never seen a Sony DVD player for an RV with 3 zone capability. It's not easy or cheap to revamp your whole setup. JMO but if my current Jensen takes a dump then since I already have a 1000W inverter I'm going with a BluRay player, sound bar with remote sub woofer and install a car deck for the rest of the music. If needed I'd install a speaker selector to be able to play out side. We never do that hardly so it not really an issue.

Loosenuts · 11-14-2016, 11:32 AM

Yeah those things are junk all the way around. I have most of my movies in digital format now so I installed a Sony Media Player behind the TV to play movies from a portable hard disk or thumb drive. For music I installed a XM receiver so the only thing the Furrion stereo does is output the sound to the speakers.

goducks · 11-14-2016, 01:06 PM

We tend to only watch new movies. Sometimes we may watch one a few times. So having them stored on a hard drive won't work for us. We too have an XM docking station that we use for an XM radio that we use around the house as well. I also have a JBL Flip that we use outside when we want some music. If we have Pandora we just listen to that. We have a small boom box that's for the XM as well. My Jensen isn't Bluetooth enabled so I bought a Belkin BT device that I use to listen to Pandora in the 5th wheel. Pretty much have everything covered as long as the Jensen DVD feature keeps working. Hopefully it will make it a couple more years as that's when we're thinking about getting a different trailer to travel for 2-4 months at a time. Fingers crossed.
Really sad that you can by a car and more than likely only have a small glitch with the stereo. Our last two long term vehicles, (9yrs, and 12yrs) had stereos that worked fine till we sold them. Why can't RV's be the same?

richie t · 11-14-2016, 01:22 PM

When I tried to play a dvd nothing happened. After researching I had to take the face plate off the dvd player, and lo and behold no yellow was connected for the sound. I had a picture but no sound. Think they should have done that at the factory.

goducks · 11-14-2016, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by richie t

When I tried to play a dvd nothing happened. After researching I had to take the face plate off the dvd player, and lo and behold no yellow was connected for the sound. I had a picture but no sound. Think they should have done that at the factory.

Why not swap out the RCA cables for an HDMI cable?

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