Customer Reviews for Onkyo DS-A2X Remote Interactive iPod Dock

Onkyo DS-A2X Remote Interactive iPod Dock
by Onkyo

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Customer Review: Amazing Item, Exceptional Deal
Summary: 5 Stars

This little dock allowes you to view picturees and videos while listening to music. The best thing is that this amazing little device allowes for one to hear high bit quality sound and high pixel pictures and videos for an unbeatable price!!! Truely a must have for iPods.

Customer Review: Do not buy it!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars

I didn't buy this dock to watch movies on my TV. I bought it just to control remotely the music I listen from my ipod to my Onkyo home cinema system. Even for that, this dock is not capable enough to do so.

I chose Onkyo dock because I have an Onkyo receiver and I thought that with this dock the integration would be perfect and it would look cool. I was wrong. Receiver's remote control through RI connection only has stop, play, pause, forward and backward functions for the ipod. For navigation through lists, albums, songs etc., I still need to use the small dock's remote control. So the fact that the brand was common didn't help much. I could use any other brand docking station if I knew that I would have to have one additional remote control on the table of my living room anyway.

On screen display function is terrible. I had read reviews saying that it is not that good but I didn't imagine that it would be that bad. It really looks like an MS-DOS interface with white characters in a total black screen. So, by this means it doesn't look cool at all. Scrolling is also very slow and not convenient at all on the way you see lists. Characters are huge and very few songs appear on the screen at once. Furthermore it does not appear on the TV screen the Greek characters and I guess any other non Latin character too, like the ipod's screen does. So I cannot navigate my Greek music I have on ipod.

Finally I wish it had an HDMI connection too aside the RCA since I have run out of RCA inputs on my TV screen.

The only positive thing I can say about this dock is its minimal design that matches pretty well with my black ipod.

At the end, I don't see much difference from having my ipod connected via the stereo jack. At least I feel somehow better that I bought it from the US and not from Europe where the price is almost double. If I could return it back, I would do it. I am sure there are much better ipod docks out in the market in similar price range.

Customer Review: Basic interface, but effective!
Summary: 4 Stars

Works wonderfully with my Integra DTR-8.8 receiver. Plus accepts all my universal remotes commands. The on screen graphics are a little on the crude side though. That's the only negative.

Good product for IPOD people. (You know who you are...)

Customer Review: LOVE IT !!!
Summary: 5 Stars

LOVE this little baby, if you're looking for a docking station with remote to pipe your music through your home stereo system get this. If you want it to work with your receiver remote (Onkyo specific) get this ...its a winner. The remote controls just about all ipod functions. I dont use the TV interface, so I cant comment on that aspect of it. Ipod sounds great when hooked up through the a2x ... and it stays charged too