Panasonic in-dash HD nav system & Blu-ray player ready to ship, are you ready for the price?

Don't think you can sell the kids short anymore, keeping the Blu-ray copy at home and taking DVD rips on the road, now that Panasonic is ready to deliver its in-dash Blu-ray player and 7-inch HD screen packing nav unit in September. We got a good peek at these back in April and the specs haven't changed, with the Profile 1.1 Bonus View compatible CY-BB1000D taking care of Blu-ray duties and featuring the same UniPhier guts as the company's line of living room Blu-ray players. The CN-HX3000D is a WXGA 1280x720p 7-inch LED backlit widescreen display ready to play back media via standard HDMI, iPod connector, SD card or its digital TV tuner, powered by Windows Automotive with navigation duties assisted by Google Maps and Yahoo! Japan. The CY-BB1000D is ¥99,750 ($1,057) and the CN-HX3000D is ¥365,400 ($3,872), and both arrive September 10 in Japan. We'll let you decide if around 5 grand is a good price for the in car HD experience (might want to look at custom mounting a DMP-B15, $800 and you can take it with you.)

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[daaper Posted Aug 20th 2009 9:18AM]

Looks cool enough and I bet it's a beautiful screen, but I can't see those selling very well here. From my experience, most of the people wanting to install this type of tech in their car don't usually have that kind of money. Are these Japan only? Or are they planning on sending these over here too?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 10:48AM]

I can see the point of some kind of screen in the front seat head-rests for kids in the back
(but at that sort of 7" screen size HD seems totally pointless).

Do these dash-mounted units have auto disabling for when the car is being driven?

If not then I can't believe anyone would be so irresponsible as to allow your average driver to put a screen in the dash that could distract him or her.
Satnav can be distracting enough (and here in the UK mobile phone use - except with a hands-free kit, which is allowed but heavily frowned upon - is banned whilst driving).

WTF for?

Hopefully the unit carries a permanent running usage log so that any fool driving with this on that has an accident and kills or maims somebody or some child will get capital punishment.

I know a lot of people would claim not to watch or look no and again but driving with one of these on is no different to playing around with a loaded gun.
A ton of carelessly driven car is no different.

[EatingPie Posted Aug 20th 2009 3:33PM]

I don't think more resolution ever becomes "pointless." Similarly more RAM, more HDD space, more CPU speed, etc. Better is better. Whether it's worth the price is another question entirely.

In with that in mind, I think is a huge disappointment in the "too expensive" category.

My XTerra had a $3K DVD option, which I did not go for. With a luxury car, $5K might be more in line, if it includes the whole sound system, but even then an in-dash screen is questionable. For it be useful, there would need to be at least one more screen for the back seat. If that added another $3K, then... what a huge disappointment.

Of course, it took forever for DVD to start hitting cars, so this is pretty early in the game.

-Pie