Clarion Japan announced two car audio products today, the “DXZ955MC” and “DMZ655MP” headunits. One is single-DIN, the other double-DIN; both will be stolen in a matter of minutes in America. More details after the jump.
Here is the “DXZ955MC” from Clarion Japan, a single-DIN car audio unit equipped with 4.2″ touchscreen TFT LCD (that’s why it looks like there aren’t any buttons on it). It of course supports MP3 and all that “modern” stuff, but Clarion also put flash memory inside the unit. They failed to reveal the capacity and format of this memory, but we do know that when recording in “LP” mode, up to 353 minutes of music can be ripped from Audio CDs. It also features an iPod (+mini/photo) connection with an adapter to be released this summer, where you can control some basic playback functions and display ID3 tags through the headunit.
A second product announced by Clarion today is the double-DIN “DMZ655MP,” which at first struck me as something that belongs in an airplane. The 655 has a feature called “variable color” so it can light up to as many as 728 different colors — “to match your car’s coloring,” the company said. Both CD and MD slots are on the unit, where MP3 and WMA files are supported from CD-R/RW discs.
Press Release [Clarion]
