Pyle 15.6-Inch Overhead Flip-Down Car Monitor - Hi-Res 1680x800p Widescreen Car Roof Mount Monitor, Vehicle Flip Down Overhead Screen w/IR, FM Transmitter, USB/SD, HDMI, AV, Stereo Speaker -PLRV1525

Junk components. Purchased end of 2024 and used it daily for 3 weeks and although picture was not great it worked fine. The next time I used it was about 8 months later and the entire picture while playing dvd was completely white washed. Either the component cable has failed or the hardware within the screen itself has failed. I will be contacting the company if I can locate their number but I do not expect much as I’m sure to be outside of a warranty window. It works great as a disposable tv if your ok with that.

The screen is big so I don't get complaints from my kids that it is too small. It has about 4 ways to connect thins, 1 HDMI port, 1 USB prt, 1 Micro memory card port, and 2 VGA port. Those are a great number of options that could be taken full advantage of. I currently have a coverter box, a micro memory card, and a HDMI cable to my phone to give my kids opons to watch tv the go. The coverter box isn't the best since sicgnal isn't that great when driving but if your parked and waiting for a bit then having a tv is great option to have. The picture of the diplay is good fo what it is althuogh I wish it was better.

well shipped easy install great size good picture

Installed this in our 2019 Toyota Sequoia and wasn't too difficult. The hardest part was trying to get the screws lined up with the metal bracket when screwing to the roof. I attached the bracket by cutting back the headliner and mounting to the roof supports with some self tapping screws. Currently feeding video to the screen via composite out on from a Pioneer headunit w/ videos on a flash drive, makes it easier to control the screen with young children. Only downside is can't use carplay will videos are playing but thats a headunit problem. Audio also plays through car spears whether feeding the screen from the headunit or audio out from the screen to the headunit on aux mode. Also the device has 2x HDMI ports, one is hidden inside on the control board and it does work BUT to get to it you have to switch to HDMI then go into settings, scroll over to source, and select HDMI 2. Odd that HDMI 2 doesn't show up in the regular source list. Kind of a pain but nice its there. Also dome light works correctly, comes on when the doors are opened / closed, and can manually be turned on or off with the button on the screen. Viewing angles are pretty bad but fine for the passengers sitting to left or right of the screen. Software itself is pretty buggy but I don't plan on changing the input very often. Overall I am pretty happy with this screen and my kids love it for longer car rides. Hopefully it lasts the test of time. Update: 1 year later and still going strong. Thinking of installing another in my Tundra!

I share this review to help others that are struggling with the IR capability of the overhead monitor. I ran a few tests and found out there are 4 IR LEDs transmitting the audio data (1st picture). As others have mentioned, the third row is not able to hear anything when the monitor is mounted to the ceiling. From what I can tell, the 4 IR LEDs point straight down and there is nothing to refract the signal at an angle. I set the overhead monitor as shown picture 2 so the monitor was at 90 degrees from the typical installation so the IR LEDs were pointing towards the trunk of the van. I was able to be outside of the van with my head positioned in the trunk and hear the audio from movie. This leads me to believe that is not a signal strength issue but just a signal direction issue. I'm not an engineer but it seems strange that it was designed to have a signal sent straight down. I was hoping to bend the LEDs towards the 3rd row but there is no space between the IR LEDs and the board to allow them to bend. I have the monitor set up to my Pioneer headunit but there is limitation of being able to use Android Auto when playing videos from the SD card in the headunit. Due to this limitation, I was trying to have my kids use IR headphones with the SD card in the overhead monitor to allow it to be quieter for the adults.