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10-11-2005, 07:20 PM

RDub99

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I am thinking about getting a DVD Player and am leaning towards Alpine. I'm just wondering what everyone thinks of these two models: DVA-9860 & DVA-5210. Which one would you get and why?

10-11-2005, 07:29 PM

Pioneer Guy

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Two different applications:

The DVA-9860 is a head unit while the DVA-5210 is just a "slave". I would say that the DVA-9860 would offer more system flexibility so it gets my vote as Alpine's web site says they should be the same price.

10-13-2005, 08:28 PM

RDub99

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excuse my ignorance, but what does it mean that its a slave? will I not be able to control the functions (ie. play, ffwd, pause..)? or hook up amps or what?

10-13-2005, 08:42 PM

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A slave is a DVD player that has no radio, amplifiers, etc. It needs to be plugged into a regular head unit. Slave also implies that you can control it from your main HU.

Say you have a HU like mine, with a cd player but no DVD, but it has an input and 5.1. I just need to plug a "slave" DVD into it, a screen, and I'm good to go. I can even plug those portable DVD players into it and get 5.1 out of it [img]smile.gif[/img]