I know there are a few of your out there that have purchased and installed this unit in their G, so i might as well ask. I understand that the unit does not play dvds, but if you purchased it for navigation, doesnt there have to be a dvd playback option without purchasing a dvd changer or other reading device?

 

Just because it reads the Navigation DVD doesn't mean it reads video DVDs. This is the case. I have it. There are two slots. One is a CD slot. One is the Navigation Slot. You can however run an AV input to play DVD that way, just not while driving.

 

Correct, it does not play back DVD movies in the HU. I suspect that either they did not build in the audio decoding chips, or Pioneer has intentionally disabled this feature in the unit. But as noted above, it does have an aux input so you can do movies via an external unit, though not while the car is moving. Evidently the unit's gyro prevents that from happening, and I do not believe there is a work around for that [at least not an easy one].

 

Yeah, a DVD movie contains more or less nothing more than data files. This was disabled or lacks the decoder. Lame!