Tag : deluxe ipod, dlo homedock

Company : DLO List Price : $149.99 Amazon Price : $123.87 Used Price : $89.00 Average customer review :

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Features

• All-in-one iPod docking station for connecting to a TV and home stereo
• Full-featured, scratch-resistant remote lets you navigate iPod on TV screen
• Onscreen album art syncs with the songs; 12 customizable color themes
• My Jukebox function for creating playlist on the fly; Turbo Scroll function
• Silver and black finish; measures 5.8 x 1 x 3.8 inches (W x H x D); 90-day warranty

Product Description

Connects your iPod to your TV and home stereo for the ultimate iPod experience right in your living room. Navigate your entire iPod library including music and videos from the comfort of your couch. The new Home Dock Deluxe features album art and over a dozen new themes and screensavers to truly customize you home iPod experience. DLO HomeDock Deluxe II- On-TV has video navigation & album art, all-in-one way to connect your iPod to your home TV and stereo, ready to go right out of the box with no wireless or other home computer network required, access & enjoy your entired iPod music & movie library right from your soft, on-screen album art delivers the complete iPod experience, My Jukebox feature lets you build playlists on the fly, ships with S-video cable, full-featured, scratch resistant 18-button remote, 12 color themes and multiple screen savers to personalize your experience.

Customer reviews

Sluggish, but enjoyable
PROS:
- On-screen iPod menu controls (DLO proprietary interface, not a clone of what's on your iPod menus)
- Displays song and album art of what's playing (though not full-screen)
- Plays video and music through your home theater system.
- Continues to charge your iPod when dock is put on Standby.
- Remote control (also simple to find a replacement on DLO's website, if say, someone dropped it onto a hardwood floor and broke it)

CONS:
- Remote control range is somewhat limited.
- The dock's response time is slower than desired. There's noticeable lag between the time you hit a button on the remote and the time it's reflected on screen.

EXTRA TWO CENTS:
I'm not sure why it's so complicated to design a dock such as this one. There has to be a big market for iPod docks that connect to home theater systems and feature onscreen controls and displays.

This dock was one of the few out there that would charge my iPod, display menu navigation onscreen, and play through my home theater system.

Sound is fine but remote and graphic ability are terrible
Well an Ipod is basically about music and this does mate well with my Denon receiver and surround sound system. The sound is excellent once you balance the remote volume with your systems volume. As so many others are saying the problems arise with the remote itself. It is very tempermental and often requires several pushes of the button to change songs or perform other navigations. It also seems like there is a very narrow line-of-sight ability between the remote and the dock. Sitting off center can often render the remote useless (not good). Also, I couldn't find a way to shuffle songs within a playlist. I could either play a playlist in order or shuffle the entire Ipod library . . . but couldn't shuffle within a playlist (not good).

It has the ability to display various screen savers on your television which are mostly pretty cheezy, primitive and silly. I didn't care for a single one personally. Most oddly it will NOT display photos within your Ipod at all! However, it supposedly will display videos stored on your Ipod. This makes zero sense. I'm not into album art and that's good because you aren't going to get any! I'll sum it up by saying it's a great dock for audio but all the other features are either junk in performance or non-existant. DLO (or someone else) can indeed improve this product and when they do "THAT" will be a killer product.

Worthless dock
The homedock deluxe is great if you want to be forced to use a TV to use your ipod. if you want to integrate your ipod to your stereo or your whole house audio system it's worthless unless you enjoy turning on a TV to use your ipod.

Why DLO decided that nobody wants to use the screen on the ipod is anyone guess, but this dock is worthless for most users.

get the Apple dock or the now discontinued DLO home dock standard. it does not hijack the ipod's screen and allows you to use the ipod without a Tv set.

a cosmic dissapointment
the concept for this product was something i was really interested in. but even right out of the box it was having problems. the scrolling is not only primitive but freezes often. the product itself also doesnt do things it is advertised as doing, for instance album art does not show up, only a grey box LAYERED OVER the song title with the dlo logo in it. i checked the website and it said that the company printed the manual before the product was completed so thats supposed to explain the inconsistencies. i returned it promptly, and bought an rca cable with an 1/8 inch end so i could just play it out of my stereo.

Works for me
In reading comments in the iPod forums I have learned that in the latest 5.5g iPods Apple disabled the video output to any docks that don't have a compatible chip. Therefore, it's important to make sure you have the latest model of this HomeDock if you want to use it for video. So that may explain some user issues here. The latest models of HomeDock seem to have that chip while the older ones do not.

As for mine, it works as advertised with a couple bugs. The 70 TV shows and movies I have on my iPod are listed by the order I added them and there is no way to resort them alphabetically.

Occasionally, my iPod doesn't charge on the HomeDock. If I am not paying attention, I have worn my battery down playing videos or music whilst using the HomeDock so when I remove it to take on the road the battery is nearly dead. The workaround it to unplug and plug it back in when I mount the iPod on it.

Otherwise, the picture and sound are good on my 27" standard def TV. The menus are configurable. The remote allows you to navigate your iPod, play music or videos, fast forward or go back, raise or lower the volume and put it on mute and other basic functions.