Jensen DVD/Radio combo

If you wanted to put in a house 120V unit you could run an inverter, 12V DC to 120V AC to power it. It probably would not take much more power than the Jensen. I'll take a look at mine.

If you can find where the DVD player gets it power from you could try unplugging it for a few minutes and see if that gets rid of the Error message.

There are lots of ways to "fix" the DVD player.

Most 5ers and MH use home type surround systems these days that run off AC.

I had thought about replacing my Touch Audio POS with something like this Pioneer. But last year I used and extra home DVD player because we only watch movies when we have AC anyway as the TV is AC. The aux input works fine for music from smartphones or DVD player. $20 vs. $250. A $50 portable DVD player with 7" screen would work fine too as they have audio/video outputs and you take take it on excursions from the campground.

I hate to spend $250 on a new receiver for the same crappy sound through the stock speakers though. $250 buys a far better sounding 5.1 channel HTIB, again running off AC only. Many of the portable Bluetooth speakers will sound better and I could take it to the beach.

Highway 4x4 wrote:
What do they put in 5th's and MH's ? Would have to be something that could take a shake. Does Lippert own Jensen?

Couldn't answer for what's installed in all MH's and 5th's (probably something functional but cheap like the Jensen). No. Lippert doesn't own Jensen.

I don't think it's about the shaking. My truck has endured a lot of bumps and shakes and the Pioneer in there is still good. I think this is thread #three or #four in the last couple weeks about Jensen failures. The units are just that bad. Maybe it has a fragile laser assembly or maybe it's not durable at low voltages.

Jensen, which used to make the finest cone speakers now has a reputation as having the least quality for electronics.

What do they put in 5th's and MH's ? Would have to be something that could take a shake. Does Lippert own Jensen?

Any name brand mobile electronics player will be an improvement over the Jensen unit (Pioneer, JVC, SONY, Alpine, etc,). The Jensen unit is usually a 1.5 DIN space so, if installing a 1.0 DIN replacement, an accessory faceplate part can be used to take up the difference.

limbery wrote:
Those Jensens are the cheapest junk I've ever seen....now, what can I put in that spot in the cabinet that is wasted with that Jensen????

Couldn't agree more. We load from a portable HD or the laptop. Anything HDMI friendly.

I'm surprised that these days anyone is still playing Cds and DVDs...I just load tv shows and movies onto my iPad and have an HDMI cable that I hook up to play on my TV....I also have a portable stereo that I play all my music library from the iPad on too....Those Jensens are the cheapest junk I've ever seen....now, what can I put in that spot in the cabinet that is wasted with that Jensen????

we've had the same trouble...watched a movie one day...the next, nothing! Tried to clean it with air and dvd cleaning kits...MANY times and no use...We hook up a home dvd player now. Kind of a pain, but what do you do?

I suppose you could buy an inexpensive home theater system and plug it in. I priced those Jensens and they are stupidly expensive!!

oweninthekeys wrote:
Still trying to figure out how to get my TV to play through teh surround sound on my player. Instructions taalk about a setup menu but I can never get it to appear.

Make sure the red and white rca cables are plugged into the tv. Next go into the tv menu and select audio. Then go down the list to variable. I can't remember exactly which way it is but you want the audio to be controlled by both the tv and Jensen. So I just turn the Jensen to max and use the tv controller for volume control. You can't get HD sound through the tv while watching cable or air shows. The HDMI is only good for movies played thru the Jensen. IIRC

I agree with most that Jensens are really crappy. I had a Touch Audio the never worked form the get go in our last TT. I replaced it with a car stereo and bought a cheap bluray player at wallmart for movies. I then added a small PC 3 piece speaker set. 2 speakers and a sub. Worked pretty good. The speakers in most RV's are******anyway as far as speakers go in the speaker world.
Our new 5'er actually has a nice sound system. Although it's all Jensen it came with a subwoofer and 8 speakers. Two in the bedroom, two outside and four in the living area. It's fairly well balanced and while watching movies it sounds pretty decent.
When I does******out on me I will go the home theater route and just run everything thru an inverter. A small amp and a nice bluray player would be all that's needed. Only issue is I would need a speaker splitter to run all the speakers. Most amps don't have provisions for 3 sets of speakers. We generally just listen to our XM Roady radio that's moved around from the house to the 5'er.