Review on JVC KD-BT1 Stereo by Kim Aguilar

Overall, the KD-BT1 has excellent features. The built in Bluetooth works fantastically well with my Blackberry Pearl and with the addition of the KS-PD100 iPod adapter I can now play music from my phone, iPod or flash drive. is that the radio does not support RDS/PTY decoding. (aka Radio Data System, which displays radio station data such as station ID, track and artist names, etc.). It's such a basic feature that even the stock head unit I replaced in my 2002 car had it. It's not the end of the world as BT1 allows you to name radio stations manually, but it does mean I can't see the live track info and other useful scrolls of text that my local radio stations are broadcasting. Unfortunately, it's a 2007 model from JVC, which means it's not compatible with the KT-HD300 HD Radio Adapter either. Okay so far I've been content with analogue radio and a few mp3's, I think I can survive without HD radio. The only other downside to the BT1 is that I haven't (yet) found a display setting that's easy to see in broad daylight. My car has a permanent tinted glass sunroof without a fully opaque surface, which means there is always LOTS of light in the cabin during the day. There's no brightness adjustment on the display, just color (RGB slider) and contrast. On the plus side, at least the nighttime lighting matches the weird red/amber lighting scheme in my car.