2.5 inches in the dash, the LCD won't be useful much. You are spending healthy amount of money there, so I would recommend going in for a good GPS with video playback facility if you are bent on getting a video playback feature.
The car driver should not be distracted from the driving, and all taxis therefore have the video screen mounted on the roof BEHIND the driver. I don't like the in-dash video screen for this reason.
And you are going to put chinki stuff as your pride possession in your swanky new Optra?? Forget it. What if the stuff starts giving trouble 6 months down the line?
Take a good quality mainstream DVD audio or AV player, and add screens (7 inches start from 2k at Lajpat Rai Market) as you need. Go for mainstream brands and not cheap stuff. There IS a quality difference, and auto electronics lifetime is greater than consumer electronics stuff, where the life is assumed to be 18-24 months within which you get the new generation to keep the gravy train rolling. Cars, on the other hand would use an audio system for about 5 years, so it needs to be better engineered. I doubt Dapic would make the grade here.
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