The XAV-AX8500 digital multimedia receiver features a huge 25.7 cm (10.1 inch) capacitive HD touchscreen with an updated display joint featuring a new tilt and swivel mechanism. Together with both wireless and wired connectivity to your smartphone and various devices, and sound customisation, it offers a safe and enjoyable driving experience.
Enjoyable Features:- Oversized, gapless HD display
A large floating 25.7 cm (10.1 inch) capacitive touchscreen with 1280 x 720-pixel high resolution offers crisp detail, higher brightness and contrast for superior in-car experience.
Unlike a conventional display, the LCD is bonded directly to the protective glass touch layer with a transparent adhesive. The result is an extremely precise touch experience along with enhanced contrast and visual performance. The internal anti-glare filter hugely improves touchscreen visibility by reducing sunlight reflections, ensuring easier and safer driving.
Together with the new HD user interface, navigating the menus and controlling the head unit is simple. A row of physical buttons enables you to safely change essential settings - volume, source, and sound settings.
- Tilt and swivel display for the perfect angle
The display joint allows you to manually tilt and swivel the display - both at +/- 15 degrees - to suit your personal preference. This range of movement allows you to not only alter the angle according to your preferred seating position, but also to avoid things like reflection of the direct sunlight, or to share the navigation screen with your passengers.
- LDAC for exceptional sound quality and enhanced Bluetooth streaming
Enjoy the convenience of Bluetooth(R) wireless audio and exceptional sound quality thanks to LDAC. Connect compatible devices to stream audio at 96 kHz/24-bit with bitrates up to 3x higher (990 kbps) than conventional Bluetooth.
- Up to 3 driver assistance cameras can be connected
You can see the images of up to three connected cameras when you shift the vehicle's transmission lever to the reverse position or tap the dedicated icons on the home screen. By utilising the supplied trigger wires, each camera image can be switched on and off, or from one to another automatically by detecting the vehicle's turn signals or sensing compatible signals such as that for a connected front camera. An adjustable parking guide is also available for reverse gear.
- Quick wake up
It is ready to play as soon as you switch on your engine!
- Easily installs into more vehicles
The short chassis casing and single DIN installation format enables installation in more of today's shallow compact dashboards. Despite its huge screen, the main unit is packed in a single-DIN chassis for flexible installation in both single and double-DIN dashboards, while still leaving plenty of room for cables and harnesses when installed in double-DIN vehicles.
- Eco-friendly packaging
Sony's products are not only designed to be stylish but also with the environment in mind. For the individual packaging of the XAV-AX8500, 90% of the cushions are made of paper materials, and compared to the prior model, printed information has been carefully considered for simplicity and length to reduce printer ink usage by approximately 80%, reflecting Sony's commitment to reducing environmental impact.