DIS vs. Touch Screen Navigation

[mpinzur]

I'm strongly considering buying a 2010 Genesis Sedan, but I was surprised to see that the top-line package loses the touch-screen navigation in favor of the Driver Information System with the knob control.

I'd be very eager to hear any thoughts on which of those systems are better and what the major differences are. Most of the items in the Technology Package seem like minor niceties - a cooled seat would be great here in Miami - but a $5,000 increase seems a bit steep. I'd be willing to pay it, though, if folks think that DIS is significantly better than the touch-screen version.

Thanks in advance!

 

[GripperDon]

Knobs get loose and drink glasses get in the way.

Touch screens get full of fingerprints and require constant cleaning

If the top system in 17 speaker over 14, definitely go for it. All IMO.

 

[ctrcbob]

If I was going to do it again, I'd get the Touch Screen, vice the Hard Drive Tech I have in my 2009.

 

[sherrod]

My previous car had a touch screen nav system, so I was very aprehensive about moving to the knob-based system. However, now that I've gotten used to it, I will say that it's not bad at all.

Some navigation commands can be given via voice control including specifying a destination address and selecting an address from your address book.

 

[sarge]

I own an '09 with the DIS, and my car is an absolute lemon (DIS failures). I recomended the Genesis to my boss, and he bought a '10 with touch screen. His was a lemon as well (TPMS light issues). My loaner throughout my 5 month experience with my lemon has been a '10 with touch screen.

My boss' car was bought back by Hyundai - he immediately bought a '10 with the DIS instead of the touch screen. If I had to do it again, I much prefer the DIS, even though mine is a complete failure.

So there you have it - two votes for the DIS from drivers that have experience with both systems.

 

[gator749]

I have the touch screen and it works pretty well. It also does voice nav commands. My choice was that the extra features of tech were not worth the money.

 

[Chopperdude]

I test drove both, premium nav. with touch screen and the techno package, personally since 90% of all commands go through the voice recognition system and I don't have to touch the touch screen I didn't see the advantage of a knob or the techno package. Heh use that extra money saved for a high performance exhaust kit and some nice tires of course that's just my opinion

 

[DavidNJ]

I own an '09 with the DIS, and my car is an absolute lemon (DIS failures). I recomended the Genesis to my boss, and he bought a '10 with touch screen. His was a lemon as well (TPMS light issues). My loaner throughout my 5 month experience with my lemon has been a '10 with touch screen.

My boss' car was bought back by Hyundai - he immediately bought a '10 with the DIS instead of the touch screen. If I had to do it again, I much prefer the DIS, even though mine is a complete failure.

So there you have it - two votes for the DIS from drivers that have experience with both systems.

This sounds more like a dealer problem than a car problem. I have seen difficult to diagnose problems, but they are related to odd electrical leaks or interference. The oddest was on my wife's MB that had all sorts of subsystems with intermittent failures until heating system blower motor failed. Then all the problems went away. My guess is it created noise on the CAN bus that either was not adequately detected by error detection or caused unrecovered communications timeouts.

I've had TPMS problems on the same car, always dealer related (other than ones that occurred in conjunction with the previously mentioned problem.)

 

[JOwest]

I like the DIS much better. Touch screen unit reuqires much more attention and hand movement on the driver.

 

[sarge]

This sounds more like a dealer problem than a car problem.

I have problems with the way my dealer has handled my lemon, but the mechanical issues are definately a problem with the car itself. It's been to different dealers, and the Hyundai "engineer" has now seen the car and is also unable to pinpoint the cause.

I've had TPMS problems on the same car, always dealer related (other than ones that occurred in conjunction with the previously mentioned problem.)

I think the TPMS malfunction is fairly common on his model Genesis - at least the dealership was experienced with it, and Hyundai replaced his car relatively quickly.

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[MattP]

I have the DIS, and I really like the the way you can zoom in and out on the map by just turning the knob. Versus on a touch screen, pulling up a menu and hitting "+" or "-" several times.

 

[danieltoye101@msn.com]

DIS is much better. larger screen, your right hand barely moves when controlling the knob SAFER!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vega]

I'm 6'2" tall, I test drove the touchscreen and was constantly having to lean forward to reach the unit (I like the seat set back). With the joy stick on the DIS its just below the shifter, which is great until the cup holders have a tall drink in them. Overall for me the DIS is preferred.

 

[Rich GV70]

I'm 6'2" tall, I test drove the touchscreen and was constantly having to lean forward to reach the unit. With the joy stick on the DIS its just below the shifter, which is great until the cup holders have a tall drink in them. Overall for me the DIS is preferred.

I have the DIS on the '09 4.6 and use a touch screen on my wife's Prius. I really like the DIS, not just for the knob, but also the quick push button to operate the Ipod, DVD-A, FM, etc. As pointed out before the easy zoom feature is great. I agree that tall bottles can get in the way, but mostly my right hand is on or near the DIS when I'm driving.

 

[jkohn]

I don't think you can just simplify and say touch-screen vs DIS-type. Some touch-screen NAV's are better than others. I don't have experience with the Genesis touch-screen so I can't really comment on it, other than that it has a smaller screen than the DIS.

That said the touch-screen NAV in the Infiniti's is excellent, it has touch-screen but also a wheel. For some things, there's just no substitute for touch-screen - namely inputting names, addresses, etc. The DIS wheel may be better than a 4-way d-pad for this, but it's still slow and clunky compared to using a touch-screen keyboard.

Overall I'm a bit disappointed with the DIS, even setting aside all the glitches and problems people are reporting, I think it's the weakest aspect of the car. It's like they had a list of features to check off (iDrive-style wheel to mimic BMW, etc), but really when you look at the system as a whole it leaves a lot to be desired. For having such a large screen, they make lousy use of the screen real-estate in the menus and status displays. The NAV system can be frustrating when entering an address (hmmm, do I want Main, Main St, N Main, etc?). Navingating MP3's on a USB drive is horrendously slow (the Kia Sportage I rented on our last vacation was 100 times better at this). And I'm sorry, but not supporting bluetooth transfer of contacts from my phone is absolutely inexcusable.