While it’s definitely an unusual concept, that little visual flourish turned into a really big flex. Seeing dolphins while driving is usually a sign that you’re about to file a very big insurance claim, but Pioneer decided to put a little animation of a person swimming with dolphins into each DEH-P6400 head unit. While Pioneer was still figuring out what to do on early models, the Organic EL display really hit its mainstream stride in head units like the DEH-P6400 head unit of 2002. Windows offered the famous pipes screensaver, WinAmp had more skins than Tywin Lannister, and Pioneer head units with these Organic EL displays had light shows of their own.
See, this was the turn of the millennium and entertainment technology was trying to do a little bit of everything just because it could. The initial marketing materials had some pretty fantastic claims that Pioneer’s new displays were 1,000 times faster than LCD displays, and Pioneer had just the way to show off this new display tech. While brands like Kenwood and Alpine were seeing how much information they could cram onto LCD displays, Pioneer took a different approach by using organic electroluminescence as the basis for its Organic EL displays. It was the new millennium, sleek consumer electronics design was the next big thing, and everyone was looking to cash in on that vibe. With slabs of shiny plastic and more blinking lights than a TikTokker’s bedroom, most aftermarket head units of the early 21 st century took on a somewhat maximalist aesthetic in the name of futurism.
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