I'll post a pic of the D1 tonight (assuming I can figure out how to attach a picture).

Re the Pioneer iPod integration, in the D1 and N2, the interface is the same as that for a 6 disc changer. It would take much time to list all the problems but for a start:

1. I could not figure out any way to shuffle - maybe I am missing something but considering my level consumer electronics experience if I can't figure it out then it is way too difficult. This is a huge problem because everytime you choose a category to play (see #3 below) it starts with the same song and continues through the same song order - this makes it highly unlikely that you ever get to hear song 200 in a playlist.

2. You can only choose to see the text for either the playlist, song title, artist, album or genre AND THIS IS LIMITED TO 8 CHARACTERS! And changing what is displayed from title to say artist is an incredible task and quite difficult to figure out.

3. There is no way to play all songs on the iPod - you can only play within a playlist, artist, genre, or album - so now way to just play randomly through your collection unless you have a playlist that has all songs in it

4. There is no equivalent to the scroll wheel on the ipod, once you choose a category to play in (see #3 above) then you can scroll within that category using the up/down buttons but it takes quite some time to get through even a small number of items.

5. The screen view is completely ho-hum (at least on the N2 you can import your own backgrounds to spice things up!)

6. The instructions are a joke - not sure why they waster their time printing them.

I think they rushed something to market as quickly as they were able to do so. Unfortunately there does not appear to have been any user testing involved.

Pioneer does have what looks to be a better interface on the 5700 but that is a flip up screen which I just don't care for.

I heard the Clarion (also flip up screen) has the best ipod interface.

I am planning to install the Alpine tonight - I am hoping the ipod interface is better but am not expecting much. If it stinks then I am going to go back to running the ipod through the Aux input and controlling through the ipod touch pad ( the on great benefit to this is that you can rate songs - which I have not seen on any OEM interface).

I suspect in the next 12 months things will change dramatically - looks like to new Kenwood discussed above has already taken the doubdle-din to a higher level. I can't wait to see it in action (and may end up replacing the apline with it if it comes out before my 30 day return period expires!)