Okay, I thought this unit was going to be pretty cool; I thought highly of the Philips brand and thought this would be a quality product. I was wrong. I docked two Video iPods (30gig and 60gig) and this deck fried out their logic boards. Kaput. They worked fine before being docked, fried afterwards.

What to do?

First, I took the iPods to my local Apple (reseller) and they confirmed that the logic boards were toast. Any further diagnostics/repair would cost me $45 for each unit, but the tech acknowledged that the repair bill would likely be close to the replacement cost. Then I began my journey into Philip's customer service hell. "Nothing we can do." I was told. Finally, after close to an hour, a supervisor's supervisor told me that I should keep the deck and have it and the iPods examined by a technician together. (I was a little ticked that I was told to keep a defective deck, possibly past the time I'm allowed to return it, with no guarantee that it'll be... Read more

I've got a large number of movies that I've converted using the Cucusoft version 2 and 6 software. Naturally, the way the movie is created makes a difference on quality. You will notice something similar when using the AppleTV using the same content.

It's a pain that the Audio and contrast controls are POTS on the side of the player as opposed to having them electronic and available on the remote.

For someone that takes dozens and dozens of movies on travel, and gets tired of watching them on just the video iPod, it's really great! I'm generally happy with this purchase.

I'm a little concerned about the rating where the video iPods boards got fried..... Would like to hear more about that issue when information is available.

I should note that originally, even after following the directions, the video did not transfer to the screen. It took a little playing around but it finally worked and I don't know what was different...didn't really... Read more

This is really Apple's fault, as apparently with the new iPods (Classic, Touch) they require some special apple licensed chip in the video output path to support video output. Apparently this product (and perhaps others) aren't properly licensed or something, so they don't work with the latest iPods. Kind of a problem.