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I hope you are right. :) I still baby my laptop computers whenever I take them with me on the road. My disk drives don't fair too well in extreme hot and/or cold. I've had no problems at all with my CD/DVD drives in over 10 years. I've had lots of problems with hard disk drives in the past 10 years. While I believe hard drives are not cutting/bleeding edge, they seemed to be inside of cars. Hot, humid, damp, dusty, bumpy vibrations

I hear you man. I'd love to save the big bucks and buy one for like $1,300 from a Internet site, but in the end, with it being an item that is a hard disk drive and probably not that durable in a car environment, I'd suck it up and pay the crazy local brick and mortar store prices to Circuit City or Tweeter, etc, and have the security of them just fixing it. I know most places here in Maryland want $150 to take a head unit out and then put it back in. So, right there, you are out $300 before you even ship the item back to the manufacturer. If you bought it locally, you might find that you can

There is just one left there. I got mine from the Annapolis store on Jennifer Road. Since there is such a shortage, I went back today and got the last one. I'm going to hook my buddy up with it when I head over to his house tonight. Best I can tell there is one left in all of Maryland and that is the Marlow Heights store. :D This is crazy. Reminds me of the XBox 360 fiasco last year.

Glad you got one, or will be getting one on Monday/Tuesday of next week. What state are you in? If you are in Maryland, Virginia or D.C., I was going to look again when I went out to the store later today, to see if they had any in stock. It wasn't the closest Circuit City store to me, I had to drive about 21 miles

What about using a boomerang antenna like one of these: [url=http://qualitymobilevideo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Q&Product_Code=TVABOOM]http://qualitymobilevideo.com/Merchant2 ... de=TVABOOM[/url] [url=http://www.accele.com/accele2/Video_Accessories.htm]http://www.accele.com/accele2/Video_Accessories.htm[/url]

Bongus, Sorry it did not work for you. It worked for me, and now I have a ND-BT1. I showed the manager at the store, a printout sheet from the Pioneer website for the same item at a cost of $120. The manager gave it to me at that price, even though he said he did not have to since it showed out of stock. I then handed him a $15 off of $100 coupon. So, I got it for $110.25 including tax. Keep checking man. They are out there. $110.25 is cheaper than from Pioneer direct, and I didn't have to pay for shipping. It is certainly cheaper than eBay.

Some ND-BT1s are available at Circuit City stores. No shipping but you can order online for in-store pick-up. I got one this way last night. There are three stores in the Maryland/D.C. area that showed stock as of 11:45 last night. Just look for the green add to cart button. If you can add it to your cart, then that store has them in stock. They will hold it for you up to 14 days. So, you don't have to race right over to the store to get it before they close.

Not very comfortable. I pay people to do everything like that. So, I'm willing to pay someone local to do this, but I can't find anyone local that will.

Specifically, Columbia, Maryland or somewhere nearby? I have a 2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara that needs to have this installed in it, and the regular suspects won't do it. Best Buy, Circuity City, Tweeter, etc.

I'm also interested in some way to protect the AVIC-Z1 from prying eyes. In addition to that, it would be nice to be able to lock the unit out. Since you can have a lot of personal information stored on the AVIC-Z1, it would suck to have your home address and lots of phone numbers on the unit. For now, the best we can do seems to be to NOT put personal information on the head unit, to have an alarm installed on your automobile, and to maybe consider using the following: [url=http://www.usace.com/products.htm]http://www.usace.com/products.htm[/url] The combination of a car alarm and g

Motorola V551 Cingular Wireless Don't really have contacts to upload. I know everyone's number (they are my family and friends ... it's not a business phone), but calling and receiving worked fine.

How is the TV quality? How easily did the GEX-P5700TV interface with your AVIC-Z1 head unit? Where did you mount your antennas? Were the antennas that come with the TV tuner good enough, or did you have to go and purchase something like the boomerang antennas?

If the answer is yes, where did you get the radio kit?