Kenwood Dnx5120

I do think its a very nice deck..completely happy with it so far. There a a few things I really like about the deck. 1. the ipod interface is nice. The album art is cool...it is set up nice as far as navigating through it...fast....I researched decks and wanted the best ipod friendly deck and I believe this one is the best. 2. The built in garmin navigation works good..I may be biased but I like garmin alot. Street names are shown and also voiced by the system so you can hear it as well as see it. You can also minimize it and see a small version of directions on screen as you view radio or ipod controls. I installed it myself so I grounded the wire that would prevent you from watching videos or changing navigation while driving...very easy to do. Otherwise it would suck having to pull over to change navigation routing or just to watch the dvd(not that I condone watching while driving! ) I havent really tried ipod video. I will look into that for you and reply back when I get a chance. But the dvd player works nice and the quality on the screen is pretty flawless. I would definetly recomned the deck based on the ipod controls and built in navigation alone.

I'm strongly considering buying this unit for my next car. However, I've got a couple questions for anyone who owns it.

1.) Is there any way to control how bright the screen is? It seems that the brightness may get annoying at night.

2.) How does the Shaker 500 / Shaker 1000 sound with this unit installed? Is there a large improvement?

3.) Are there many customization features (such as custom backgrounds / themes)?

4.) Is it possible to play iPod videos while driving?

5.) Are there any shields / covers to put over this while not using it? I'll be parking my car on some questionable streets and I'd like to put some type of cover over it while I'm not in the car. This should hopefully make it look like there isn't a $700 head unit in the car and hopefully deter thieves. I'll also have window tint and I'll be purchasing a Viper Proximity Alarm, but a cover would help I'm sure.

6.) K_cin_az: I noticed that you purchased one from Saletronics. Did everything work out correctly?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Gotadime