Fitted mine from eBay last night and seems I may have gotten lucky (hope these aren't final last words!!)
The unit seems built very well, does not feel cheap at all - very heavy and looks very pleasing to the eye with the brushed Gunmetal front to it and all buttons have blue backlight. Looks as good as a pioneer or alpine on the outside.
Installation easy enough if you have some electrical knowledge and unit has sooo many inputs and ouptputs - like the way it has separate remote outputs for subwoofer amplifiers and electric aerials. (i.e when you turn the unit on it turns your amps on but only extends your aerial if you are using the radio! clever)
Using the unit:
Push the source button as any other Headunit and unit springs to life very quickly. Push the open button and screen slides out smoothley and quietly.
The screen quality is suprisingly good for a unit of this price - contrast is great and colours natural (all adjustable too), resolution looks almost indistinguishable from my PC monitor.
Next is the interface. The interface is quite intuitive. If you touch the bottom or top of the screen, the display will tilt further in that direction. The left and right side of the screen adjust volume and touching the corner will bring up the touchscreen menu. Button lighting illuminates only when needed so glare doesn't get in the way of the screen.
When closed the outside screen shows the current track, time etc and allows you to use all basic controls and adjust bass, fader and source etc, but fast forwarding is only accessible via touchscreen which can be a pain.
Now the best bit - the unit will play just about EVERYTHING from ANYTHING! lol
It plays DVDs, CDs, MP3s, DIVX, XVID, VCD, JPG, MPG, VOB... list goes on.
It will read these files from DVD (any format bar DVD-RAM) CD and it also has a USB port on the back which interfaces with both my USB stick and my USB hard drive!! 160GB of music and video on the move!
Put in a DVD with the complete Bottom serires In DVD quality DivX and played the lot.
Verdict: If you want the absolute best I'd still say you get what you pay for - this will not beat an equivalent Alpine or Pioneer system obviously but for £300 its a bargain. Even so, the range of formats this device reads from and the range of codecs it supports such as both DivX and Xvid, MP3's at all bitrates puts it ahead of those brands anyway.
Bored at work By The Way!!