...CCD camera aimed at the empeg's front panel...

When I tried this once (not for trunk->dash, but for room->another room in my house) text wasn't very clear, dimming the display to 30% made text readable. The problem is however that my CCD seems to catch pretty much of the light coming from the cathode filament wires. I guess it would definitely work better with a CCD cam that allows to manually set the brightness (mine autosenses). But why does the CCD cam amplify the light of the cathode filament wires? Hmm, maybe it isn't amplifying it... could it be that the cathode filament wires emit IR? Are there different CCD technologies that would do better?

Pictures were taken at 0%, 30%(best) and 100%.