Man ... they are chicken :-)

I understand your frustrations with these limitations. But remember, it's easy to call another company "Chicken" when it's not your company.

Try to see it from their point of view. Empeg is a small company running on a small budget. Legal wrangling with the RIAA (in the case of the file copying) or with punitive damages suits (in the case of the vis screen) would quite literally put them out of business. All it would take is one suit, and bam, they'd have to close their doors. So Empeg has to be very careful. Obviously, there are certain risky things they're doing, but they have to draw lines somewhere.

Personally, I am very happy with the Empeg, even with those restrictions in its software. Nowhere else can you get an in-dash car stereo that plays your entire CD collection. And all the features that have been piled onto it (above and beyond just playing MP3s) make it more than just cool.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144