It was and still is an excellent device but unfortunatley it died for a few reasons (IMO)...

1. The price was set too high. Those who knew what it could do could see past that but it was way too much for the average user to gamble on.

2. Rio killed it by simply never bothering to market it. I found it by total accident. Again, your average user would never have seen it.

3. It aimed for a niche market before the market was ready. 6/7 years ago there wasn't the huge talk of mp3s the way their is now. Their was geeky me and Napster! Like you say, it would do well now.

I'd love to see an alternative but really all I've seen was the Dension unit that is now dsicontinued. Sony and Pioneer did make a HDD player but they were woeful. Alpine's looked ok but again too pricey.

A headunit that I could flip the face down and insert a Nano though... that'd be sweet.

Oh and keep checking the for sale section and eBay. $1000 is about 4-5 times the norm.