The project hasn't gone anywhere mainly because of the little amount of information I can get from the serial port. I started an FPGA design that would intercept the VFD signals and change them to a vga output. Got half done when the player EOL was announced. I ditched the project fast for fear that I would destroy the VFD driver circuit and not be able to get replacements parts. As for the output of this design, it is a standard video output. I also use it with my alpine cva-1005. I'll try to post some pictures or even better yet the whole design. This design will not work with version 2.0 player software because you have to remove the "notify=1" option in the config file which supplies the song information.