I suspected those were two different options. Just wasn't clear on that.

There's one problem with the IR thing though. Wouldn't that look pretty ugly having wiring coming out of the steering wheel? There is virtually no information on that web page for their product (it's poorly designed. no real specifications and more importantly, no prices). I assume that you connect the remote wires to this thing. But I have no idea what happens after that. What, do you just have this box sitting somewhere in your car so it can "ses" the IR port, with wires trailing into your dash? That seems kinda strange to me.

Also, could you explain, in simple terms, how I would go about finding/installing software for the empeg to translate these signals?