We seem to be at an impasse, in that the list of customer email addresses is
not available from the eStore. I'm not sure if the data even exists (that is,
within SB - the eStore itself is out-sourced). Unfortunately I can't find
anyone who was originally involved with the car player that still works for
the company, so I can't even try to call in favours.

Without the eStore email list we can only contact international customers
plus those that read the BBS. I would guess that to be at most 40% of
owners, going by the polls that were posted here. I don't think the factory
will make fewer than 1000 units and I don't see how anyone would risk the
investment without direct access to customers to pre-guage demand.

We haven't entirely written off the possibility of getting an email list,
but right now it's starting to look likely that the accessible market is for
no more than 200 pieces. It's going to be hard for anyone to justify making
so few pieces using the current (SMT) design. We would be willing to
provide details of the tuner interface to anyone interested in making their
own tuner product, but that would likely involve a great amount of effort
for (possibly) a modest return.

Rob