Just received the clear faceplate - perfect fit and finish.
Lightly smoke colored but not blurry at all. Display now looks
like most any other piece of home electronics that use this type
of display behind smoke colored plastic. The only thing different
from the empeg faceplate is that there's no bevel (sp?) along the top
edge and the top corner front edges - not a problem in my book.

As to the lack of IR filter; after I clumsily dropped my MkI onto
concrete from about 4" high (in the offical bag - have now upgraded
to a Pelican 1200 case), knocking the top left corner off the
faceplate, Hugo was kind enough to send me one of each color
that they had lying about. The green one which I've been using lately
is missing the filter, but I've only had trouble with the empeg
reading the remote once - holding it closer to the empeg solved it
that time (really low and strong sun from behind hitting straight into
the faceplate) and it hasn't happened again. Will take a stroll
through the local photo shop though...

DarkStorm - thanks!

/Michael