Oh man, I thought a gun was gonna slide out on the tray with the open/close

*geek

Adding video to channels (Geek) - requested by ant.

all that with, what, like.. 5 bits of memory? crazy.

*engineering

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by dingens.

A completely motorized piece of marvel

had CD in the car in 1986 with a cool Hafler MA-1 amp

Dude, it's 2013. I think it's ok to take the protective plastic film off now. You got it through a quarter-century without a scratch. Time to let go.

I was fully expecting this to be a bait-and-switch with it just being a cassette faceplate with an intricate touchscreen solid-state memory all-in-one system underneath.

The features he shows off were not 'standard', but hardly uncommon.

what's a "cassette tape?"

Kenwood always had nice technologies, good UIs, were very quick to adapt new standards, but they were always a horrible sounds quality.

Had a 64 Dodge Dart with a simple old-tech Kenwood cassette-only player, no vol controls, etc., via external amp, came with the car. It began to drag and stall in cold weather but I could spray butane into it and ignite it and that was enough to free-up the capstan and cause it to play until it dragged again in about an hour.

....carried butane in the car to refill the Colibri-

I had a 17 dollar portable boombox in the back of my 1989 mercury sable, which belted out horrible sound all the time. Luckily my tastes ranged from Tool and Metallica and Sevendust and not much else.

The Different decks my 98 honda civic hx has had.
Side note. I have never removed or have had someone else remove the stereos.

1. stock Stereo
2. Alpine
3. Clarion
4. Kenwood
5. Sony
6. Pioneer
7. Kenwood
8. JVC
9. Stock after police found it returned it and the car had no stereo in it. None of the others have ever returned from the place where missing socks go.