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Ipod Dock for "ipod Ready" Pioneer Elite Receivers | 
| Brand: Pioneer Category: CE
List Price: $99.95 Buy New: $76.85 You Save: $23.10 (23%)
New (4) from $76.85
Avg. Customer Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 7077
Media: Electronics Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8 x 10 x 6
MPN: IDK-80 Model: IDK-80 UPC: 012562832951 EAN: 0012562832951 ASIN: B000IWL77U
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| Features:
| • | On-screen menu display | | • | Dock Adapters - For use with iPod mini | | • | Watch Videos & Photos on your TV | | • | Charges your iPod at all times | | • | Complete access to your iPod from your Elite receiver?s remote control |
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Product Description The Pioneer IDK-80 serves as a convenient and elegant home base for your iPod player. Works with all iPod models that have a dock connector through the use of interchangeable inserts called Dock Adapters.Listen to your iPod music library through your Pioneer Elite receiver and home theater speakers. On-screen menu display of your music, photo, and video libraries. Watch video and view photo albums on your television. Complete access to your iPod from your Elite receiver's remote control. Charges your iPod at all times.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
color video please May 14, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product does what it says, you can play your Ipod thru the receiver, and control the Ipod too. The people who made this, no doubt, "es gente muy inventosa." But, the first thing that shocks the user, is the black and white display. Here I am with a high definition LCD TV, and a $500 receiver, and I'm looking at what for all the world appears to be MS DOS commands with very low resolution. Shocking! After a minute or so, on your screen appears the primitive black and white notification: "Press any button to cancel the screensaver." This notice moves around my tv screen like it's been plucked from the video game "Pong". There's no one in the world that wouldn't like to see some beautiful, color imagery while listening to their favorite music. Why did this not occur to Pioneer?
Great Dock for Elite Pioneer Receivers... November 22, 2007 Great doc for the Elite Receiver, I received the cable with my receiver and it worked instantly. I do agree with the other comment on having to use the TV to view what is on the iPod. I wish the workings were a little different but it is still great to hear the iPod on the receiver.
Works as advertized But... October 20, 2007 This product does exactly what it says it does. However I wish it worked differently than designed.
Having set up the iPod doc with the Pioneer AV receiver, and my Logitec Harmony 890 remote the iPod adapter is very easy to use. Plug the iPod into the doc, push the "listen to iPod" button on the Harmony, and you're off and running. The contents of the iPod display on the TV screen where you can select album, artist, genre, etc as you can on the iPod. Well almost.
On the iPod (when it is out of the dock) you can use the click wheel to rapidly scan through songs or albums. When using the adapter the click wheel is disabled and you must use the TV. The interface lacks that rapid search capability and you must slow scroll through genre or album until you finally get to what you want to play. I wish the design allowed the click wheel to operate while in the dock. That way you could plug the iPod in, rapidly select what you want to listen to, and walk away.
The other problem is the TV has to be turned on to select music. If you want to save energy and money you must turn off the TV after you make your selection, then turn it back on to switch albums later. My TV draws about 250 watts so it isn't wise to leave it on for hours while listening to music. This just isn't the best setup.
So my advice to the designers of either this dock or the Pioneer is don't disable the iPod click wheel on your next design. I have a second iPod dock which isn't so well integrated into the Pioneer but I'm thinking that is a good thing. The other iPod doc simply would output audio to the amplifier and all other controls would be on the iPod itself. I may end up using the other doc which has it's own Apple remote, perhaps less convenient in some ways but more convenient in other ways.
Great dock. Pioneer will send you missing cable. August 3, 2007 I just bought the brand new Pioneer Elite receiver VSX91TXH and this dock. There was a notice in the receiver box that the iPod cable was missing and that you should call with your model and serial number and they would ship you one in mid September.
A must for Home Theatre and Music Lovers July 28, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product is a must for any Home Theatre user who also uses a Ipod. My Pioneer Elite Receiver came with the cable to connect it directly into the receiver. If your receiver does not include the cable you must purchase it separately. I plugged in the device, spent about 5 minutes with the Receiver manual and had the Ipod playing music and pictures on my Plasma display. Your Ipod menu is displayed directly on the TV when selecting music. Pictures require you to select play directly on the Ipod sitting in the Dock. If you have problems getting the menu to display on your TV just unplug the Ipod or Dock from the cable and reset.
This thing is great since you can use or create playlist to run while entertaining.
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