Alex,
I'm in exactly the same boat. Well, I don't have an Alpine - mine is a Kenwood LCD monitor (which gives me the additional fun of having
two devices reacting to the same remote
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), but that's the only difference. So, yes, I'd like to join you building something to make some empeg output appear on the LCD through the video in. The BOB-II you mentioned seems like a very good starting point. I'm an electronics engineer, but I really only worked on the software side of projects (but very close to hardware there), so as you said: your hardware know-how, my software know-how!
While I have your attention, and as you seem to know about hardware products, let me ask you about another idea I had. The empeg's StrongARM integrates a standard LCD interface, IIRC, and it's used in the empeg. So, if we could somehow get access to this interface, then all we'd need is some sort-of-standard LCD-to-Video-converter. Does such a thing exist? If so, and if we could find a way to connect it internlly, then it'd be really easy to get the empeg output (including visuals!) on our LCDs...
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. So again, does such an LCD-to-Video converter exist?
Daniel