Well its certainly reassuring that you can rely on the public instead of the manufacture who seems to have taken their money and ran. Again I have asked BMW UK as to why the US can buy BMW approved cables for fitting aftermarket DVD players etc.. but unfortunately I've been given a fairly standardised reply how US models differ from the UK? However what they seem to ignore is, if the very same connection for Aux In is used for an IPod, then both UK and US share the same type cable?

I'm also pleased to hear from others that if the AUX In is selected before the TV then this independent audio source can be used in conjunction with the visual feed via AV TV channel. So real stereo sound at last, I have also discovered the following web page which also confirms this: http://www.janixworld.com/x5/AUX_Input/

I trust this is of some help?

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