Well, I was able to get a bit of info from Meridian. According to them, the US F80 will not support HD Radio but that support for it may come with a future product (no elaboration on what kind of product and when). As for the IRIS dock, it will indeed transmit metadata to the F80's display. You will also be able to navigate the iPod's menu from the F80 display and control playback using the F80's buttons.

While still not an ideal one piece solution, at least the implementation with IRIS sounds good. Now we'll just have to see how well it works in practice when it launches in November.

Jeff

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