Rated 
Started Apr 6, 2005
Strengths: Allows controlling of your iPod using your Pioneer head unit, displays song information on your head unit, and charges the iPod
Weaknesses: Unless you have one of the very few head units it was designed most specifically to be used with, it is an absolute pain to use.
I have this hooked up to a DEH-P4700MP head unit. Here is the reason I would never purchase this product again - the interface it provides between the head unit and the iPod is crap. To do something even so basic as pause, which the head unit has a pause button on it, you must go through the function menu (whose entries consist of "FUNC 1", "FUNC 2", "FUNC 3", and "AUTO"/"MANUAL") until you reach the correct entry and press either up or down before the "FUNC #" text goes away. Also, if you use the CD player in your head unit, you know that to skip a song you press and release either the right or left arrow, and to scan through a song (FF/RW) you just press and hold the right or left arrow. However, when controling you iPod using the head unit via the CD-IB100, you have to use the function menu to select which you want the right/left arrows to do - "AUTO" makes them skip songs, "MANUAL" makes them scan.
Oh, and don't think that if you are unsatisfied with the product because of such a horrible interface Pioneer will even care - I called up, got passed off a couple of times to different people, and the last person I spoke with only cared about the text in the warranty, saying that "we can't make a product that satisfies every customer - it's impossible." This problem isn't about satisfying every customer, it's about satisfying the customers that are using head units Pioneer claims the device was intended for, but aren't one of the few touch screen head units they had in mind when they made it.
I'm just going to take it back and get the CD-RB10 and use a remote and car charger - I won't get song text, but I will be able to use it the way I want to, it will still charge, and it will cost less than half the cost of the CD-IB100.
What a dissappointment this was.
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