nope no point in translating. my instrument cluster doesnt supply the information to the screen anymore. not that i used it
anyway, i was wrong. with the stock deck you cant have radio/cd playing on and tv on the screen. i just tested it then, as soon as you hit the TV button, it puts the head unit into the AUX input for the tv sound. if you click anything else on the head unit, it would stop tv showing on the screen. now that i dont have that communication happening, i can have the TV showing on the screen, but whatever i want from the head unit as its an aftermarket one. so this works out perfectly for me!
i have all the cables from jaycar now, so ill be able to run the video to the rear for ipod video to the tuner, and audio from the tuner to the aux input to the tuner
i was gonna do it tonight, but CBF really. got 1 month free foxtel on xbox so ill make the most of it haha