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  1. Hi, first you need to buy the Apple (only Apple's will work with the iTouch, I installed the TOL Monster and it does not work with iTouch only iPod) iTouch/iPod Composit video output cable. Also if you want to for longer than the battery lasts, get a car power adapter (sorry don't remember who's but Best Buy has it. This will alow you to plug the USB end of the Apple cable into it and then the Lighter or aux 12v socket. Then plug the composit video and audio into the input video / audio connectors on your Z. Then you set the Z to video in and run the iTouch normally, the Z does not contro
  2. what is this about,,, the Z1, Z2's are on the comptable list http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0054710260 Not acording to Crutchfield, here is their compatibility chart: Compatible Units: The Pioneer CD-BTB200 Bluetooth Adapter is compatible with the following Pioneer head units: http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/ ... ailed_info At the bottom of the page
  3. [michaelgates"] You guys are obviously not computer guys Sorry to name drop but I worked on the first 8080 through Intel® Core™2 Quad PC and Servers. You can't just add a blue ray drive in a laptop or Head unit and expect it to play Blue ray movies. Try lookup video decoding processors, HDCP, or even DRM. I memtioned that in one of my posts. But to use your statment, you can't add a DVD drive to a PC or Laptop and just play movies. That takes the same type hardware, firmware, and software. So stop beating up on Microsoft. Kinda taking it personal. In or out of the i
  4. I'd say HD-DVD was more like Betamax... and blu-ray is like VHS... if we're going with that analogy. I was going more for the Sony Betamax which was the better format loosing to VHS which was a lesser format. The trick then was Sony came out at 1.5Hrs a tape and VHS being a smaller media could fit 2Hrs in a cassette. One VHS, one movie. Then upped the vewing time by slowing the tape speed, loosing more quality. This time Sony used better format and lots of content and money.
  5. Your correct, my miss type. Too many years of binary.
  6. Regarding BR, what is the screen size and viewing distance? I seriously doubt the extra resolution, assuming the in-car display could even display 1080p content, would be visible. Seems like a waste of money and effort. Can we all get one thing nailed down. Blu-ray is not a resolution, it is a media format. The format is caused by the type laser used and the disk layers. A DVD laser system is not compatible with Blu-ray media, but the Blu-ray laser system is compatible with DVD media. Blu-ray format simply will store enough data for a 1024p movie. You could put 1024p onto a DVD but yo
  7. its not so much a matter of what it would come with, but more of having an all-in-one multimedia navigation unit...and having it all work properly with no long boot-up times. and ive never heard of blue-ray compatible head units. last i heard blu ray players were about a grand. so that in a unit, PLUS the required hd screen for the blu-ray to work, plus all the other featres mentioned would make it quite expensive. but well worth it if thats the thing your into. Fast example:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118013 - PC Blu-Ray drive 159.99, didn't take the time to
  8. I wouldn't have a problem paying 3 grand for something like that. Throw in everything but the kitchen sink, and make it all just WORK together. Oh yeah, I would pay for that. oh trust me i would too, i was just simply saying that while it is a dream unit, itd cost an arm and a leg. It would cost more just because there would be a niche that would pay, myself included, but why? Nothing listed is bleeding edge. Even the “conversational†type speech recognition is not new, just perfected. Though I remember a now retired VP that 20 years ago told a speech recognition group that
  9. It's not that the first out have problems, it's that it would take a redesign to make this worth anything. You lose a navigation unit to gain an iPod interface. They didn’t even improve the audio capabilities. Sorry just upping the output to 4v, which requires you to have installed an amp that accepts 4v input already or upgrade it also, is not an improvement just a hype. An upgrade or top of the line In-Dash Navagation system would be to start with the Z, keeping all the Z features and adding things like: Blu-ray capability, larger hard drive, minimum of 5.1 (7.1 would be state-of-the-a
  10. Z series might be the older series, but new doesn’t make it better. Just use the Pioneer comparison of the Z3 to the F9x. You lose a navigation unit to gain an iPod interface. They didn’t even improve the audio capabilities. Sorry just upping the output to 4v, which requires you to have installed an amp that accepts 4v input already or upgrade it also, is not an improvement just a hype. An upgrade to the Z would start by keeping all the Z features and adding things like: Blu-ray capability, larger hard drive, minimum of 5.1 (7.1 would be state-of-the-art), THX, DTS, a (useful) mute bu
  11. Fantastic, thank you very much
  12. Does the F work with the SIR-PNR2 Sirius receiver? Thank you
  13. Mine has been by-passed since I installed it. Though I generally only use it for entering destinations when moving, everything works moving or not.
  14. If you bypass (which is strickly your choice and not any of my responcibility) the unit, you can play DVDs on the unit's LCD. The iPod® interface at this time does not do video. But you can purchase a cable from Apple® for playing output on a TV with standard audio and video plugs, and connect it to the video in. Since the cable also has the USB plug for power, you can get a car cigar ligher adapter and give the unit power while you watch.
  15. I'm using a GEX-P5700TV with my Z2. As a unit they work fine. As for reception in the Portland OR area it sucks. Before I mounted the antennas in my rear facia, I tried it just hanging loose in unobstructed mounting setup as well as other configurations. It didn't make any differance. As for FCC, all TV receivers must be digital reception capable and TV stations must brodcast a digital signal by date X. It does not mean on date X or X + anything analog is going to stop. Let's understand reality. TV stations live by advertizing. Dose anyone think any big company is going to allow so
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