I've made numerous attempts and still cannot upload a background image. I have followed the instructions step by step each time. jpg's in a folder marked Pictures along with another folder filled with 100 MB of images. The unit recognizes that a CD-Rom is in the drive, but the button for uploading images never becomes active. Does anyone have any advice on this?

I have been having the exact same problem.

Me too

Its a bitch, everything has to be exactly like it says in the manual. I never could get a disc that it would recognize burnt using Roxio on my laptop, I ended up using my ancient desktop with nero and it worked...

On a related note, does anybody know what size image is needed to fill the entire screen on the Z1?

Thanks 03Vic-HPP, I used Nero this time and it worked. However, I'm having the same problem as you as far as filling up the screen. I did the maximum resolution Pioneer says it supports and it still has black bars on the sides.

The resolution size is 500x240. I've uploaded two background pictures and a startup picture at this resolution and they fit the screen completely. Only put a few pictures in the BG folder, and just put other data junk on the disc. Dont put any music on it. Also make sure the names of your pictures contain only letters and numbers. Also, when I made my disc, I completely filled it up with junk (if that matters).

justiz said:

The resolution size is 500x240. I've uploaded two background pictures and a startup picture at this resolution and they fit the screen completely. Only put a few pictures in the BG folder, and just put other data junk on the disc. Dont put any music on it. Also make sure the names of your pictures contain only letters and numbers. Also, when I made my disc, I completely filled it up with junk (if that matters).

You changed the start-up pic on a Z1?? How??

htrdlnc said:

You changed the start-up pic on a Z1?? How??

I'm sorry, I thought this was in the n1/2/3 section. I have an avic-n2. I would assume changing the startup picture on the z1 is similar to the n, if it is possible at all.

So has anybody figured out what size pic you need to fill the entire screen on the Z1? I dont want to waste any more discs till I know lol

03Vic-HPP said:

So has anybody figured out what size pic you need to fill the entire screen on the Z1? I dont want to waste any more discs till I know lol

You should be able to use a CDR/W. Thats what I use to move music into it so I know it can read them.

Ummm thats not what I asked

read 3 posts above your's.

03Vic-HPP said:

So has anybody figured out what size pic you need to fill the entire screen on the Z1? I dont want to waste any more discs till I know lol

All the units use 500x240.

JasonH said:

All the units use 500x240.

Are you sure, beacause the Z1 is the only one with a 7" screen.

JasonH said:

All the units use 500x240.

Are you sure, beacause the Z1 is the only one with a 7" screen.

htrdlnc said:

JasonH said:

All the units use 500x240.

Are you sure, beacause the Z1 is the only one with a 7" screen.

I wouldn't be surprised. It's not uncommon for one device to have a 6.5 inch screen and one to have a 7 inch screen and both have the same resolution.

That happened with me and a camera, my mom has the cannon SD400 with the 2 inch screen and I got the SD550 with the 2.5 inch screen (both situations are 0.5 inch difference but with the digital camera going from 2 to 2.5 inches is a much bigger % difference). And both screens were the exact same resolution. You couldn't fit more on the screen, they just made the dots bigger.

I'm not saying this is what pioneer is doing, but just a 7.2% difference in screen size doesn't mean they changed the resolution. It could be the same as the 6.5 inch screens.

I finally got it to work using Nero. I made several sized images and the one that went to all edges of the screen for me measured 2592 (width) by 1305 (height) pixels with a resolution of 300 PPI.

Archangel said:

I finally got it to work using Nero. I made several sized images and the one that went to all edges of the screen for me measured 2592 (width) by 1305 (height) pixels with a resolution of 300 PPI.

Why don't you post some of those pictures up here for us for us to use as templates or something so we get an idea of what works.

Yep, the 2592x1305 did it, this is the image Im using for AV bacground...

03Vic-HPP said:

Yep, the 2592x1305 did it, this is the image Im using for AV bacground...

I used the above settings (2592x1305) and it worked great. Thanks for the information guys. I've attached a pic of my Z1.

Is there a Max file size???

~WW