thats one of the complaints about the unit....hopefully pioneer will raise the max and lower the min a decent amount, but who knows, with all the other things that need fixing, that not a priority

Maximum brightness is a hardware limitation of the backlight, so don't expect that to change with a firmware update.

rly? didnt kno that, so that would probably require goin onto the actual board and changing resistors or whatever limits the brightness? forget that lol

Yeah, the backlight bulb will only get as bright as it physically can. To get any brighter you would have to open up the unit and replace the backlight with a brighter component. True, as it is now, it might be set up that at 10 it's not using the backlight's full potential... but I don't see why it would ever be built like that.

maybe its a precaution to not short out the light? cuz isnt it like any other form of light, bulb or led, too much power can blow it? jus like rms on a sub, it can still go a lil higher before it reaches peak power but constant peak will eventually blow the sub.

but at the same time there seems to be more complaints about the glare and it bein not dim enough. higher brightness wont help the glare issue and the nighttime issue is completely opposite.

The problem is that Pioneer used the wrong display for the application. My guess is that this is the only off the shelf LCD they could find in the right size with the resolution they wanted. Rather than build the right thing, they chose to save some money by using something that was already available.

They should have used a transflective display, but the one included completely washes out with any reflection on it.

Well another thing to consider... upping the brightness of the backlight over what it was originally designed to work at could drastically shorten it's life... And that is not cool when your backlight blows.

Yep, that's why they should have used a transflective display. They don't rely on a back-light, and instead use a forward light source, which means they actually get brighter when the sun shines on them.