First of all, just purchased the AVIC-Z1 and had it installed in 2005 F250SD.

NOVICE ALERT!!! having trouble installing new backgrounds... burnt several pics in jpg to cdr...unit says reading cd, then nothing... any ideas???

You have to create a folder on the CD-R called "Pictures"

Put your jpg's in that folder and then burn the CD.

yes- i did that on the second try, still same thing happens...

reading cd, then nothing

Don't burn it using XP/Vista.

You have to use a burning program like Nero.

Sometimes computers come with Sonic Record Now burning software or a scaled down version of Nero. Try one of those. You can download a trial version of Nero from www.download.com for free and burn it that way. If you still have trouble after that, try a different brand of CD-R's.

As others have said already:

Burn with Nero or a burning program don't use windows built in CD burner.

You might need 100 megs or so of junk.

Put your jpg's in the pictures folder on the CD.

Some other things to try:

You want your CR burned as "universal" as possible. Many formats and settings are only reliably read by a windows computer. What I also did was in nero go to the settings for the burned CD, set it to:

Data Mode 1, ISO 9660 only, file names 8.3 format (and save your jpgs as 8.3 format with simple charters no jpgs like "my bad @ss truck.jpg" or whatever, just "truck1.jpg"), keep the label simple, no spaces.

If the jpgs aren't being seen then it's a problem with the format of the cd or the medium you are burning on or the lack of 100 megs of filler data for the cd to read. If you can see the jpg files and they are not importing that's a problem with the way you saved your jpgs.

i had no problem with the first cd of backgrounds i installed... however i have the same problem now and burned several cds... I used the windows burner, but now im going to try nero.

THANKS everyone....Used nero, worked no problem...

me too... used sonic, and no pronblem.