Don't know about console navigations, but whenever I buy a new GPS (I have
three so far) the maps are already about four years old. I wonder if the
2008 update is actually based on an older map. For me its cheaper and better
to have a new GPS with the latest technology rather than updating the pricey
maps and be stuck with a old GPS - so cheap now.



"Ramapo" <Unknown@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Aside from any issues of price for the upgrades, the need for one
> occasionally is more necessary in some parts of the country than
> other. In the Washington DC area, there have been so many changes to
> interchanges, new roads, etc. from development, that my 2005 Navi is
> getting a little long in the tooth for accuracy. Nothing like trying
> to follow the Navi to an address to find out that the exits, etc, it
> is telling you to take don't exist or have been so completely
> reorganized that you sail by and have to figure out by trial and error
> just how to get back on the route! Or have it tell you the address
> doesn't exist.
>
> I plan to update during 2008 at some point.
>
> And one last question? Has anyone actually tried to rip one of these
> discs and make a disc image? I never see them on the news server
> groups.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:36:25 GMT, Larry in AZ
> <usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote:
>
>>Waiving the right to remain silent, akheel <akheelremovethis@pacbell.net>
>>said:
>>
>>> Must only apply to certain years. $149 is definitely the price for the
>>> 05
>>> TL. And it just came today, so I guess they got their stock sooner than
>>> they thought. On the 05 they also updated the POI and fixed the daylight
>>> savings problem caused by our gov't's genius move in changing the dates.
>>> With all of the reprograming required akin to the Y2K problem, that
>>> little move probably cost more that it saved.
>>
>>Whatever, it's still too damned much for what you get. After paying two
>>grand for a Navi system, updates to the DVD shouldn't be more than a few
>>dollars. $29.95 sounds about right.
>>
>>The marketing approach is stupid. It's as if they want to discourage
>>sales.
>>
>>How many people buy them at $150-$200..? Not many, I'd bet. I won't -
>>not
>>for the minor changes they contain. If they dropped the price to
>>something
>>reasonable, the majority might, and the profit on them would be much
>>greater.