Honda Car Forum

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.

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"A lack of common sense is now considered a disability,
with all the privileges that this entails."

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.

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
news:98i6q3pq6qkddnbqrue9q3nienp962qh5i@4ax.com...
> 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.

Waiving the right to remain silent, Ramapo <Unknown@verizon.net> said:

> 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.

Nor have I. Therefore, it must not be possible, or the Warez people would be
doing it.

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Larry J. - Remove spamtrap in ALLCAPS to e-mail

"A lack of common sense is now considered a disability,
with all the privileges that this entails."