irons
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Post by irons on Nov 9, 2017 9:14:37 GMT -5
Anyone else see where Garmin bought navionics back in October.
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Post by Shadslinger on Nov 9, 2017 11:24:52 GMT -5
Navico and navionics are 2 separate companies. But yes garmin bought navionics. Probably as retaliation toward navico who sued garmin over their down vu transducers and won. So garmin had to completely redo the transducers along with big money fines. I'm betting You won't be seeing no more navionics maps on navico products anymore.
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Post by johnr on Nov 9, 2017 11:34:33 GMT -5
Either way, we got screwed with crappy transducers and now others will get screwed by not having access to navionics charts. Most likely.
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irons
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Post by irons on Nov 9, 2017 11:37:41 GMT -5
Actually garmin won in the appeals court. So they are the same transducers from what I read. Garmin won the appeal in September then bought navco in October
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Post by Shadslinger on Nov 9, 2017 11:40:27 GMT -5
No they changed transducers 2 years ago. The GT transducers were the ones in question. They removed the down vu element and are now cv transducers
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irons
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Post by irons on Nov 9, 2017 11:48:24 GMT -5
Garmin has been selling side vu for quite a while, they may be different from what they were. From the reviews they are still pretty good. I bet garmin will still sell navionics, that’s a lot of money.
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Post by Shadslinger on Nov 9, 2017 12:45:59 GMT -5
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Post by Shadslinger on Nov 9, 2017 12:56:09 GMT -5
They are good. I love my 2 garmins. 2d chirp and side view are great. Down leaves alittle more to desire but for what we do works fine
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irons
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Post by irons on Nov 9, 2017 13:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by Shadslinger on Nov 9, 2017 13:57:18 GMT -5
Nice. Hopefully they'll go back to producing the original transducers then. Those GT transducers have some sweet screenshots.
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