Kenwood Navigation DVD v 2.2

Damn! Not a single reply on such a Subaru quality/feature issue! Am I the only person around who somehow compared both these DVDs?

Hmmm! My next car should probably be chosen among the top ten most sold ones (Toyota, Audi, etc...). At least the number of consumers to share experiences together will be bigger.

Z.

Patience pays! This morning I stumbled accross one of the few Subaru men who handles garantie cases of local dealers.

About the missing 3D view he told me that this year Subaru Japan did not reach the same deal with Kenwood for the feature set of the built-in navigation sytem. As a result (or punishment!?) the 3D view option was removed for the v2.2.

I tried to install V1.1 back but without success and he confirmed me that there is no known way to return to the older firmware.

Thus my advice: Subaru owners of the V1.1 firmware ('04 models)! Think twice before upgrading your DVD.

Zaid

"Zelidar" wrote in news:1130340932.852735.101880 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Hi Zelidar,

Good that you made this post, because I been looking around thinking we did something wrong.

This is absolutely ridicules, we bought some Legacy 3.0. The one we did test had a much more comprehensive functionality including the Bird view (3D).

Now when we got there most expensive top of the line cars, they trimmed the satnav down.

I don't know if you should laugh or cry, we went from very high expectations to very irritated in no time.

I have asked around if there is a way to downgrade if you might get hold of the older version but so far no luck.

-tt

Buying a car with a built in nav system is a sheer idiocy exactly for the reasons the two of you described: you're tied to what the maker of the car is offering. Why anyone in their own mind buy something so complicated with no maintenance plan in mind? If the two of you haven't been such a pair of idiots you would've either got

1) An aftermarket stand alone nav system that has a large user base. (Even then there are reports saying that roadmate 760 is buggier than 700.) 2) Used a laptop with a bluetooth GPS unit and suffered from inconvenient access to the nav functions thru the kayboard (but at least had control over downgrading the software to your liking).

Either way, don't blame the manufacturer. It was YOU who paid your money for this piece of crap. You did not do your homework: now it's time to pay the price. I have no sympathy for you whatsoever.

"Body Roll" wrote in news:1142535521.041829.139250 @i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Well, it's supposed to be one of the better on the market. The other thing is the integration into the car, it's perfect when it's from the manufacture of the car, but less mounted afterwards.

Other than that, you are right that normally a third party is better.

-tt

(and, no reason to be rude ever IMO ;-))

Yes. But there is no way to upgrade that unless there is a single/double din form factor PC riding in there. Even if that was the case I wonder if there is any off the shelf software for PCs that does the same thing that the dedicated nav systems do (including support for touch screen, etc). Until that happens for something as fast moving target as a gps system I would not ever confine myself to a built in system. I have no money to waste. Complex elektroniks must be upgradeable in both directions.

Well, my apologies. I should've toned down my reply quite a bit. Anyhow, I hope you did not expect the upgraded firmware to cook you breakfast in the morning and bring in the groceries :) As local yokels say if it ain't broken don't fix it ;-)