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Old September 18th 20, 12:11 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Hero, Garmin or OTHER?

Not about cameras, but about rotten customer service.

Ever since my Garmin Pilot software running on an iPad in quit in /_mid
flight_/ with a statement that my subscription had expired, I won't buy
any Garmin product.Â* Fortunately I was in clear skies when the
application locked up.Â* After landing, I renewed the subscription to get
home and it again worked fine.Â* But after getting home, I started
looking for (and found) another EFB product.

Dan

On 9/17/2020 6:36 AM, Jay Campbell wrote:
On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 1:28:28 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Reading the dismal (I'm being kind) reviews of the latest Hero Gopro I'm looking at alternatives. Kind of.

Has anybody settled on an alternative?

So far what I've seen either desaturates color or has reliability issues.

(Read=this is NOT an endorsement of Garmin OR GoPro.).

Thanks for any unbiased non-renumerative input.

I had an early model Garmin Virb and found it to be quite good....until it got glitchy, needed updates, sent back to Garmin for rebuild. That one quit working. They offered an upgrade at 10% off retail. Each exchange cost me something. Then Garmin just stopped supporting the Virb and came out with something that looked more like a GoPro. Very disappointing to have a company with such a good name treat one product line like an out-of-wedlock child. No suggestions, sorry.


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Dan, 5J