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Aqua Vu Showdown

Blainebob

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Bob,

Let me know if you get it how it works. I posted on here a couple of days ago asking the same thing and got very little response. It seems that those that have used them, used last years model the VPG. All of which were sent back in for updates and hand't been tested yet on the ice.

I watched a copy of the video that Nature Vision puts out showing the unit and some other products and was disappointed. It didn't go into detail at all on the product. One thing that really bothered me was they didn't show the zoom feature in use on the video or the "ice" mode.

Information on their HSOforum is even worse. They compare the unit to flashers that don't have the features you get today. There are no videos or pictures that are usefull. All the reviews you will find are either talking about the old unit or guys that have seen the unit running in simulation mode and not actually used it.

Today my amazing wife to be purchased the Marcum VX-1 as an early Christmas gift for me. I hope that the time it spends on is also time we spend together on the ice.

Maybe if Nature Vision provides more information on the Showdown and it gets some real life use without needed to be updated it would be a consideration in the future.

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I've never used one, but I ran into a guy last week that had owned one. We were both in checking out the Jason Mitchell rods. Anyway, he claimed there was a lag-time between moving your jig and seeing it move that about drove him crazy. He also said it shouldn't have -- that it was maybe a quarter or a third of a second -- but it made him feel like he was fishing in one of those old voice-over karate films.

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Like I said I think one of the biggest turn offs for me was the fact that everyone that purchased the VPG had to get upgrades in the software. That's wonderful that they can do that, but nothing really changed with what was causing the problems. There wasn't other new units out there that suddenly caused interference. They just didn't do there homework and introduced a product that had it's testing done by consumers that paid money for something they thought would work when they picked it up, like it should have.

I like to see test videos were they show units being tested with 4 units within a fish house, or in the middle of a tournement. I like to see real life situations that I'm going to encounter, not some guy in the middle of a lake by himself with a underwater camera right to next to him so he can actually tell you what he's seeing on the sonar screen.

On the video the guy talks about the walleye you can easily see right off the bottom that would be next to impossilbe to see with other units. The Showdown he was using didn't tell him that, his camera did. Without his camera for all he would know it could be someones Showdown they got mad at that they threw in the lake.

I really like how Vexilar and Marcum show their products in real life situations. They test there products and provide information from real world use, not paying customers. None of the LCD companies really do this.

They need to get their heads in the game if they want to be considered players.

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I have the VPG with the new upgrades.. I have yet to test it yet. as we dont have ice. I have used the zoom and really like it! Moveable zoom for the $229 price I think is pretty darn good for someone who didnt want to pay the larger prices of the LX-5 or Vex FL18.

The Showdown/VPG has 8 different shades of gray which I was able to tell the different shades quite easy. I dont think it wwill replace the FL-18 or LX-5, but then again I dont think it was made too.. I feel it is however a wonderful deal for $229

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