Nobeltec has announced termination of support for VNS and Admiral, and wants us to upgrade to TimeZero
Problem for us is that we have Nobeltec PC Radar, (pre-Ethernet version) which the new software has abandoned.
The Nobeltec charts we own will continue to work, but since we seem to keep moving every year we had taken to renting charts for four month chunks. Worked well for years, but there will be no sales or rentals after Jan 31st
Nobeltec's decision to discontinue VNS in favor of new and hopefully better, software is reasonable, but to arbitrarily stop selling unlock codes for the charts we already have on DVD is aggravating, to say the least.
Effectively, Nobeltec is trying to push us into buying all the charts we might need in the next few years by 31st January 2014, or buying a new radar. (I feel that the ne generation broadband radars are a year or two away from maturity to do that)
I think we will buy Nobeltec charts for now, then a new radar and some non-Nobeltec navigation software in a year or two
Any suggestions?