I'm buying a new unit and have been putting it off. This unit for the time being will only be for livescope. I've looked at the 1242xsv, 1243xsv( not sure this one was with the newer style lense), today for kicks and giggles I went to bass pro so I could compare. The 3 together, yea now I'm even considering the 8612xsv. Of the 3 I definitely see a clear difference in clarity. But as I stated the display they had of the 1243xsv I'm sure was not the new version with the ips glass. Currently I run a 1042xsv and it's a good graph but the pixel count is lower and harder to see images. Honestly the 8612 seemed much clearer than the 42 or 43. But is the 8612 really worth the 1k more. I will add most likely later on will consider using the unit for sonar, side and down. Likely in the future will remove my lowerance console add a garmin for the console. I do like the gpsmaps over the echo models. Looking for ideals and folks that had the opportunity to compare the new 1243xsv to the 8612xsv in the real world. Im after picture clarity!.