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If you already have Hikvision cameras, I say go for the Hikvision NVR.

When you go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ what do you get? xxx.xxx.13.171 or xxx.xxx.13.4? Also, are you trying the hik-online domain from inside your own network, or from outside?

They say that "you get what you pay for". You buy at crap prices? You will get crap. There are good products coming from China. But if you expect to get them as cheap as possible, well, you know what you will get then.

Wow, an external SCSI port, really? That unit must be very old. I really do not think it is worth your time to "learn" how it works. Seeing that it is only 4 channels, if the cameras still work fine, just buy a new DVR.

Keep in mind iVMS-4200 can adapt the stream you are using depending the size of the monitor/resolution. It does not make sense to watch 16 stream at 1920x1080 unless you have a 7680x4320 resolution desktop/screen, which I doubt you have. If you have your screen resolution at 1920x1080, when you are watching 16 cameras, iVMS-4200 will use the substream, which you can have set at a lower resolution. When you double click a camera to make it full screen, then it will change to the main stream.

That is a rebranded Dahua NVR. It should be compatible with those Vivotek cameras, if they support ONVIF, otherwise you might have a hard time geting them to work (if at all). The fact that it states it is compatible with Vivotek cameras does not mean it will work with all Vivotek cameras.

Very sad news, indeed

Just tried it, mine are working ok.

Picture of those "passive baluns"? Also, you should have used the 6 extra wires for power, and not just two.

Yes, it also applies to live viewing. Keep in mind that with IP cameras the encoding is done at the camera level. So when you are viewing a stream on the NVR, it has to be decoded by the unit.

http://www.samsungsv.com/Product/Detail/53/Samsung-SDE-4002N-8-Channel-DVR-Security-System Go to resourse download. Download the user manual in ZIP format, uncompress. Open the manual, go to page 14. Here you can see the connection it uses for the RJ45 connectors. You will need to either find baluns that use the exact same wiring diagrams (I think it won't be easy), or do the connections yourself. If you are able to get the cameras working, then you might go ahead and use any brand DVR. You could even use the current DVR to power the cameras, and just take out the 2 video cables from the UTP cable, use an external balun, and use another DVR to record. So the old non working DVR would be there just acting as a power supply for the cameras. It might get messy. If the system is very old, it might be worth to just reuse the existing cable, and get a new system from scratch.

It doesn't look bad to me. It is 1920x1080. Are the colors off from reality? You can try adjusting them from both the DVR and the camera. Do you know that camera has OSD menus that can be adjusted from the DVR? Check this out, it is in spanish, but it should give you a good hint on how to do it. http://www.securamente.com/hdtvi-como-usar-el-osd-en-las-camaras-que-lo-soporten/ You should also check out the bitrate and picture quality you are using for your main stream.

Not a chance to get a license plate from the screenshots you posted ;(

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Quite funny that a GBP136 4 camera kit is advertised as "Professional".

Can you post a good resolution screenshot of what you are geting? You can make it easily from the web interface. That HDTVI DVR is 720p/1080p, make sure you have your streams configured to 1080p, since the camera DS-2CE16D5T-AVFIT3 is 1080p. Those are good cameras, and you should be geting a very good 1920x1080 image if everything is done right.

You do not understand Hikvision models... There is no such thing as a "DS-76" unit. When you hear someone talk about DS-76 series, they mean any unit that has a name like DS-76xx. It might be DS-7604 (4ch), DS-7608 (8ch), DS-7616 (16ch), etc. And after the numbers, you will get some letters. Those letters also mean something, different models on the series (like the P means it has POE ports). So of course you will not find information about "DS-76", because such unit does not exist.

First one doesn't even say which one they are selling. I would assume the cheapest, which might be DS-7608NI-SE/P. Second one is DS-7608NI-E2/P, even if the picture says DS-7608NI-SE/P.

So... If I understand right, you are comparing "DS-76 series" against "DS-7608NI-SE/P"? I am sure you must have noticed that "DS-7608NI-SE/P" begins with "DS-76". So you are comparing a given unit, against a series of many units, including itself?

I would not call them "advantages", they are just different ways of operating. I prefer to have IP/ports forwarded and access my devices. But EZVIZ and P2P systems are fine for people that do not want/know how to set up their connections.

Cheap cameras, cheap results. If you did get cameras with no IR-cut, then the colors during the day will be quite bad. If you try the cameras indoors, with no outdoors light from the sun, I am sure that the colors will be way better than that.

You did not set up DDNS on the NVR. And I do not know for what reason, but Hikvision allows you to configure either EZVIZ, or hik-online. Enabling one disables the other. So if your device came preconfigured for EZVIZ, it did not come with hik-online activated. Hik-online is very easy to use if you know how to do it, but you would have had to manually open the ports on your connection by hand.

What is the full model of your unit? DS-7200 is just a "family", you have many different models. Older devices from a few years back do not have QR code, and do not have updated firmwares.

It seems that your blue cable here sucks. If you can not use it wired, there are only a few options that might apply. Disconnect your NVR, connect a netbook using that cable, and see if the network works at all using that computer.

Correct settings should be with DHCP disabled (that is, unchecked). And use 192.168.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS servers.