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I doubt it. It is just easier to have a megapixel camera recording 360º, than having to bother with tracking... Why track, when you can just record everything?

may be an example of a new auto-tracking system, that works in the real world: http://www.mybwa.com/en/discan_ptz.html After watching the video on that link... I have to agree that it might sound good on paper, but if that is an "example that works in the real world", it looks like quite crappy to me.

Try this one: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd

Check out this thread: viewtopic.php?t=20325

Are you looking for them in the US, or do you want to import them? I buy them from China in 5m, 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m and 50m. They make them up to 80m I think (about 240 feet), but I never bothered with anything over 50m.

I'll try to give it a try, guess I'll be geting a Hikvision card just to do some tests, and checkout the different softwares available... Thx!

ENHANCE!!

Ok, I will add more info to my question; we have not touched much DVR PCI cards, but the ones that we do use are quite crappy. We are looking on adding to our catalog DVR PCI cards, and since we carry Hikvision DVRs, and are very happy with them, I want to test their DVR PCI cards too. Can anyone give me some opinions on their cards, good or bad? Original cards of course, I am not interested on problems around with clone cards...

Google for "Angel Eye KL509". Small recorder, SD card up to 32Gb, motion detection, 720x528@30fps, small pinhole camera (but you can use other AV sources)... Some sell it with CMOS camera, some with CCD camera.

Maybe your USB ports can not suply enough power for the 3 USB cameras to work at the same time.

Did you try BTWinCap drivers...? Anyway, being one of this 1BT878 chip, 4ch 25fps cheap cards, the time you have probably wasted already trying to get it to work is probably worth more than it would be buying a new card...

I have used iVMS-4000 under Win7 64 bit with no problems.

I am not sue I know what "braided copper shield" is, but I do understand the "nothing but trouble with foil-shielded wire" part. But doesn't this cable have "braided copper shield" and "foil shield"? Last picture, top this cable, bottom RG59 cable. Guess that for now I won't be using this cable until I have some time to just test a 100m run and see how it works out. Thanks!

8 x 100m, guess I am being lazy and that I should just take 100m and try it. Here is a close up picture. My tech english is not so good, but I would say that yes, it does have foil shield, and it looks like the core is solid copper. If it does have foil/aluminum shield, it is not a good idea to use this kind of cable?? I would have thought that a cable with foil would be better than without it...

Hello, Can anyone tell me what family of HIKVISION DVRs is the one in the picture? I have been offered for a good price some of this units, which from what I know are discontinued/an old model, and I would like to check out full specs around and see if I can download the manual/tech sheet from Hikvision's web site, but I am unable to find it without knowing the model name (and the unit has been "renamed" by the importer, so their model name is not the same as Hikvision's) Thanks!

hi fatmacheto, Yes, it is indeed a 80xx series DVR. I have been trying them out (HDIS models which are D1 12fps, HFIS would be D1 25fps and the price is a little bit higher), they do seem a nice piece of hardware, maybe with manues a bit outdated, latest Hikvision models come with newer firmwares. Do you know if this series is discontinued or to be phased out soon by Hikvision?

Just a quick question; has anyone used iVMS-4500 (iPhone client for HIKVISION DVRs) on a new iPhone 4, or on an old model with the latest Apple operating system, IOS4 I think? I have a customer that seems to be having problems with it, and the only 2 iPhones I have access to are old models running the old system (IOS3) which seem to work ok. Thanks!

Hello, I am looking for a medium/good brand of DVRs to sell. I am not looking for the greatest/most expensive manufacturers, at least not to have in stock (if a customer wants it, I will find it). I will be going to Shen Zhen next week, and I am mainly interested on manufacturers in China. We have purchased/sold many brands of DVRs, and I would like to find a good name to work with that will have a good supply of their products. I would also like a company that at least can have menus on their DVRs in english, and not engrish. I am looking for different kind of DVRs, from low end 4ch CIF 100fps, to hopefully 16ch D1 400fps. Always SATA hard drivers, hopefully VGA outputs, IP connection, etc. Software/network support should be at least GOOD. A DVR on which you have to manually install a OCX file on windows to be able to connect from Explorer is no good. A DVR which does not work ok with IE8 is no good. All in all, I have been looking for manufacturers, and one that seems to be at least "good" to me is Hikvision. Their web site is down right now, which doesn't say anything good about them hehe, but from what I checked out it looked good. I do think they are based in Hangzhou (near Shanghai), but I shouldn't have any problems finding their products in Shen Zhen. http://www.hikvision.com/en/eindex.asp Anyone can give me information about Hikvision? Also, any other manufacturers/brands that could be worth checking out in Shen Zhen? Any inputs will be more than welcome, thanks!

This is not Q-See's fault. I won't say it is your fault either, but you can not blame in on the manufacturer. If you had x days to return the product to the store you purchased it from, if you were told by a salesman that this card will do this and that, but it doesn't, if you were promised some software that dopes not come with the card, and now you don't have it; this is not Q-See's problem, and they are not the ones to be held acountable because some other retailer closed doors.

I deal with one of their distributors, I always go now to Guangdong province in the south (Hong Kong, Shen Zhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan). Hikvision and Dahua main headquarters are in Hangzhou, on east China, near Shanghai and Ningbo. And anyway, I am small fish on a big sea, if I were to try to buy direct from them, they would probably just point at me and laugh

Thanks on your input tesc_cctvpro, I have been working with Hikvision and Dahua, and I am quite pleased with their products, hardware and softwarewise. I had been working with Hikvision products even before knowing it, since in Spain they were being rebranded with another name, those on my post from 24/Mar/2010 are Hikvision DVRs. I buy Hikvision and Dahua both from Spain and China, low-end models are usually cheaper for me to buy them in Spain from big importers, mid and high-end models usually are worth it for me to import them. And I will be going back to China in two weeks (I have been going to China 2 times a year since 2002). I know they are both the only 2 chinese companies amongst the top 50 cctv manufacturers in the world (from your post I understand there are now 3 chinese manufacturer on that list), and for now I am quite happy with their products. As you stated, "engrish" is a clear sign of low quality, crap documentation, and bad support.

You won't find another "compatible" viewing software. You are tied to using it to the included software/activew that comes with the DVR, if it is "really bad", only thing you can do is change to another DVR.

No clue, but being a 4 chip BT878 card, if you need drivers/software you can probably use it under Windows XP with BTWinCap opensource drivers. I would also say it is a 16ch 100fps card, but unless you have the cable for the big connector, you will probably only have the 4ch that have BNC connectors on the card. RCA connector is probably video out.

I know it is an old model, but I still work with Hikvision series 7000/7200 very often. There's better models today when watching from internet, but this one at least does D1 at 12fps, when most of the cheaper Hikvision models just do D1 at 6fps. Thanks!

My Hero is rooted and I have no problem installing APKs myself, will check it out, thanks! Any hints on where to sign up to know when they release the final version? Does Hikvision have any kind of mailing list, forum, or something to stay updated on their hardware/software releases?