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I like it. Do you mind me posting them on Youtube. I can paste them together into one video.

Huh, you are having a hard time, yet we pointed them out to you. Maybe you didn't do the math correctly. If you get two cameras for $349, divide by two to get the unit price, so $174.50 each, say plus say 8% sales tax, that's $188.46 and that is less than $200. If you only want one, find someone here to split the deal with you.

Feces happens. I know they are HikVision because I asked HikVision and yes, Swann OEM's their cameras.

Try Tina at DSDCCTV, they have them in stock, you'll get the camera in a few days.

What I need is a PC suitable for this for $200 with video analytics software, the cameras are the cheap part. Don't know of 1080P IR cameras for less money than the Swann 2-pack at Costco.com for $349. The less expensive way involves committing a crime

That's amazing that you can get that level of detail on the screens. Usually that's blurred out so close to the camera. They confirmed HikVision, they said so at the show but support comes from Swann.

$50 more get the Swann bullet cameras at Costco.com, $349 for two 1080P (double the resolution) and has normal lenses, like 4mm where the Q-See are 6mm and you'll be posting questions like "will this lens fit". The 1080P Q-See dome, $199 is a day camera, so as long as you have white light at night, it can work, up to you but I usually get day/night cameras for myself with built in illuminators. If you want domes, step up a little and get the ACTi D72 dome, 3MP, day/night, IR LEDs, free NVR software. Domes are more discrete and vandal resistant. Should be under $300.

They actually started talking about the other 15's, the D15 and S15 cameras due out towards the end of the year. The thermal was interesting but Flir had the best thermal imagine display.

No, not blurred. You think reading plates would be easy, but at that angle, it's not visible, even with the 5MP P3367-VE mounted in the same location, same focal length it looks blurred. Even the car across the street when that's there and I have a clear view of the plate in perfect lighting you can't read the plate number.

I don't know how much of a bargain it is when there's i7-3770 processor desktops for about $650 and you really don't see that many high end AMD servers on sale. Sure, the chip costs are less but I don't believe the AMD has the video built in where the Intel has the HD4000 video built in.

Try the ACTi D55 indoor dome, 3MP (you can use in 1080P mode), has IR illuminators, day/night IR cut filter, fixed 3.6mm lens (if you want a varifocal lens get the D65). Should run about $250-300 and about $100 more for the varifocal lens that I doubt you will need. I like domes indoors because they can't be pushed out of the way and they are less obnoxious indoors, better WAF. You'll also need a PoE injector or switch and a PC to run NVR software (free) to record. The next step up is the Axis P33 domes, the only indoor one with IR LEDs is the P3364-LV, should be able to find it under $900 and is 1MP or 720P. The reason I recommend cameras with IR LEDs is because indoors, in your home, it will be dark at night, you will not be happy without IR illumination. You can't effectively expect to use motion detect lights if that's what you are thinking. Zoom does add to the price. The ACTi KCM-5611 has very good low light capability, 1080P, IR illuminators and 18X zoom, not sure how you can possibly use that in your home, but you can likely find it for under $800.

This one is easy to explain. Look at the video, you can see that WDR is not turned on, dark areas like shadows have no detail. Yes, if you want to avoid that effect, turn WDR off, turn NR off and it will give you a better looking picture during the day but then why get the E33, the D33 is less expensive and the only difference is WDR. I'm testing the Axis P3367 now, 5MP, WDR, and with WDR on the image looks grainy during the day, without it looks crystal clear and this 5MP camera costs maybe 4X as much as the E33. It seems that 5MP brings out the flaws in WDR that you don't see or at least notice with with lower resolution cameras.

You should decrease motion blur by getting as close to inline with the direction of motion as possible which you will be driving behind someone. Going to 1/1000 of a second will not work at night. If you switch to day mode which you can, it will stay in color but you won't get the benefit of IR illuminators. We were looking at an Axis Q1604-E for this but a ACTi KCM-5611 would also be a good choice, especially the 18x zoom as you want to get a tight picture of the license plate area. The only reason we were looking at Axis is there's a company that has an app that runs on the camera to trigger an event off the plate number.

There are reviews on 5MP cameras, currently have the Axis P3367 setup but ISC West took priority but here's the ACTi E33. BTW, that image was provided to law enforcement as that silver car has been seen hanging around various streets for hours possibly casing homes with criminal intent.

Pricey when the Q-see bullets are $150 at Costco.

I use BI with a 3MP Dahua camera, works OK, not perfect because of stuttering issues but records in 3MP. ACTi NVR records fine with the 3 and 5MP cameras. If I remember correctly, the Hikvision rep said their higher end NVR's can do higher resolution when I asked him why 1080P when the bullets are 3MP. Didn't think about asking him about ONVIF. I only asked this of the Cricket camera folks from Canada, they said ONVIF 2.1 which has the motion detection.

What's your budget? Indoor or outdoor? I know you are coming from Foscam and don't want to scare you with what some higher end cameras cost so I'll start with the best values in a 1080P (or better) camera. A good value in a camera I recently reviewed is the ACTi E32, a 3MP outdoor IR bullet with WDR. It's about $350ish or the D32, same camera without WDR for about $50 less. Has a nice crisp clear image with good color balance. Can FTP video or images and has video motion detection. If you're budget is not that high, Swann from Costco, similar to the E32 in that it's a 3MP IR bullet. While I haven't reviewed it yet, I did the see the camera in action yesterday and at least during the day, it performed well. It's about 1/2 the price of the ACTi at 350 for a 2-pack. I can't say what features it has and it's so new it's not even on Hikvision (the manufacturer's) website yet. Dahua recently came out with a 1080P IR mini bullet, the IPC-HFW3200S about $200ish. Speaking from experience with it's larger brother, it has good image quality, can FTP video and images, motion detection. My only issue is that Dahua has not stepped up with their support and probably the #1 complaint, although those models sold by Q-See do have excellent support but as far as I know, they don't carry this model. Why I like 3MP over 1080P is that just about all 3MP cameras can do 1080P, but I like the 4:3 aspect ratio that 3MP offers better than 16:9 for surveillance.

For what it's worth, the Hikvision (Costco Swann package), their NVR's have PoE ports to match the NVR channels. So the 8 channel Hikvision NVR has 8 PoE ports. The 16 channel, when it's available will have 16 PoE ports. I agree, this is the easiest way to go, plug and play for someone that is not hardcore as many of us are and is used to analog. Don't know what Dahua was thinking when they make a 16 channel NVR with 4 PoE ports.

Does the software show clue as to the manufacturer of the camera? Is this generic software that works with other brands of cameras?

are these not the same camera ????? which ever way you look at it there both dahua ?? Frustrated with Dahua's policies and not being to market/sell the cameras as Dahua cameras, they switched to another brand in China. They won't say what brand it is and there's so many camera manufacturers in China it's hard to say. Some of the models he's worked on look like IPSCam but it could be they use the same shell. Think of it like the old days when Foscam came out and 20 other manufactures made an identical looking camera. We all called them "clones". That's because the case was made by one company and everyone used it. Going to ISC yesterday, one is overwhelmed by all the companies that spring up and setup a booth at ISC with their new brand of cameras that did not exist a year ago. Then you have to think, will they be around next year, is it worth looking at something new when there's so many established players. There's no way I can cover all these new brands as they exceed all the known brands. Seems like the wild west like PC's where years ago when everyone had their own brand, people built them in the garages and now very few would consider an unbranded PC. My father used to manufacture TVs in South America back when TV's were made by small companies, yet today most people buy known TV brands.

From what I understand, there's 3 types of cameras, analog, SDI and IP. You are already familiar with analog, not much I can say. It's easy because you can buy cameras from different brands, DVRs from different brands and it all works together. SDI is not like that, you buy an NVR and cameras from a single vendor but it uses coax in the same way an analog camera but offers higher resolution, 1080P is common. The advantage is you can re-use existing analog coax and it's more plug/play. Network or IP cameras are totally different. Each camera is like a computer with a lens and you have to treat it that way, meaning you have to understand TCP/IP networking, switches, routers, and cameras are attached to a local area network, your PC is attached to the network, your NVR is attached to this network. You also have to understand network topography as putting 20 cameras, 5MP each on a 100Mbps TCP/IP network will not work. For home or small business users with 4-5 cameras, not much to worry about but you really have to know what you are doing if you have say 10-20 cameras or more. Each camera model, even within a manufacturer may be different enough so an NVR or NVR software may or may not work with it. So it's not interchangeable between NVRs and cameras as analog is. For example, if you buy an NVR from say ACTi, you can't use it with cameras from Axis. They sell more generic NVR's like from Qnap, Nuuo, Synology, but you have to make sure that the cameras you buy are compatible down to the camera model. So they may say they support and Axis P3364 but you may have an Axis P3367 and it may or may not work.

Don't know who asked me, but I confirmed at ISC that the Swann cameras are manufactured by Hikvision but Hikvision is making a push to distribute cameras branded as Hikvision in the U.S.. The image quality of the cameras at the show was quite good but it's a well lit building so can't say how well they perform in low light. They are 3MP cameras but the NVR limits them to 1080P so if you use them without the NVR, you can get 3MP out of them. They claim, side by side, they have better image quality and low light performance than the Dahua bullets.

Either there's something wrong with the camera, or you configured it way wrong. Start by updating the firmware to the latest version, that helps as there's some noise reduction and wdr options not available in the shipped version.

A couple of people on the forum like Synology Surveillance Station and the support all 3 brands and can do camera or nvr motion detection on certain models. Basically you buy a Synology NAS that comes with a single camera license and then add additional cameras.

I'm currently reviewing the Axis P3367, you must mean the ACTi cameras. The e72/e73 should perform like the e32/e33 I reviewed except in a dome form factor. I'm going to Vegas tomorrow to the ISC conference, I'll see what they are demo'ing on the floor. The dome to get will be the E84 and they are taking orders but haven't shipped yet. Hopefully I can review that real soon.