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I bought a hard drive from Microcenter and installed it myself. It is very easy.

I just recently purchased the dahua 960H hybrid. It records 8 analog cameras and 16 IP cameras. As far as

the IP cameras, it can record, 4 1080p or 8 720p or 16 D1 IP cameras. Do not get mistaken when they

say 16 HD IP cameras. It only can handle 4 1080p cameras, not 16. Otherwise, shipping was fast, box

was well packed, and I was not fond of customer service, but figured out emails was the best way

to talk to them. If you call them, they never answer, they always have to call you back.

You taut you taw a puddy tat?

Your shoes were on the wrong feet?

Your hamster ate the cable?

I think they just came out but my distributor can't order them till end of September.

What, you guys never had a big burly guy walking around your house before and didn't have your contacts in yet?

Oops, my bad! Lmao!

My typo, I meant standard 24 gauge cat 5. More than likely the interference is not a power issue, but it would

be a better idea to double up for power. You have extra wires anyway. I have never seen or heard of

video issues if you double up for video?

And, you can connect the camera directly to the monitor to make sure it is not the camera and THAN plug it

directly into the dvr to make sure there are no transmission issues happening from the camera to the DVR. Basically

using process of illumination is the name of the game for troubleshooting.

Try plugging the camera directly into the DVR so you know if it's a bad camera or an issue with the wire. If it's

clear when you connect it to the DVR, than the camera is good. Than, cut your wire in half and put a balun

on the wire and connect a small test monitor to the balun so you can trouble shoot the length of the noise

in the image. Also, which baluns are you using and what length are they rated for? And lastly, make sure your

getting proper voltage to the camera. A long length of wire should be more than 22 gauge cat 5. Why don't

you try using the two greens for positive and the two browns for negative. Than the two blues for video plus

and two oranges or video minus?

Here's a screen shot of the settings.

Here is a daytime shot and a night time shot of one of the cameras.

Today I installed a Dahua 960H dvr for a friend of mine. We installed 4 sony effio-e eyeball cameras with

700tvl's. I have been installed pretty much D1 dvr's lately so I was expecting a slight difference. In the

dvr settings, the main stream goes up to qcif, cif, 2cif, hd1, d1, and 960H. I have the main stream set to 960H.

Now the extra stream has the same options, but when I set it for 960H, our Android tablet, Android cell phone, and my Iphone does not display the image. It just gives us a black screen. If I lower the extra stream to D1, we get

a picture on every device. Any ideas why this happens? And if it's not a supported resolution for mobile devices, than why does the dvr have that setting?

Also, I really wasn't that impressed with the pictures. I was hoping to see a much better picture with a 700tvl

effio e camera on a 960H DVR. We had one 1080p tv connected to the dvr with an HDMI cable and it wasn't

all that impressive. I do realize a 960H image is a smaller picture than a 1080p picture, but I just would

have thought it was going to be noticeably better than the D1's I've been installing. I'll take some screen shots

and post them as soon as I get a chance.

Those are the cameras in my examples. I really like their images. Which NVR are you using?

Agreed, it comes out straighter and cleaner if rigid is used. I was just explaining in case someone did not realize why the guy put a box so far down and than went all the way up. I'm also guessing its covering a large parking lot. And I only like to use seal tight if I have to come off the building with it, not running on the building.

Another great installation at a local school in North Texas. Someone must have found the box of seal-tite and decided that was "good enough"!

I bet if you looked on the roof of that building, you can put a ladder on there and still not reach the top of the brick.

More than likely, the handy box is the highest point of entry into the building and thats why that installer

did what he did. It may look horrible, but I have a feeling there was a reason.

I think he means add the URL of the dvr as a 'trusted site' in IE settings. Just make sure you uncheck the

require http verification box.

Try viewing them through PSS, sounds like an active x issue on that laptop.

Do you see those blurry spots before you put it on YouTube? When I viewed it on YouTube I made sure to up the resolution. And I've seen other hd CCTV videos on YouTube that did not have that

Too bad it's not a female

I'm not that impressed with the video. I saw some blurry spots and nothing really that crisp. It's a wide view

of the area and it's better than analog, but just didn't do it for me. My dahua 720p cameras made me say

wow. At night time, they were not too bad as well, they handled the headlights ok, but again, nothing that

amazing. I guess for the price they are well worth it though. Thank you for sharing.

and so well spoken and informative. I definitely want to purchase your systems! NOT!

Did you run the wires in the ground? Are there any splices in the ground? How far are the runs that you

do not want to dig them up and put them in pipe?

I personally would go with a 3,4, or 5 megapixel camera with low lux and no IR's at all. What will you be

watching this on? Will you be recording it or just watching the stars? Have you thought about setting

up mirrors outside your window and aligning them so you can lay on your bed and look up at the stars?