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Rough .. reminds me of ... here!

Hi Bruce, you mentioned: "where can i buy quality monitors in uk" Now you are saying you are a specialized manufacturer of cctv lcd monitor? Why would a manufacturer of monitors (from china no less) want to buy monitors in the UK?

Harbor Freight is a .com which is a low cost tool center. They started here many years ago selling tools out of a tractor trailer at local hotels, and then they moved in to a strip plaza. The tools are great for home owners as they do not apply a lot of use to the tools. Commercial tool buyers will be quickly disapointed as the tools do not hold up in the professional world. They do have advantages as you can save $300 buying a hand held hammer jack for only $50.00! If you get a year out of it than you are lucky. You will soon be disapointed by the harbor freight cameras. They are great for daytime, but that is it. Ok my bad see if it was dennies or macdonalds then I would know what it is

If looking for a Camera to cover a harbor freight area, you need to raise the budget, Extreme CCTV cameras will work for that, expect to pay alot though. Sorry but $600 wont even cover a 4 camera home setup properly (retail).

Ouch .. looks VERY high .. what kind of tower is that? Hope they paid good

With the older DVRs they had to be recording or you will see no video over the network, may be the same with the newer models. Covert wouldn't matter, would see those cameras over the network.

I dont use that, never have, I use my own program. http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=9764

In this country they just put a stop to hiring police officers, no more moonlighting for them.

Hi, the advertiser banners at the top of the site is your best place to start.

Hi, those are dealer prices, near abouts, on the Avermedia. Prices removed. Retail would be approx double dealer cost. Thanks for the reviews though.

FYI this thread is 1 year old.

Computer Security and Physical Security are 2 totally different things. I dont see where he has any experience in our side of it. And if thats the case, I dont find it worth even reading one of his articles based on that. IMO.

Never heard of him, but will check out your article.

Nice little DVR .. but it has its CONS and they are pretty major: 1-No masking of motion detection areas 2-Recording settings effect Remote Video There are others but these are the only major issues I see with this DVR. Indoors I can see it would be a great machine, outdoors not so sure. I am getting 2 days only, with a 160GB HDD, D1 HIGH Recording (not even BEST), and 20fps instead of 60. Also on these settings the remote video FPS is still only around 6fps. At BEST D1 it will be approx 1-3 fps. When you go to GOOD D1 it hovers around 10fps, and now check this .. set to 120fps and CIF it is a whopping 36fps average .. basically real time remote video - but the recording is no good at that setting. Motion is set to LOW in my case, which is the lowest. Remote download/playback is next to useless in any of the D1 settings. To make this a DVR worth while for every day out door surveillance, they really need to do at least the following: 1-Seperate the Remote Video Settings from the Recording. 2-Implement a Motion Masking feature. On a GE StoreSafe with a 40GB Drive I used to get like 1 month, but it had motion masking. Remote video was not super fast but was separate from the recording settings, was highest quality, and not extra sluggish like the 1304 is at highest quality. With a 160GB drive in the 1304 with 4 outdoor and IR cameras, Im getting only 2 days. Cant have our cake and eat it too I guess, at the current price of the 1304 that is, but it would be nice. Local Monitor quality and FPS is not effected by the recording settings though. Its Pros are: 1-IR Remote Control 2-Local Monitor Quality is same as from the camera 3-Very Small DVR 4-Affordable 5-Browser software installs easily 6-Free CMS software 7-Quick replies from Manufacturer 8-SDK (though slightly unstable and limited) 9-USB backup (though can be slow, perhaps USB 1.0) 10-VGA or Composite Monitor using switch on outside of case Want to add more cameras later? Just buy a second one and use the free CMS software and setup an remote video screen division that handles both DVRs. Rory

Should be using a 9" CCTV CRT Monitor to focus your cameras.

They caught the guy regardless of the quality of the video. Ive got evidence with even worse quality, and the farther the object from the camera, megapixel or not, the worse the quality will be. Trust, MegaPixel will not be the solution .. it will help some .. but with it come its own problems. PS. Cheap Camera, Dirty also.

Ive used Discountasp.net for several years now, they are great.

thats a commercial also http://www.metacafe.com/watch/27635/hidden_camera_surprise/

Yep it was a hoax, it was a Russian Movie Director testing out the waters before the launch of a movie .. something like that. It was on the news just a few days ago.

Yeah I didnt like Avermedia myself.

Im still ill, will be able to look at this again in a couple weeks when i get back on my feet ... if you havent got it sorted out by then.

Might want to look at the Panasonic instead. tried and proven in the WDR area.

A blower is just something else to overheat and go bad. Never had any issues in our heat without blowers.

only one solution it seems .. use a different brand of DVR card

No there is no way other than to capture the screen using something like CamStudio then save that as AVI.