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Customs and taxes put the price up hugely, you will have to pay that to get it into the country. I can sell you Geo cheaply and yes it is the same no matter where you get it.. please Personal message me the price you got from the US and the prices you have seen so far and I will try to help you out, we do not usually sell to end users but if you belong to this forum I can help you out!

Use a Datastore system that works on either firewire or USB or network cable. you can get many raid array box's. to be honest we all should use these, but they do cost a bit, external storage requires a very well ventilated box, here is the the company I use in Australia for mass storage. http://www.datastore.com.au

Ewwwwwwwwww OZSPY!!!!!!!! I live in Australia, I dont think they sell that card anymore, they sell Skyview.....EWWWWWWW very yucky and they also sell COMART.....even more EWWWWWWW. there is nothing ofr $300 other than a cheap Geo unit! You should maybe give me a call, I do not sell to retail, but one of my dealers may be able to help you!

Unless you buy USB grabbers a DVr system will try to use all the resouces it has... Geoviison says you can share the DVr with home use as long as it is not at the same time.. I strongly disagree, like AVCONSULTING said, get a cheap puter and slam a Geo card in it... I hate it he is ALWAYS right!!! No wonder he is retired!

A lot of people forget to load the direct x that comes on the Geo disk...nice of them to put it there to be honest, thats why my motto is BTWRTFM!

I think you answered your own question

You still got me

I hate to be opinionated but there is no such thing as inexpensive and good, you get what you pay for...$3,500 is a good price and should be mid range, the resolution is small at 320x240 though

My input is that nothing is foolproof, however watermarking is setting the standards

It is the Advanced! Standard does not have the RS232 features and I/O

What is it?

Never heard of them!

Pretty cool unit, Geo has more features though.

My rebuttal: Mine was light grey, and a white CD rom, go figure!! Mine does 100FPS Most corner shops do not have a lan, infact most would not have one! I have one that does and yes that is a downfall of embedded systems. I have one that does Geovision sends a video stream, or a picture or an email or a text and on its own motion detection. there is no control room softwer, video streams are instant where emails aren't and snapshots are no where near as accurate as a real automatic stream. Hate to burst your bubble but all those components in the box are actually all asian, it is an Asian DVR as I can see, just rebadged for GE. Bloody best embedded software I have seen though for the price. As mentioned, mine does 100Fps. To make this statement you have not tried Geovision! It is worth writing home about. Sadly! Like I said it is apretty good darn unit, i can see why you like it! I will wait for a price I know dealers buy at $2,200 US I will wait to find out what our buy price is.. bet it costs more in the US as it is easier to drop ship from Asia!

These are the positives of the Store Safe: The system is SOOOOOO easy to use, the manual makes perfect sense. There is a dwell setting for each camera that switches that you can set just by holding a button for a certain amount of time. You can also choose what cameras go to the switching monitor, that is excellent. The system is SOOOO easy to back up, the best I have seen yet! The system records a very large resolution and quite high quality The system can calculate your storage so that when you make changes to the system it will calculate your storage days for you. You can undelete data that you have not yet written over, this is an awesome feature! Gain control is built into the device, You can playback recordings and view live at the same time, however there are some bugs with it. You can set up a cameo switching image box on the main screen. The system automatically turns off camera inputs that are not used The system has looping outputs for each camera, The system can also reverse playback files, It has a CD Burner in it. Searching events when located are very easy to Jog and shuttle and the system has a unique disk activity mapping that allows to see when events happened. It has POTS support. It also can scan active ports for the switcher and ignore the ones not in use. The system runs on 12 Volt power. Live zoom on the main screen is available, however it is only 2x but it is directional. There is no need for a mouse or keyboard and to be honest it is very smart in how it uses the front panel buttons. I will post more info after preliminary tests, I must say it is an excellent unit, but I am still waiting on the price of it, I am thinking it wont be cheap. I imagine my standalone is about half the price but only has 3/4 of the features, I would say this is one of the best featured standalone units I have seen, however it is pretty darn slow at 25fps, even the rep told me he was dissapointed about this, however they do have plans for a new faster one. Overall it looks pretty solid, but as mentioned remote features have not been tested yet and that is where PC's usually are better. I was very dissapointed with the speed as this is a major downfall. P.S. This is what I hae concluded from a very brief look at the unit, I may be wrong on some points but I am sure Rory will correct me!!

Hay!!! Not a bad unit at all... still dont know the pricing they offer yet, I really haven't looked hard at it yet but here are my preliminary tests.. the most important factor is the remote capability and I have not tested this yet. I will start with the negatives.... sory Rory: From opening the box I noticed it is an ugly grey colour but not that this is important, The biggest downfall of the unit is that it only records at a very slow 25FPS, this is a bit slow for 16 cameras in my opinion, mind you I do tend to overkill a little. The system will not automatically frame buffer like Geovision, however it will event buffer to what you set it to. There are only two levels of password so you can not turn of each feature for several users, therefore it is not as flexible in this regard. The system will not allow you to print pictures without a printserver, which is pretty lame but I Imagine all standalones have this problem. The maximum number of relays and outputs is 16 and as far as I can see they can not be stacked for say 30 or so individual relays. One of the big downfalls is that it will not play in standard windows media players as it is not recorded as a straight AVI file. There is no multiplexed option on the second monitor and it must be used as a switching monitor only. The system will only zoom 2x as this is the limit. There is no automatic control room where camera video streams can be sent by an event automatically. I could not get 1 camera to record at 25fps at high resolution, however I guess at lower resolutions you might be able to. Recording of audio is only available if you wish to record at 1Fps this is very lame and infact it will not even record the audio if your using motion detection and it does not detect any video motion. I assume the major disadvantages will come when I test the remote capability, but these are the ones I have found by playing with the unit. I will be fair and now list the positives.

I geta storesafe to play witrh on Friday... bloody buggers won't let me distribute it though, I have to buy it from my competition... now that makes sense....NOT!!!!

There is one called No IP as well ...Geo has this feature already it is called GV Dynamic IP but I think they just use No IP anyhow.

Whats is a link for the remote demo, I would like to see it?

Got me!!!!

Simply put!! PC = Better Features and Cheaper price but less stabilty and more training. Standalone = Lesser features, much more stability and less training but more expensive. Standalone will be the future it is not ready to take over yet, bit like Beta Vs VHS when VHS was new,,,, won't take long though. I give PC's 1 more year unless hardware changes again

And dont have an earth loop!

Not many... Skyview, Winnertech to name a few.. the reason that standalones can do it is that there is no PCI bus.

can't remember but I can remember that it wasn't cheap

Look I knoiw your busy but I am just about to order a winnertech card and some of the others on that list, if your happy to could you email a brief description on each and which to stay clear of, I have tried the Comart it is junk but cheap. The kodicom looks ok but too expensive I cant rememeber allt he cards we have tested but besides my techs do it for me but the latest were everfocus, comart, Sunkwang or JDVR, Tibet Systems, Magic radar and many standalones