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Thank you for your updates horseflesh. This thread is ancient but still very useful! Like others, I started by seeing the Night Owl system at Costco and was wondering if it is any good. Any updates on your Hikvision system? What were your components? Are you still happy with it? Thanks! The new 1080P Night owls - Once you adjust the colors (contrast, saturation, etc.) for the installation location that are really decent daytime and dusk / dawn cameras. They stay in color mode for very low light. However, at night that have big problems with environment issues. If anything is too close it as way over-lit and washed out. The details are can be great if viewing a side yard or deck at night where noth is too close or too far but and plants turn that area into a blurry mess. It is almost as bad the the crappy cameras that came installed on the house. My old Lorex 720P cameras have much better night vision. I can point it at the street and have clear details unlike the Night Owl 1080P cameras. They have a nice 120 degree field of view unlike many security cameras and pretty good vertical coverage so you can cover a lot more angles with less cameras. The do not handle contrast very well. I really have to heavily adjust any southward facing cameras. Each has a 60 foot cord which eases the power requirements. I have rambler so I can just string them across the roof and downward. The plugs are rather big so you will need some way to patch where you enter the home. The swing upward and are much sorter so unlike all other Costco offering they could be mount on a beam under you eaves and give you a 360 degree coverage. PS - Arlo is junk. They have horrible quality video.