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AverMedia can then also say that GeoVision has stolen their technology, they bigger and older then GeoVision. Of course you will always learn from each other but to write in an email that ALL other brands are copying the technology from GeoVision is a little arrogant and backstabbing from GV in my opinion. Each company has developed their cards on existing technology, GV too... you can see that also as stealing... nobody build from scratch anymore! Bet that you will find some NUUO or AverMedia cards in the labs of GV to check what the competition does... GeoVision is a good brand, that is for sure but to say the best... absolutely not! Think not one card or brand is the best. Each card and brand has their own strong points and that is a personal thing. For me was the frequent bad support and the arrogant attitude of GV the reason to use them not anymore. Don't like to beg for some service. Maybe is the service in the USA better then in Asia... don't know... As interface and system setup varies on purpose and personal taste of our customers, we always let them try out a small setup of 3 brands for a couple of days. Our 2 latest projects, a casino with hotel and a regional airport, both selected for a setup with AverMedia... For cameras we use a very wide range from Samsung to Axis and even some Chinese brands... For the bigger projects we use also some devices that have been designed by ourselves to complete our systems. On this moment we are developing some new software to manage bigger projects even better....

Love the hybrid cards of AverMedia. Easy to build a matrix with thousands of cameras. DVRs can be located in the server room and in the security room you can have the screens and the multi-display control software. AverMedia is for years the marketleader... I am testing now the new NV9000E... and really love it! I do love the interface of NUUO a lot! It is smaller player in the market but has good stuff too... Personal I don't like GeoVision at all, they make good stuff as the card you mentioned but I find their service in Taiwan arrogant. Hard to get some serious information from them and they accused in an email to us that other companies, such as the much bigger AverMedia, stealing their technology... yeh right!! AverMedia has some features that GeoVision still dreaming about... of course GeoVision has also some things that other brands don't have.... each of them have unique things.... but too accuse eachother of piracy is going me too far... then you don't play it fair anymore... with that kind of service we decided as one of the biggest installers in SE-Asia (in several countries) to stop with promoting GeoVision to our customers...

Maybe someone can give me some advice before I gonna buy my first DVR card. I am looking for a PC based DVR system with a good SDK to write my own applications in C. Probably I have to use the better brands. Who has any experience with this and which card do you recommend me... thx

Emailed a few days ago GeoVision in Taiwan to obtain more information who is the authorized dealer in Singapore. These days with all the OEM products on the market and internet, I want to know for sure that I deal with an official dealer and products. The reply what I got back, shocked me! They asked so much details about my company, like my capital and payment method by credit card, that I expected to be scammed by GeoVision itself! That only to check who are the authorized dealers? Emailed also other DVR companies and they replied me very quick a list with their authorized dealers in south-east Asia. So why GeoVision not... I emailed them back that I can not provide to much details about my company, nature of our business, and with a request to give me simply the contact details of their dealers in Singapore. If the dealer in Singapore is safe and reliable (after a small background check of course) we love to do business with them. And of course, still no address as reply but that my contact details are safe... yeh right, that is what each scam artist in Nigeria also email me each week together with 35 million... After 4 times emailed them to ask for one stupid contact.... still no answer... Why are they doing so secret about who is an authorized dealer? What they have to hide? Are they real? Do they want to sell their products???? Think is time to check other cards as Kodicom or AverMedia... In Singapore we have Sim Lim Square, a big shopping mall full with small electronic shops. A real paradise for men toys... Only be carefull with some shops, they try to sell you old CMOS pinhole camera's for 150 US dollars... Or they sell cheap OEM cards from China with labels of the real product and they pretend to be the official dealer or sole distributor and go so on. For that reason I even more careful then anyone else.... Sadly that GeoVision in Taiwan not want to help me to buy a REAL GeoVision... think is time to buy then a cheap copy!!! Have at least try it to buy a real one.... Or does anyone know an official dealer in Singapore for GeoVision... think they will be happy know what happened!

And the story goes on with Geovision. I still don’t see the point why they can't provide me any details who are the official distributor or authorized dealers in Singapore. What is so secret about it? And how can I harm them if I know who they are????? Same would if I ask Sony who are their authorized dealers and they ask you first who you are, how much money you make, credit cards and why you need it !?! I can understand why they want to protect their products to be copied but this is far too much. If I really wanted copy their card, then I simply just buy one from the internet from a recognized dealer... without contacting them ever! Can even use any official company to buy one directly from them... so easy it is! There are other methods to fight against Chinese copy cats instead of treating each customer as a potentiality pirate!!! In the latest email they surprised me again... they ACCUSSED the other manufacturers to copy their products and '' treating GeoVision as their major competitor ''. Come on, we speak about companies as AverMedia, Kodicom and NUUO.... Geovision also said that they have '' received 10 fake inquiry from their factories ''. If you google around and compare them, Geovisions revenue is good for $31 million, AverMedia $127 million. AverMedia has 1137 employees and Geovision only 230. AverMedia is number 16 in the world, Geovision 31... AverMedia has no manpower and money to develop their own unique products.... hahahaha No Geovision for me... have totally lost my interest and trust... if this is the way to treat people then I will choose an another brand... as an end-user/installer I want some service and respect and not to be treated as an ordinairy criminal!!![/i]

Can understand your frustrations but in my opinion this is not the fault of NUUO. You can easy email or call them to ask or they have any contact in the USA for technical assistance. You can not expect that each manufacturer in the world has a service number or technical assistance in the USA or each country. Especially these days with internet is anyone easy global. Same for someone from Europe or Asia who using American products. They have to call from their countries to the USA too. So why someone from the USA can't pick up the phone and call to Taiwan??? Think more your your security consultant is responsible to help you with your new product. He should know his products that he is recommending or selling to his clients, and therefore the first person to be contacted. Especially with brand new delivered systems! Did he explained to you how everything works and what to do when something happens. Installation of CCTV equipment is not only hangup few cameras but also the instruction to the clients and after services to new users. But that takes much more then one hour!!! Guess that he also don't know how the equipment works else he could help you easily over the phone... FYI I am not related to NUUO but just want to put everything in the right perspective... When you buy tomorrow a TV from Sony and the day after it stops working, who you gonna call, Sony or the salesman who delivered you the TV?[/b][/u]

Have to install temporary in a house security camera's which will be monitored 24 hours. Can't make holes in the walls for just a couple of weeks. For that reason I am thinking to use wireless camera's. Privacy, and for security matters, is it very important that the wireless signals are secured and can't be received by other people. Is their a way to secure the video signal so that we only can receive it and not someone else? thanks in advance...

That would be cool by power line... is it a problem when the power lines are divided on different groups? Can we then still receive in the side room the signal? It is not uncommon that hotels using for each room a seperate power group... Sure something to dig deeper into of it. We have someone monitor the screens 24/24 and will inform us when necessary. CVR is for us not a solution. thanks

Problem is that we do already on this moment, mostly with gaffer tape... and it takes us to much time. Our CCTV system must be very mobile as we move each 2 days to a new location. We can't use any external experts as our work is high confidential to protect the safety of our clients. We using now an analog wired system, works great but takes hours to build up and to many wires. It's hard to hide cameras away. With a wireless system I expect to have our system quicker operational and to hide the cams, it will benefit the safety of our clients a lot! Of course all transmissions have to be scrambled or secured to maintain the safety. That is my biggest concern. Can't accept if someone else can tap in and see what we know or doing... So any help is more then welcome...