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I purchased this from Costco for a runt less than $500 to replace a Q-See DVR unit (Q-See QSD2304L 4 Channel H.264 Pentaplex Network DVR with (CIF) Realtime Recording per Channel) that produced blurry, pixelated images.
I was a minute stunned purchasing this unit due to its cheap lift imprint and little-known impress name however after a couple hours tinkering around with the DVR, I was impressed with its easy-to-use interface and grand image quality throughput. Network setup is easy and the remote interface is very simple although great of the core menu options available on the DVR are not accessible through remote operation (one downside) . Remote playback is uninteresting (even on our broadband line) and not the ideal design to playback video, especially if you need to review more than a day's worth of recordings. The included USB mouse feels cheap although I'm overjoyed it's at least an optical mouse and not the cheap mouseball-type that Dell gives you with their PCs unless you pay to upgrade. On occasion, the mouse cursor will jump around the shroud like it has a mind of its occupy but I derive that it's easier to unbiased exhaust the keypad instead of the mouse anyway.
Videos are searchable by event or time/date mark. The DVR includes a built-in speaker for buzzer/alarm events such as video loss or motion detection although both alarms can be disabled within the DVR menu options if you'd rather not deal with the high-pitch terror. Motion detection works well and I haven't advance across any issues with it in the three weeks I've had this DVR.
The included cameras are CMOS and are kindly for mid-level security applications. For night-vision, I would definitely believe upgrading these cameras to more expensive CCD cameras. The bundle came with cables and the principal power adapters so for most applications, you won't need to go out and grasp additional parts.
The buttons on the front panel could be positioned a runt better (it would have been suitable to have the Enter key placed next to the Menu/Back key rather than having to jump attend and forth across the keypad during initial setup) . Our DVR came with a 250GB hard drive preinstalled so it's definitely an added bonus.
I would rob this item again given the ticket although I would have liked to behold more menu options during remote operation and better mouse control.
















