Rating: - Works, image quality not great, consider other brands
I've had this unit for just about a week now and I'm already preparing to send it back. Whenever I hook a camera up to this unit and connect the video output to a monitor, the image quality is pixelated quite heavily to the point where it's impossible to distinguish faces from 10 feet away in broad daylight (using Q-See's own line of cameras such as the vandal-proof dome cam and the outdoor camera with the heater installed). Hooking the cameras up directly to a TV (bypassing this DVR unit) gives gives much better and clearer results.
Given the price, I would have loved to keep this ... Read More
Rating: - Solid 4 channel DVR
This is the latest 2008 model from Q-see. I have had this unit for a month, and it is the newest edition h.264 DVR, Meaning that the compression method is most effecient compared to the old MPEG4 codec. The embedded IE viewer is excellent and feature rich, you can access the device outside your office and review old video, and even change settings of the device.
You can actually watch, record and review at the same time.
I installed a 500GB hard drive and it lasts one month at its highest quality settings, and one year at its lowest quality.
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