Car DVR

• Color Video,
• Color display
• Time and Date
• Format: AVI,
• Speed: 30fps

Saying it's not HD is an understatement. Selecting HD (1280x720) actually lowers the resolution to 640x360 which is lower resolution than the standard 640x480 mode. How so? In 640x480 mode, the dash cam records full frame 4:3 video. The resolution is 640x480. The video quality is OK, but well below mid grade analog or digital video recorders from a decade ago. When you select HD, the video is recorded as letterbox cutting off the top 60 and bottom 60 lines for a total horizontal resolution of 360. The video resolution in HD mode is actually 640x360. The pixels are quadrupled to 1280x720 (640*2 x 360*2). You can clearly see the line doubling in the video playback. Even worse, the HD selection which records in lower resolution takes more file space than the 640x480 mode. What this means is this is just a 640x480 standard def recorder with not such great video quality.

The difference between 640x480 and a true low resolution HD of 1280x720 is the difference between reading a license plate or not.

I'm giving this 1 star because this is blatant false advertising and the price is too high for a cheap standard def dash cam. This thing is going back today. It is not the product advertised.

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Definitely, this is not an HD. Quality of the recordings is poor. You will not be able to see license numbers of cars and/or faces of people who pass by your car; But, considering current limitations of the US market for this type of equipment, it may not be the worst alternative to expensive items of this kind. It does record clips and it is possible to understand what is happening. In other words, .... it is just a poor quality video.

Seller, please correct your description. This is not an HD cam; and we are not in a 99 cent Chineese store.

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This DVR is not intended to use as a "black box". The video quality is not real 1280x720 but interpolated from like 240x135. It is not possible to recognize the car licence plate numbers even if staying right behind the car.

The card slot has also poor quality. The flash card jumps out of the slot when passing the bump.

Could not recommend...

PS. The Polaroid SD card reader was not included in the parcel.

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The right size, the right idea. Unfortunately wrong gizmo.

This product is kind of quirky and can let you down when needed.

Product does not re record over SD card as advertised. Instead freezes up and depletes battery losing all settings including date and time.

Resetting device and manual deletion of SD files is required each time it freezes up. Guess thats why the give you the card reader.

For the asking price for this product, one would be better off paying a little more for a Flip type device with a windshield suction mount.

Overall unreliable product.

This device from its appearance in the photograph is a clone of a device I regrettably purchased from Dealextreme (it shipped out of Hong Kong and now I can't find a way to return it). Design-wise the description is not accurate as one of the other reviewers noted: it is not HD. In fact, if you try to switch it to the higher resolution mode, it will crash the device. I used mine in low-res for 6 weeks, after which it started bricking. After a few days of constantly pushing the reset button because of the bricking, it seized for good, and now won't power on at all.

Those are the bad points the device fails outright in just a few weeks. However, this device also has some GOOD points and if they could just fix the obvious firmware problems, it would probably be a really good purchase for the money. What's neat about it is that it comes on automatically when the car starts, and records convenient video segments. When you turn your car off, it writes the final segment to its SD card and shuts itself off automatically you don't have to mess with it. Video segments are easy to retrieve from the SD card. In these respects, it's very well designed as a plug-and-play-and-forget-about-it device for users of lower technical skill.

Except for the fatal firmware flaws, that is. Watch additional reviews of dash cams on Amazon to see if / when the firmware issues are resolved. And for goodness sake, don't buy one of these unless you're sure the problems have been addressed.