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(More customer reviews)This is pricey, but compared to other products in this category it is not that bad. The DVR is the expensive part. I have to say that the DVR is feature-rich. Everything was plug-and-play. The mounting brackets for the cameras are top-notch. I was worried the wires would not be long enough for me to put cameras at each end of my house and still hook it up to the TV, but I had plenty of wire.
My two complaints are (1) the remote control sometimes has problems. Thankfully, I do not use the remote very often. What it does is sometimes activates the controls of a nearby button. For example, pressing play will sometimes make the video fast forward instead. It seems to be ok if you press the buttons slowly and hard, but you shouldn't have to do that. (2) This isn't specific to this item, but just a word of caution that I put some of the cameras indoors, looking outside through a window. At night, the infrared lights come on and reflect off the window so that there is no picture. Any IR light will reflect off glass, so the manufacturer is not to blame. However, I wish there were a way to turn off the IR lights. Instead I put electrical tape over the lights, and it works fine (with no IR of course). So you need to put the cameras outside, or cover the IR lights, or just not record in the dark.
In daylight the picture is excellent. I have two cameras recording at 20 fps, and two recording at 10 fps. You can split up the total of 60 fps anyway you want among the 4 cameras. Even though it records up to 60 fps, the real-time video is better than 20 fps in all cameras.
I have my settings set to the highest quality video, recording day and night, and I get about a week of history before it starts writing over the oldest video. Not bad!
Edit after owning it for a few months:
I should lower the rating to three stars. The main reason is that the device will sometimes randomly stop recording. The fix is easy, however, just turn it off and back on. The other thing is that the DVR is also pretty loud (just an annoyance).
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