It's a good buy for the money. Don't expect to be able to see clear faces in parking lots at fifty feet...think more of "over the garage door."
It doesn't handle additional light sources in "night" mode as well as I would like, but it get's the job done if I want to know who's knocking on my door, creeping down the side of my house, or which one of the neighbor's dogs are trying to tear into my trash cans again.
Time stamp, autocycle, and alert notification when connection is severed is a plus.
"System Set Up"
2009-07-12
- Reviewed By User: A3A52Z7UDFNXMK
Very pleased with the system so far.Checking the "System Set Up ", it looks as if there's an option to set all four cameras to switch at what ever time interval you want.However, after setting the time intervals, I can not get the images to change so I can see each camera separately at the prefered time intervals.Or maybe this is not even an option. Can anybody tell me weather they have been able to have the cameras switch automaticaly?
"The ultiamte detailed review !!!!!!!!!!"
2009-05-17
- Reviewed By User: AI3HWNGZXG3ND
This is the ultimate security system for the price. There is so much better out there but if your a simple person looking for DECENT picture quality then its for you. It is very high speen meaning whats on the screen is happening at that exact moment. No lagging images. I am a simple man in a small house 2 bedroom 1 bath so I had plenty of cables. Wanted to run the wires under the house but fear of spiders was to great and was forced to run wires along the edge of house. Put 2 cams on front door. One for face and one to see the back of the person incase something is bein held behind there back if you follow me. One on the back door and one on the drive way. The entrance cams work good in pitch black but the cam for the driveway not so. I can barley see my black car thats 25 ft away. I can only see the rims so will have to get a motion sensor light.In the daylight I can see perfectly the whole driveway. The infa red is ok and I am pleased. Here is a detailed list of negatives and positives about this system
Negatives -Infa red only works to a couple feet! -Color quality is poor. Its not like looking in th the computer screen your looking at now. Its color but VERY DULL. Only shows brights -Remote is cheap but works fine. GREAT- I wanted to save money and did not want anything from outer space but maybee not for you -The mounts work great but could be better designed. Anyone can use it and anyone with a BRAIN will have no problem. -Running wires. Everone hates running wires.... but the WIRELESS system I had before was 100 dollars cheaper and could not get a clear image NO matter where i put the reciver so wires are a NESSASARY EVIL for decent picture quality.
POSITIVES -QUAD image on screen. Un beatable to see all 4 cameras at once. - plenty of wire for a SMALL country style house. -Dropped cameras during instalation and they took the beating well. -Easy to set up time and date on screen and reciver to TV -Great packaging. Arrived perfectly safe and sound. -No lagging images. - Affordable for simple people who dont need a terminator system. People who just want to see whos at the door or that there door is closed and secure if they hear a noise in the house.
Read other peoples reviews if you havent. I did and they said to dry run system. Great advise. I knew when I mounted a cam that that was exactly where i wanted it to be. Test before drilling and hanging anything.. Recomend testing at night because during the day all cams will have perfect image but at night maybee not.
4 stars only because I wantted intense color quality. Order it! Its a tool and does its job well but you will see what I mean. YOU WILL BE HAPPY but will wish it had a little better color quality. Its not the same images you see with your eyes. Its like looking through plastic. Slightly off but still color.
"Great for the price"
2009-05-04
- Reviewed By User: A3VQTERADE3OXM
I have researched different systems for my security needs and the SVAT CVQ1000 is an excellent buy for the cost. Yes the IR is lacking, but with auxiliary IR lighting this short coming was corrected. The very small nature of the cameras at first made me wonder if this system would not be very clear, but I was quickly amazed at the clarity of the images. And with the size of the cameras, hiding them is a breeze. I have had the system hit with some heavy Texas down pours without a hitch. I do not mind only being able to record all cameras in the four split screen mode. My only complaint is the remote is like a child's clicker toy, a bit fragile. I did purchase one more system for a panoramic 360 degree overlapping view of my land around my home.
"Good Buy"
2009-04-11
- Reviewed By User: A156253ZST9R1W
Great Product. Easy to Install. Replaced a 5 year old system with the new system.
"not please with this system"
2008-12-12
- Reviewed By User: A45LNVQHKPAQV
There is two reasons why i am not pleased (1)one of the cameras does not work and (2) night vision is not clear, you can not see any thing beyond three feet.That is why i am giving this 2 stars.
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