Security DVR Advice Needed

Because they are expensive.

They are less expensive but still too expensive. You need Internet Explorer to view the demos on my site. It also requires you to accept the Active X install.

what do you do to make them crash?

Connect to them via the network and then .... Playback ... crash most of the time. When I say crash, means Locks up, have to manually reboot the DVR.

I agree with everything you say but just add a few things about PC based dvr's. We started out selling only PC based dvr's. We went thru a lot of them. A lot of crashes, we had one catch fire at the customers site. We have tested so many for so many years I can tell a good one by just looking at the picture quality. Stay away from Maxtor HD's AMD cpu's cheap motherboards, and cheap video cards. In my opinion P4's are the best along with western digital HD's. We used AMD's for a while but no matter how many software changes and upgrades we could not get past that persistent picture flickering that was caused by the AMD cpu. Maxtor HD's lasted about a year before they went bad. This costs us money to replace because of labor. Since we have been using Western Digital's not one has been returned. The good thing about PC based I that you can upgrade them and at the rate things are changing the way to go is PC based. We just started selling Embedded a few months ago and it's going pretty good, it's Linux based. And the one who are buying them is like you said, people who are not pc literate. We don't use Geovision but in all my years of doing this I have to say that I have nothing bad to say about Geovision systems. We use our own system Korean based hardware. I get about 5 emails a day from upstart companies wanting me to sell there product, most are crap.

Western Digital HD's, Intel "Seattle" MB's, Dual Xeon Chipset, Linux OS, ATI Video Cards... Rock solid systems.

As for "Maxtor". I've noticed their quality has actually improved since they acquired Quantum but I still lean towards WD...

That's bad or incompatible software.

yeap sorry was replying on how to make them crash .. your right, it is software related.

Try this out

checked out he nubix, looks good. what about the orbix? have you tried those? 6o fps istead of 120. still not too bad though. are they made by avtech too? are they triplex too? not alot of info on website.

DUH, I found the info on the orbix. purchased the Nubix, hope you haven't steered me wrong, Rory dude. ;) Nuby specs looks like a real good unit. thanks

yeah its a great unit for the price .. i mean you can get it slightly cheaper in wholesale, but thats the easiest route, the way you went. .... who's rory :-)