Re: Compass Software

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They are generally the Eclipse CCTV reps. Eclipse buys and rebadges OEM
products.  Among a couple other products. But not a security
distributor such as ADI, Silmar, A1, etc. who sell all the big brands,
as well as alarms, etc.

the nubix and the 16 channel Mpeg 4 are the only 2 decent DVRs they
really sell, right now. They still arent considered high end, as they
lack alot of features of DVRs that cost more than double the price in
the same ranges - eg. GE Security DVRs, and others. The PC DVRs they
sell are/were digiflower, cheap gear with alot of issues, they have
moved on now to a linux PC based DVR with less features, but less
issues, will see how it goes.

The nubix is Active-Tek - Korean, the 16 channel Mpeg4 they just
started to sell, is AvTech - Taiwan.  The Active-Tek, the one you have,
actually has more features than the other unit, id consider it a better
quality unit actually.  Problem is Active-Tek doesnt make 8 or 16
channel units yet, but they are apparently in the works. The Active-tek
unit is a decent unit for the price, cause when you step up to the GE 4
channel it costs much more, and ive used the other 4 channels in the
same price range as the Active-tek and they are junk compared to that
unit.

The cameras though are very low quality products. Mass manufactured and
sold by many other companies branding them with their name - OEMs.

They are targeting budget jobs is all. If all the client can afford is
that, then thats what they will have to buy, once they realise there
are higher quality cameras out there, more money, but at least they
were given the choice.  Personally there isnt enough money in those
type of jobs for me, nor most others in the industry, without us
bringing in the cameras from Asia ourselves, and i know all of the
manufacturers so that may be in the near future.

Send r o r y a PM on the forum and he will explain.