Re: MACE DVRs

["Tommy" <tommy at leesecurity dot net>]

I have used some of the mace stuff, not however the any of their DVR's. =
Which camera did you get?

If you call their 800 number, ask for Joe Plum. He has been helpful to me =
in the past.

I am interested in the DVR playback. Is it a decent picture? I have been =
hesitant to try one.
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Bob La Londe wrote:

> I decided to try one.  But a 16 channel one packages with a 20" flat =
screen
> LCD and 16 inexpensive cameras.  One of my distributors was closing them
> out.
>
> It was a breeze to setup.  Took about 5 minutes to have it on my network,
> and not even a minute to set it up with a nonstandard port on my router =
so I
> could access it from home.  Actually a little easier than some of my
> Dedicated Micros systems.  Definitely easier than other cheap DVRs I have
> played with.
>
> Its got some draw backs.  Other than a 160 gig HD I have no idea of its
> specs from any of the documentation.  I can get the resolution from the
> setup menu since its selectable.  Nowhere that I saw did I notice the max
> PPS or anything about its compression ratio.
>
> What I found absolutely appalling is... ITS SIMPLEX!!!   Well, it might =
be
> duplex.  I have not done enough testing to see if it records all images
> regardless of what is displayed, but it will not play back and record at =
the
> same time, and what you see locally is what you see when remote viewing. =
 If
> I change the view on my front desk I can here the unit beep in the back =
room
> as it changes views just like as if I was using the front panel of the
> recorder.
>
> Conclusion:  Cheap?  Yes.  Works?  Yes, but more like a VCR than a DVR.
> Good Specs?  Don't know because it doesn't say.
>
> I have had it up and running with five feeds looped out of my DDM DS2P =
demo
> unit for about a week now.  It has no hiccupped.  I powered it up and =
used
> it.  I also hooked up a couple of the little color IR cameras that came =
with
> it.  They actually do a pretty good job in no light out to about 25 ft.
>
> It might be a solution for a totally indoor retail application for a
> customer who won't pay for the good stuff.
>
> I visited MACE's website to see if I could get any better specs.  No joy
> there either.  In fact they list fewer units on their website than I can =
buy
> from my distributors who stock it.  Interesting.  I dropped them an =
e-mail
> requesting specs, catalog, etc a week or so ago, but so far no response.

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