Re: Digital Watchdog VMAXFLEX - (Why its discontinued)

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 12:52:12 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> "mleuck" <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:0fd8a417-0b4e-4488-96d1-335d5165946b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 5:15:16 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> >> I knew it was discontinued, but it such a decent unit for the price
>> >> that
>> >> I
>> >> was still buying them for new installations.  That might not have been
>> >> such
>> >> a great idea.  I was told today they were not discontinued to make way
>> >> for
>> >> the new improved (and usually more expensive) model as companies are
>> >> wont
>> >> to
>> >> do, but because they can't get the parts to keep building them.  This
>> >> means
>> >> when customers units are due for a rebuild in several years they will
>> >> most
>> >> likely HAVE TO be replaced instead of rebuilt.
>> >
>> > I don't agree with that Bob, DVR's in general have gone way down in
>> > price
>> > over the last 10-15 years and even some of the cheapest crap has quite
>> > a
>> > bit of technology included. They are these days nothing more than a PC
>> > with a cheap multi input video card. And like a desktop PC it easier to
>> > junk the old stuff and replace it with something new which will likely
>> > be
>> > twice as good at half the cost. That Digital Watchdog looks like a nice
>> > unit but has nothing I haven't seen on other units.
>> >
>> > I have several DVR's laying around that went for several thousand
>> > dollars
>> > when new 10 years ago now I'm about to toss em because they are almost
>> > worthless. That's why a lot of big names are no longer in the biz. In
>> > my
>> > opinion the value is in the remote software more than the DVR
>>
>>
>> Actually I have been using them as replacements for other DVRs, so I
>> don't
>> disagree with your basic premise.  I just like to think things are
>> repairable.  The customers do to even if they decided to replace and
>> upgrade
>> instead.
>>
>>
>>
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>
> We have people going from door to door in commercial areas selling CCTV
> installations. After I had given one of my customers a quote for a system,
> one of these CCTV people walked in off the street and sold him four fixed
> lens eyeball outdoor cameras and a DVR for $2000.00. ( I quoted $4K ) It
> worked for a few years and one day my customer said the DVR wasn't
> recording anymore .... could I take a look at it. The DVR had absolutely
> no markings on it at all. No serial number, No UL, No Name .... NADA. Not
> even inside.
>
> It was simply made to be throw-away type equipment. Probably worth a few
> hundred dollars including the cameras.


I run into that fairly often.  A DVR with no way to identify it.



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Bob La Londe
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Fishing Arizona and the Colorado River
www.YumaBassMan.com
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