Re: Digital Watchdog VMAXFLEX - (Why its discontinued)

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 =
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> was still buying them for new installations.  That might not have been su=
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> a great idea.  I was told today they were not discontinued to make way fo=
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> the new improved (and usually more expensive) model as companies are wont=
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> do, but because they can't get the parts to keep building them.  This mea=
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> when customers units are due for a rebuild in several years they will mos=
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> 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 o=
ver 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 o=
ld stuff and replace it with something new which will likely be twice as go=
od at half the cost. That Digital Watchdog looks like a nice unit but has n=
othing I haven't seen on other units.

I have several DVR's laying around that went for several thousand dollars w=
hen new 10 years ago now I'm about to toss em because they are almost worth=
less. 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