List Price: $99.99 Price: $78.37 You save: $21.62 (21%)
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Features:
Recording Rate 30 FPS NTSC (Total)
MPEG4 Compression
Record Mode: Motion/Sensor/Schedule/Manual
Software Included for Internet Monitoring / Networking
Editorial Review:
The QSPDVR04 is a PCI Card installed in a PC that will display and record live video from the camera connected to the hard drive in PC. It has 4 channels video input, the maximum display/recording rate is 25 fps under PAL format, and 30 fps under NTSC format shared by 4 cameras. One PC can use 4 cards simultaneously, with 16 channels video input as the maximum number. Total resource is 100 fps under PAL format, and 120 fps under NTSC format.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Only runs with Pentium III (not PII)
I didn't see this on any of the tech-specs before I bought it. I was going to use an older Dell 4700 PII XP system which seemed to fit the basic quoted specs. WRONG! after several hours I eventually got to page 97 of the flakey manual and found this is a PIII only card. Why couldn't this be listed up front?
Its a good deal for the money, no doubt
Ok, I just picked this up recently from amazon and used it with a KPC-EX230HL camera and it works really well. Both that camera and this DVR card are better than expected. Yes, the DVR software is a bit 'basic', but not buggy ... and works out of the box and does all that is needed. It would be nice if the motion sensing logic was adjustable, but it works well and using the mpeg4 format ... the size of the recorded videos are very small ... so it record a lot a not consume so much hard disk. I'm running on... more info
All in all I am pretty pleased
Let me start by saying that I give this a Five Star rating based on performance-for-price; this product is not without its shortcomings. I have an Intel motherboard with an Intel CPU and everything works great for me. I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-Bit. nVidia nForce chipset and nVidia 8800 GTS Graphics. I had lots of blue-screens when I first installed this card, but after updating the nForce drivers from nVidia's website everything has been great. (I have read that AMD users may have more... more info
It works and it's cheap
It works and it's cheap. The card is great. The software is...lacking. It REQUIRES you to be logged on to Windows to record, so there is absolutely no way you can install it as a "Windows Service" on a server machine in the closet (I've even tried running it as a scheduled task and using a "any program as a service" program -- it doesn't work beacause it require a DirectX drawing surface (not available without a screen) to even start up for JUST recording). So you have to basically run XP or Vista as a... more info
