The product image with the razor-sharp images and the saturation / color fidelity is just about pure Verarsche. Here I feel led me as a customer clearly hoodwinked because the quality of the recordings ranging far (!!!) not reach the eyes Wiper image shown here. I would like to set a photo to it, but unfortunately I had to return the product before I have them get eye cancer. Persons who are more than 5-10 meters, can be seen only as people, for a serious monitoring but this is not suitable. The picture is gray and mushy, is miles away from the level of detail shown. In addition, the screen also is smaller or the cameras compared is greater than on the product image.
The processing of the device, the cable and the camera is very good, there are no complaints. A small spaghetti wires behind the unit when all the cameras are fully connected, but in the end leads only a single S-video cable to the camera. Made a little startled me was the fact that you only have two audio inputs; two cameras so can not be controlled with sound or need to be connected separately (RCA).
However, the cake has the unspeakable local control. Which is very well done, intuitively and without unnecessary clutter, of course, understandable and fast correctable mistake at. I would like to say, but I can not. In absolute opposite and worse: It presents a pott ugly, muddy and incredibly poorly translated menu in the style of a DOS window - with the exception that there could have been at least one sharp image reproduction. The menu items are meaningless or confusing, so you have in the menu "Record" - ie "Record" - switch to playback pre-recorded records. And there you have then most awkward select a recording time by:
1. Use the arrow keys will change in the date field.
2. Ok suppressed.
3. changes in the format 2013-04-01 Use the arrow keys to "3" in 2013.
4. Ok suppressed.
5. In one pops up Menu Use the arrow keys to "5" navigated.
6. Ok suppressed.
7. The whole for each number to be changed repeatedly.
8. Then "Menu" pressed a box to go back.
9. change with the arrow keys in the field for hours.
10. etc. pp.
And this stone-age control runs through the entire product. If I want to make it as awkward as possible, that would have been my inspiration.
Sometimes the system fails completely well: There is a point in the menu "Pan & Zoom". Hey, well, then we zoom times the poor picture just a little on the object of desire (here: an entrance door) zoom and let's see if that's better. Nope. In the Menu you can only adjust bitrate and video codecs. As I stand now, I, poor fool, and so am no wiser than before.
One more thing: With the screen is the system works relatively loud when the screen is off just hums the hard drive. Why is that good?
The night vision I have not tried because I already shocked the day. Also connected to the LAN, I have not the system as slowly imposes me the suspicion that these are imported and too expensive chinaware (Elro bills itself as "importer / wholesaler") and I have no desire to have any backdoors.
Conclusion: Suitable perhaps for a small shop or additions or small rooms, but It Will not the least bit for monitoring the domestic property. And the control / device is hell. Actually, I would have awarded two stars, because it is not so completely useless, but for the deception of the image there is a revenge star deduction. An embarrassing debut for the self-proclaimed "leader in alarm and camera surveillance systems" ...
