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Customer Review
Kent
3.0
Poor video compression - 64gb only records about 7 hoursReviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020
I was real happy when this arrived. I like the form factor as it is relatively small, nice construction, and the layout well thought out. I got this set up with the default settings - front and back camera activated with 1080p video and 3 minute clips. I put in a 64gb micro sd card. I went out some errands and low and behold 30 minutes later, I saw a car veer across the highway and up an embankment, flipped over and came to a stop - at about 70mph. Quite a scene and the first time I saw such a crazy accident. I remembered a few minutes later that I had this all captured on video and was excited to go review it when I got home and hopefully track down the guy and show him the video (I saw that he was OK but didn't stop). By the time I went home it was 8 hours later. I went home and took out the card and put it into my computer. Opening up the card I was mortified and extremely upset that the video clip was missing because it got overwritten. Turns out that the 64gb card only holds about 7 hours of video. Each 3 minute clip is 279mb (and there are 2 per time period because it's front and back recording). The compression codec that is used is allowing files to be huge for what it is. In addition, at 1080p with this camera (especially with the low compression), you can't read any license plates even if the front of my car is only 10 ft away from the next car. So if you get in an accident or you are trying to find out who hit you when parked, it will be a no go - the police won't be able to read the plates and it won't hold up in any court. So now I'm left looking for another camera - probably a 4k resolution (and of course with that the files will probably be huge).... So disappointed that this didn't work out!
