I would like to use these with my law enforcement career. How long of continuos recording can I do before Id run out of memory,& would this work well?
1508752
I can only say that it records great and I got about. 2.5Hrs from it and the vision is great and vocal is good if your abort 5ft near. I'll grade the camera glasses a 8 out of a 10.
1508753
15 minute of continously recording before it stops × 8.A total of 2 hrs memory but its HD quality and wide angle is great.The inter changeable lenses are also very good.I don't know if that answered your question Sir.
896423
It depends on how long you wish to save the footage. Generally the hard drive is adequate since once there is not an incident there is no need to save the footage and it can be written over. You can download footage of interest to the through the USB onto a flash drive, etc. The drive space can also be extended using the motion sensor feature in that only if there is motion the footage is recorded. I don't use this feature and the drive can store almost 30 days of footage. The only limitation is when it begins to record over old footage it erases the entire drive and begins again so old footage is lost.
1702259
That shouldn't be a problem. The SD card that comes with recorder is only 4GB. I just bought a 16GB SD card and use the 16GB card instead. It can record up to 2 hours using the highest resolution.
1088319
I had it last as long as 3.5 - 4 hours of continuous recording. And as long as 3+ days using off and on.
2199254
Sorry, but I haven't reached that point yet. But I'm guessing when memory storage has been reached, it won't record any more. I'm still getting more familiar with mine but so far have been very pleased with it. I use my "antique" recorder as a backup.
2242021
With 4 cameras running 24/7, you should be able to record about 25 days' worth of video with 500 GB. Thank you!
515151
I was able to record while doing other things. I am sure it depends on how much ram needed to do the other things. The device works great and well worth the money.
1865547
This all depends on how you record. I'm recording continuously from a pair of DCS-932L cameras at 640x480 "medium quality" MJPEG with Audio at 12-15 frames per second and it seems like my 1TB drive will hold about 8 days of video before it starts overwriting the oldest video. If my cameras supported h.264 encoding rather than MJPEG, it would hold quite a bit more, I believe. The resolution, framerate, and audio all play into how much space the video takes up. If I only had one camera, or was only recording on motion-activation events (rather than continuously), it would probably take over a month before it rolled over. So the short answer is "it depends", but there's my experience.
1967224
I know! the recordings are also in short clips of 30 sec or so. I had to purchase an additional recording device, that I never used because is not as discrete.
1285758
Can I play back? I record and then listen to it for my minutes of the meeting. Does that answer your question? It is for a non-profit group and I keep it as our permanent record though the file size is huge; I want to say around 128 megabytes. It works great. Let me know if you have any more questions.
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It greatly depends on the quality you record shows at. And this can be mixed, even recording by timer. Each show can be at a different quality. I record at the lowest quality and it's been a while, but I think it was 1200 hours or something outrageous. I currently have 370 programs recorded (some very short) and 187 hours left. I would generally not recommend the highest quality recording speeds because the lower and middle are very good quality and higher would just be a waste of disk space. And remember, unlike any other DVR, it is truly unlimited space if you buy a pack of DVD-R's. You can burn recordings to DVD and then delete them from the HDD. Yes, I love these devices, and I own three. It greatly depends on the quality you record shows at. And this can be mixed, even recording by timer. Each show can be at a different quality. I record at the lowest quality and it's been a while, but I think it was 1200 hours or something outrageous. I currently have 370 programs recorded (some very short) and 187 hours left. I would generally not recommend the highest quality recording speeds because the lower and middle are very good quality and higher would just be a waste of disk space. And remember, unlike any other DVR, it is truly unlimited space if you buy a pack of DVD-R's. You... » Read More It greatly depends on the quality you record shows at. And this can be mixed, even recording by timer. Each show can be at a different quality. I record at the lowest quality and it's been a while, but I think it was 1200 hours or something outrageous. I currently have 370 programs recorded (some very short) and 187 hours left. I would generally not recommend the highest quality recording speeds because the lower and middle are very good quality and higher would just be a waste of disk space. And remember, unlike any other DVR, it is truly unlimited space if you buy a pack of DVD-R's. You can burn recordings to DVD and then delete them from the HDD. Yes, I love these devices, and I own three. « Show Less
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The issue is the software Operating system is limited to 2 Gigs per recording session. If you are recording a long video such as a child's play then that's a problem. if stop recording and start another recording session you will be able to fill your card with video. I've rarely recorded continuously for 8 minutes so it's not a problem for me. Also if you reduce the resolution to something less than HD such as VGA you will quadruple your recording minute. Remember if you record a VGA you still have better resloution than DVD.
1999726
I am using Micro SD 32G and set up a recording continue sly over write on SD, works fine for me. I do See the required for more memory so far!
925594
I have been using it for months now and it records per minutes totaling to 60 minutes. Not continuous. You may need more memory.
935658
sorry, i don't have much of an answer. we use our recorder for recording sermons at church. we record for about 45 minutes, and then transpose the recording to a computer. pastor don rice
620846
You get about 2 hr and 5 minutes on the discs. That is the max length at that recording quality. You can record longer, just not at this quality.
744031
I think the quality is very good, also the price. I am a court reporter and I always record everything, so that when I go to transcribe, I can slow things down. But to be honest, with what you are talking about, just recording music, I am guessing you don't have to use the slow mode, or double time, to slow it down, do you? If not, you may just want to get maybe the same brand, but not with the two speeds. Hope that helped!!