Originally posted by bosley
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It is safer to go with the majors... your Panasonic, Sanyo, American Dynamics, Bosch, GE Security and few others. They know that they can face a legal challenge which will diminish their position in the market.
Your second and third tier manufacturers do them for a simple reason... to find out where their DVRs end up... geographically it is important for them to know this piece of information, so that they can concentrate on areas that sell more.
We worked with few of such manufacturers few years ago.. Right from the beginning we realized what they were doing and confronted them directly... They gave us every excuse under the sun and some could not disable the feature because some of the DVRs were embedded... In short, we dropped them for good and never looked back.
Working with major manufacturers not only guarantees that none of such nonsense occur, but also the support and the warranty, which others can not provide..
What type of DVR are you looking for? PC based or embedded? How many channels to record and how much internal storage?
I personally prefer embedded systems - all the system software and the applications reside on the flash memory.. and the hard drives are used only to store video... very easy to manage and not susceptible to any virus attacks nor require any typical OS based updates...
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