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Swann - 8-Channel, 8-Camera Indoor/Outdoor Wired 1080p 1TB DVR Surveillance System - Black/White

Monitor your home's security with this Swann DVR system. Eight day/night cameras let you see clearly everything happening around your home, and a 1TB hard drive holds recordings for up to 10 days. Deploy the HD cameras of this Swann DVR system to see facial and license plate details and to view live footage remotely for peace of mind.

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Excellent!

on May 6, 2015

Posted by: Squeaky

We were looking for a new camera system to replace the one that I "self build" (two 700 TVL cameras and a DVR we bought off the shelf at Frys) and came across this gem. 8 Cameras, 4 1080P and 4 720P and a 1TB DVR is an amazing price. Most systems like this will run well over $1k.

Easy installation, just plug and play. I saw a couple reviews where people said that they couldn't get it installed... I don't know what they were talking about, it's two cables per camera (Video / Power).

Camera quality is amazing. I can read license plates of people using my driveway as a trashcan. And the night vision is very clear and lives up to the 100' of advertised vision (with the help of an outside light).

Posted screenshots are from the SwannView Pro on Windows. Both are from the 1080P cameras. The quality of the capture is alittle degraded due to the way the application pulls the stream over the network.

The PC / Mobile App leaves something to be desired. BUT, that is the same across the board with all these DVR manufactures. We had a Q-See DVR last time, and that software was just as bad. If hook a monitor up to the DVR, it's amazing. The web interface is good, only works on Windows though. The SwannView DVR software will work on Windows / Mac.

We went ahead and bought a 3TB WD Purple drive to upgrade the capacity. Was an easy install and the system prompted on start-up to initialize the drive. The HHD that was in the system (which I was quite surprised) was a 1TB WD Purple drive as well. With them putting such a good quality drive in the unit, tells me that they care about the quality.

Even though the Windows App / Mobile App is a little buggy, I am still giving 5 stars. It was going to be 4 until I upgraded the HHD and saw they put in a good HHD.

Highly Recommended!

My Best Buy number: 0763228215

I would recommend this to a friend!

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