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 Using it in my car for 1+ year...flawless October 2, 2008
Sam (Sunnyvale, CA United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
There's no other DVR of it's type that I could find. I have it in my glove box wired to a forward seeing sony lipstick cam and microphone for insurance reasons. I set this thing to record at full frames full fps and to always record when powered. So it only records when I have the key in the ignition and save about 3 hours worth on a 2GB card. Hasn't failed me yet.
Very nice functions December 8, 2009
F. L. Junior (Brazil)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only con I noticed is it dont accept SDHC cads. But if you manage to buy some 4G or 8G non sdhc cards it works. The porblem is those are very difficult to find (and more expensive and non trustable cards).
As I did notice it seems to be an 2006 model, but lacks nothing it promises, with lots of options, including a grid were you can select wich areas of the screen trigers the recording.But the best are the loop dvr sistem, were it rewrite the card as it got full, and this is a very difficult to find option among all those tiny recorders all arround
Very nice, and came with all cables
 The best mini-DVR I found that would loop record. September 24, 2008
OhioBob
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I purchased the SVAT CVP800 with the CCDCO camera. After some minor initial bumps, I am very satisfied. When first received, the camera had a defective video cable. It took a while for me to figure out the problem, but once done, SVAT customer service was very responsive and sent a replacement cable immediately. The only significant negative comments that I have are that the CVP800 does not include or offer as an optional accessory a 12VDC plug-in car power supply; also the instruction manual is not very helpful in several areas. On the positive side, the CVP800 is extremely small (easily fits into a shirt pocket), light weight and consumes very little power (under 1.5 watt). It has a powerful feature not found on other similar mini-portable units that I evaluated, specifically, the ability to loop record, i.e., continuously record, writing over the oldest data when it reaches the capacity of the SD card. This allows the unit to record 24 hours a day forever without any attention whatsoever. If an event happens that you are aware of and want to review and save, simply stop the recorder and selectively play back the last minutes/hours recorded, and if you want to, download the data onto your computer to save it or simply pull the SD card with the recorded data, and insert a new one in the CVP800. Overall, I have found this unit to be well designed - user friendly, easy to understand, and highly flexible in both recording and playing back. The only reason I gave the CVP800 a 4-star rating (rather than 5-stars) is the absence of an out-of-the-box way to power the unit in a car other than depending on the internal AA batteries.
Expensive but serves its purpose April 3, 2007
rachelleew (Northeast PA, USA)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
Once I figured out how to work it, it works well. The directions are really useless. I still haven't really got the motion detection thing figured out, but it does work. The pictures are not the best but they do serve there purpose. I think if I had looked around a little more I could have found something a little better, but all in all it does its job.
Be Sure to Update Firmware if SDHC Card Not Working October 24, 2009
Michael Morgan (The Last Hometown)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Superb, inexpensive and flexible recorder for a single camera. Worked out of the box using the included 1GB SD card but would not operate at all using the 16GB SDHC card I bought at the same time. Would not boot up or work in any way. Went to [...]and downloaded the June 2009 firmware file. Extracted from zip and transferred to the 1GB card. Placed the card into the CPC800 and went into menu. Selected SD Card and update system. Took 2 seconds. That cured the problem. Now can record for dozens of hours and can loop back around once the 16GB is full without intervention. This gives an essentially perpetual recording capability. Great little unit with many features, including variable resolution and recording quality.
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