kateoh_99

Hi, actually its the NV6480EXP (PCI-E) card you should be looking at. Stacking 2 of this gives you a total recording fps of 960 in CIF and VGA (with Core2Duo system or enough horse power from your PC).

As far as i can tell, their EB series currently does not support motion masking but word is that the next generation EB will support masking to be released in a few months. For current standalone, the SA series does support masking.

Hi, I'd say the SA6000e PRO (http://www.aver.com/dvr/sa6000e_pro.html) from AVerMedia. We haven't used this model but the SA6416 (16ch) and SA7208H (8ch) both support 30fps in CIF and 10fps in D1 and a ton of features (including motion masking, hybrid, megapixel camera input) at half the price of many branded DVRs out in the market today.

One other card to consider would be the AVermedia NV6480EXP series. 2 of this card stack together will give you 960fps in a properly configured PC (they are PCI-Express cards by itself so you need a mobo that has 2 PCI-X slots) That's if you need that much fps.

Looks like you are comparing apples to oranges here.. A more comparable unit to the GV800 would probably be the NV3000 or NV5000 from AVermedia. With that said, with the cost savings, we've never had much complaints from our clients on some of the shortcomings of the EB1304NETs (no motion grid setting, etc). It basically does it's job for the price and ease of setup (no XP OS to fiddle around with, less headache in terms of tech support on issues not related to the DVR!) For remote playback and control of the unit, you need to connect to the unit (after you set it up properly via DHCP or static IP) via Internet Explorer. Have you checked out the manual for more setup information? Also there are more recent firmware that you probably need to upgrade the unit (this is another thing I like about the unit which is the ability to upgrade the firmware entirely through the Internet). Also the other pluses are the ability to view/record/playback multiple EB1304NETs through the central monitoring software - CM3000. Just my 2cents.....

The new AVerMedia 7.1 i've tested now supports Arecont megapixel and IQEye megapixel cameras.

You should also consider the Avermedia line of embedded systems. The only drawback is that there's no video loopout but as suggested you can easily get video distributors to do the trick. The SA6416 and EB1304NET are both embedded systems and can be connected to the Central station easily and cost effectively as well.

Check out the Avermedia EB1304NET. You can hook up hundreds of these units (4 ch) in the field via the CM3000 software (www.aver.com)

Hm.. it's always tough to decide on a DVR/NVR on your first job. We went through similar decisions but I can recommend the AVerMedia SA6416 if you are looking for an inexpensive, robust standalone embedded systems. The system doesn't come with any HDDs but you can fit up to 4 SATAs in there for a total of over 3Tbs (750Gb each?) With each drive going for around $--@ and the NVR less than ----- (full featured) you have an easier time budgeting for the project than most other DVRs in the market today. Just my 2 cents..

Sajaan, Concur with you on that. The EB1304NET is definitely one of the easiest to use in the market today and we have gone through probably over 50 different brands now (They come and go..). I have to say i'm impressed with the SA6416 from AVerMEdia too. They allow you to put in your own SATA HDDs (3 removable slots!) and the system doesn't crash because the OS is embedded..pretty cool

I don't know why anyone would even bother going with DM DVRs in view that they have these kinds of policy. Charging you an arm and a leg to put in HDDs that can be had for less than 100 bucks retail is just outrageous.

Check out the SA6416 from the AVerMedia line. http://www.aver.com/dvr/eb.html Hybrid with XP embedded (I think it's as secure if not more secured than most Linux kernels out today in the market).

We recently switched to an AVer NV6480Express card due to problems with the GV Combo card performance and quality. Application was for a small corporate office with need for high fps high quality recording. Inherently there are alot more advantages when the manufacturer actually designs their hardware and software in house.

Check out the AVerMedia NV6480Express line. We are currently testing the board and have been able to push the recording resolution to 30fps for each camera at 640x480 (480fps total for the 16 cameras) on the server. Not sure how it will perform over WAN. But on LAN (10mbps network), we are getting close to realtime 29fps in single channel display mode. For best remote viewing, I heard the NV7000H (H.264 hardware compression) is the best among all the NV line. This card also supports 8 to 16 ch audio recording as well

Check out the AVerMedia NV6480Express line. We are currently testing the board and have been able to push the recording resolution to 30fps for each camera at 640x480 (480fps total for the 16 cameras). It's utilizing the PCI-X slot and running on an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor. Very Impressed thus far since CPU is hovering around 50-60% (Remember this is a software compression board).