Review on 🕵️ Defender STEALTH1 Covert MPEG4 DVR Recording System: Motion Sensor with Hidden Color Pinhole Surveillance Camera by Kevin Singh

Whether you are happy with it or not depends on your expectations. I guess if you're from the old-school tech world, that's fine; but for me coming from the modern digital world, I found some aspects unsatisfactory and would like to know about it sooner. Don't let the use of an SD card fool you. At its core, this is old-school technology. The CCD is 640 x 480 resolution, not high resolution, and in low light it shows the characteristic old-school CCD noise artifacts. There's no built-in display, instead you set it up (and view it if you want) by plugging in an old-school video cable (no HDMI here) and sending an NTSC or PAL signal down the cable. Configuration is via 5 small buttons on the back and takes you back to the days of setting up VCRs or similar consumer electronics in the early 80's - sparse display, button presses in a non-obvious way to get things working. The biggest problem with this layout is that when you install the box you have to somehow run a video cable from the box to the TV so you can see the area you want to see. This might not be a problem if you plan on constantly plugging it into your TV and running the cable through the wall or whatever, but it's a big problem if, like me, you plan to use it primarily as a recorder and view the footage . the material is only needed in the (hopefully unlikely) event of an incident. Another disturbing aspect of this old-school technology, which is crudely screwed to today's technology, is that I have no reason to believe that writing to the SD card is done by code written by someone in any way who is familiar with the subject. What you want in this scenario is to use an extremely thorough file system that will ensure that under no circumstances will the file system and files ever be corrupted (even if the bad guys cut power to the device as soon as they see it). This device doesn't seem to promise anything like that - the manual specifically warns about how you can damage the SD card if you do things out of order, such as: B. Turning off the power supply before telling you to stop recording. You mean WTF? The most likely reaction to device detection is a power outage, and you're telling me that in that case all bets are off and a record might be useless? for 2013 this is a disappointment. Does what it says on the tin, old fashioned stuff, great; but his claims of being in the computer age are just claims. And one last thing to note is that the box is larger than it looks, specifically a little deeper than it appears in the photos, and the mounting system adds about two inches to its depth. It will not mount flush with a wall! The mounting bracket is externally convenient - you can slightly tilt the camera. However, it is only tightened by turning the knob as hard as possible and I find it will wear out on its own and need to be re-tightened every few months. I wish there was a slightly stronger mount included - it always seems to be something device manufacturers skimp on.