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Review on DVR Slimtec Dual M9, 2 cameras, black by Mateusz Grzesiak  (M ᠌

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Second-rate goods, I wont buy any more.

The front camera shoots no worse, but no better than similar devices in this price category, that is, at low speed and in statics, the numbers of neighboring cars are well read in the recording, but at a speed of 60 or more, the numbers of passing cars can sometimes be read, there are definitely no oncoming ones. But this is the case for everyone, this is not a minus, just a comment so that miracles would not be expected from the camera. But the next moment was important only for me, I needed a constant indication of the clock in mirror mode. And when I saw an advertisement for this device with a clock display on the box, I set out to spend my money on the purchase of this product. But first I asked a question about this through the same Internet resource and received a response from the Slimtec user: "Good afternoon, one of the modes allows you to display the time on the recorder screen without displaying the video image." Well I decided I went shopping. I bought it, read the instructions and did not find anything about the clock display modes. I tried empirically to set such a mode that there would be a mirror and there would be a clock and there was nothing else, but failed. On the one hand, the purchase became meaningless for me, because I needed a recorder with a constant clock display, but there is nothing about this in the instructions, so formally it is impossible to reduce the rating for this. So it’s just a count, the rating didn’t go down, but subjectively -5 stars. I expected that when connected to the mains, the auto recorder would work completely autonomously, that is, I turned on the ignition and that's it: the recorder writes, the mirror reflects, the clock is displayed on the mirror. But it turned out differently, you turn on the ignition and instead of a mirror, a picture from the video, and in order to get a mirror, you need to operate the button on the recorder body. Very uncomfortable. And so that the mirror and the clock would not work at all, if there is such an opportunity, tell me, who knows.

Pros
  • didn't like anything.
Cons
  • location of the rear camera: in the instruction manual on page 10, the rear camera is called external with an IP67 degree of protection, which is usually sufficient for external devices, but on page 15 of the same instruction it is indicated in 2022 text that "the degree of moisture protection is not enough for installation outside" and recommendation to put it inside the car. Yes, no problem, I thought, and went for double-sided adhesive tape to fix the rear camera on the rear window inside the car in the area of ​​​​the rear wiper, but the rear camera bracket does not allow this, with such a mount, the camera does not look out the window, but down. In general, while I use only the front camera. For such a disregard for their own technical documentation already count! tried to enter the car number, which would be displayed on the video. This possibility has been announced but not implemented. Not enough registers to enter the number. Our 2022 numbers consist of 8 or 9 characters, and the DVR only allows you to enter 6.