Damn, my GS9000 mic like a condensor mic man compared to the GT680W and your DR500GW

in the 2nd video you can hear me and my friend engaging in a conversation and also trying to tune the car

oh btw...has anyone tried using these dvrs powered by in car handphone chargers? can work ah?

ive got a dual socket charger... one socket pushes 1A n the other is 2.1A... can it work? coz ill need to power the camera as well as my phone at the same time

How come u guys dont use the type that clip onto the rear mirror?

This is what I'm using
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2481996/all

1080p , also makes your car mirror widescreen so u can see 2-3 lanes at once (but takes a little getting used to)

Any car DVr that you guys can recommend for budget 500-1k?

Or either get the 12v socket extension from Brothers or Carrefour or something. Baru RM5-15 for one cucuk 1 keluar 3. I'm using that as well
Because most probably the quality is crap
Hoho... You've got so much to choose from.... Can buy 2, one put in front one put behind samore LOL

Because most probably the quality is crap

Lol. Don't want 2 la. If good one below 500 also I ok liao Any to recommend?   

i dont understand, is it that important to have crystal clear quality, as long as you can see the car plate is enough right? unless you are racer and take video of your driving skills, then i understand lah, like those gamer with fraps.

Like when i look at your night video above , even in 1080p i can't see the license plate of the cars that are passing you by. If accident happen like the car cut in and all that you wont be able to capture the plate.

I just got this unit last week from FoxOffer. Ordered on the 12/12/13 and received it on 1/3/14 in Los Angeles. I was hoping for better video quality because of the sensor and chipset but I'm just overly disappointed. The video from this unit is very noisy when you compare it to GT300W, which I also have. GT300W is amazing at night but K100 is just very bad at night. Night video is very noisy and just not sharp. I would consider night video to be useless at this point because you can't see the license plate number clearly unless you're a foot away from the car in front of you.

I'm not sure if it's better but K100 file uses AVC 4.1 profile at 15Mbps. GT300W uses 4.0 profile at 15Mbps. It doesn't seem to have WDR/HDR and the EV adjustment just adds more noise to the footage. Picture on FoxOffer site does show HDR in the menu but it doesn't show up on my unit. K100 is rated at 1Lux min illumination so I know I wasn't getting better image at night when compare to GT300W's 0.3Lux min. But GT300w appears to me to be at least 4X brighter and sharper. The video from K100 just looks like 720P extrapolated to 1080P. It's just not sharp.

The microSD is on top and the slot is very recessed. You pretty much have to take the thing off your mirror to remove the memory card. You'll need a long fingernail for a male to press the memory card that it would eject. You can't really adjust the lens angle much unless you move the mirror to the point where you can't really see behind you. If I aim the lens to get a good front view then I can't see the middle and left side of anything behind me. It's just a very poor design. With so much space on the unit, they should have used standard SD card instead of microSD. That would at least help fix one issue.

The battery on it is either defective or not meant to be used more than 1min. I let it charge overnight and was only able to get max 1min of usage before it turns off. This really doesn't matter much if it's easier to remove the memory card to copy the videos. But because the card is so hard to take out without removing the whole mirror, I have to cut power to the unit and use the USB port to copy the video off it. The USB port should have been moved a bit lower. At the current location The USB is at the top so the USB cable will hit the headliner of your car unless your stock mirror is mounted pretty low. This makes it difficult to unplug the unit to copy the video files off because you have to tilt the whole mirror forward to unplug the cable.

Had I not have the GT300W, I would think that it's borderline acceptable but because I have been using GT300W for over 6 months, K100 is just a big disappointment to me. I was really looking forward to have something more discrete but I will have to keep using GT300W for now until something better comes along.

I will try to upload the video comparing the K100 to GT300W later on.

Just get the GT680W then with GPS module
Yeah, if you say the video I post is considered bad quality, then the ones from the rearview mirror combo type is even worse as the one i posted, is considered one of the better quality dashcams you can get in the market.



on the contrary, if all you want is to record drives, then you don't exactly such high quality anyway.

And I wouldn't want to replace my high quality original rearview mirror with a cheapo one anyway. Original mirrors have anti-glare which i doubt any of these cheap rearview mirror dashcam got.

And whether the camera captures the number plate or not depends on alot of factors, at night it would obviously be harder, just like how you'd try to take a photo at night of a moving car without flash.

Any car DVr that you guys can recommend for budget 500-1k?

i dont understand, is it that important to have crystal clear quality, as long as you can see the car plate is enough right? unless you are racer and take video of your driving skills, then i understand lah, like those gamer with fraps.

Like when i look at your night video above , even in 1080p i can't see the license plate of the cars that are passing you by. If accident happen like the car cut in and all that you wont be able to capture the plate.

now there's a bit of contradiction already

if you had bolded the 2nd part of the first sentence you wouldn't have to nitpick like that la. Im just asking why you need to have clear quality when the most important thing is the license plate. No?

Uhhh.... you have to have clear image quality in order to see license plate

hopefully it arrives thia week though I have my doubts especially with the 2 public holidays...

as long as it arrives before the 30th, im good...coz theres a track day on the 30th that I might be joining...decided not to join the one on the 8th bcoz based on feedbacks, ignition.my organized trackdays are like "who let the dogs out"...especially since they dont really limit the number of cars...

no one has experience powering up the dvr with the handphone in car charger before? would like to avoid buying the splitter thing as it adds clutter to the car n I dont really have a good place to mount it.

as for the quality thing, I bought it mainly to record my drives...n yes I need good quality as I wanna see everything clearly....its like watching a movie at home...takkan wanna watch cinema quality? like that means better watch movies on small 14" crt tvs instead of big flat panel tvs