The larger box contained the front camera, power cord and some other mounting hardware. The Thinkware F770 arrived in two different boxes. At the very least, it may provide confirmation later that your brakes were engaged as the glow from the brake lights is visible at night and sometimes even in daylight.
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You can buy just the forward facing camera for both systems to save on costs, but adding the rear camera could provide you with essential views if you’re rear-ended– especially if your locale requires a front license plate. She can be a constant companion or you can toggle a few things here and there on both cameras to shut her up. Somewhat disturbingly, both cameras will also talk to you– and I swear it’s the same woman in both cameras.
They’ll also isolate and protect recordings that are triggered or flagged by their shock sensors so that they are not inadvertently overwritten. They both have proprietary viewer programs, smartphone apps, GPS, shock sensors, WiFi connectivity and the ability to record for prolonged periods when the car is turned off if they are installed with continuous power. The spec sheets for both camera systems show a lot of overlap down their columns. The Thinkware’s rear camera also matches the 2.2 megapixel specs up front, whereas the BlackVue’s rear camera is a downgraded 1.0 megapixel unit that shoots 720 horizontal lines of resolution instead of the 1080 lines of the other 3 camera units. For the extra $50, Thinkware offers a slightly sharper and wider angle main camera (2.2 megapixels with a 140 degree field of view versus 2.0 megapixels with 129 degrees on the BlackVue), something they call “Super Night Vision” and a number of other features of varying usefulness that I’ll explain later. The BlackVue currently sells for about $50 less than the Thinkware. Stepping up my dashcam game into the $300-400 league gets me a two channel setup, meaning cameras scrutinizing the road ahead AND the road behind.
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Thinkware F770 Full HD 2-Channel Dash Cam So I called up my friend Darren, who was willing to subject his BlackVue DR650GW to some head-to-head scrutiny.
Thinkware has been gaining ground against their fellow rival from Korea and their F770 camera drops on the dashcam scene with BlackVue squarely in its sights. Tired of seeing everyone rave about their higher priced camera setups and looking for more reliability, I was curious what a little extra money would buy.īlackVue pretty much owns the Tesla market, a level of devotion that seems well-earned, but another company is trying to fire their slingshot into Goliath and bring him down. The inexpensive cameras I have used for the past few years worked well enough, but memory read/write glitches are unavoidable and they don’t focus very precisely. One of the most popular posts I’ve written was about my “Big Brother on the Cheap” dashcam installation. Do it right and you’ll have at least one camera you can count on to be your witness– but only if you choose wisely. Given the value of our cars, the political climate and the litigious nature of modern society, many Tesla owners have shrugged their shoulders and joined in the camera arms race.
With all those lenses aimed your direction, you’d be wrong to assume you could count on any of them to protect your interests or property, even assuming you could obtain the recording without a subpoena. Estimates vary, but the average American is captured on camera about 100 times a day. They’re in every store, every restaurant, most workplaces, monitoring traffic, stashed on buses and trains, tucked up under your neighbor’s gutters, watching you work out at the gym and lurking in some places you wouldn’t even expect and their sole purpose is to record what you’re doing.
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