| | |  | Domestic Violence | Home » » » SVAT CVP800 Mini Portable DVR Digital Video Recorder with MPEG4 Compression | | | | | | | Description: | | Want to not only monitor your home or business but also record what the camera is viewing? The CVP800 is a miniature portable digital video recorder that provides you with the ability to record camera images on a SD card. Set it to record on motion detection or at a scheduled time. The search and play option and the time and date stamp allow you to find the footage you need with ease. The CVP800 also ensures you do not miss a sound or voice with its audio function. A 512MB card provides up to seven hours and forty minutes of recording time and up to 30 frames per second, and a 128MB card is included. Use the CVP800 with most SVAT wired cameras using the included A/V cables. This small and portable device will perform wherever needed and is quick and easy to set up and to use. Use the included AC adapter for power and included A/V cables to output the images to your TV or computer. | | | Features: | |
• Removable storage (SD card recording. 128 MB SD card included)
• MPEG-4 compression with audio
• Motion detection and scheduled recording options
• Easy to set up and use
• Records at 12, 24 and 30 FPS
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 3.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 13 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
 ( 13 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
The best mini-DVR I found that would loop record.Sep 24, 2008
By OhioBob
I purchased the SVAT CVP800 with the CCDCO camera. After some minor initial bumps, I am very satisfied. When first received, the camera had a defective video cable. It took a while for me to figure out the problem, but once done, SVAT customer service was very responsive and sent a replacement cable immediately. The only significant negative comments that I have are that the CVP800 does not include or offer as an optional accessory a 12VDC plug-in car power supply; also the instruction manual is not very helpful in several areas. On the positive side, the CVP800 is extremely small (easily fits into a shirt pocket), light weight and consumes very little power (under 1.5 watt). It has a powerful feature not found on other similar mini-portable units that I evaluated, specifically, the ability to loop record, i.e., continuously record, writing over the oldest data when it reaches the capacity of the SD card. This allows the unit to record 24 hours a day forever without any attention whatsoever. If an event happens that you are aware of and want to review and save, simply stop the recorder and selectively play back the last minutes/hours recorded, and if you want to, download the data onto your computer to save it or simply pull the SD card with the recorded data, and insert a new one in the CVP800. Overall, I have found this unit to be well designed - user friendly, easy to understand, and highly flexible in both recording and playing back. The only reason I gave the CVP800 a 4-star rating (rather than 5-stars) is the absence of an out-of-the-box way to power the unit in a car other than depending on the internal AA batteries.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Using it in my car for 1+ year...flawlessOct 02, 2008
By Sam
There's no other DVR of it's type that I could find. I have it in my glove box wired to a forward seeing sony lipstick cam and microphone for insurance reasons. I set this thing to record at full frames full fps and to always record when powered. So it only records when I have the key in the ignition and save about 3 hours worth on a 2GB card. Hasn't failed me yet.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Itty bitty filesJan 22, 2009
By Remco Dejong
Seems to work okay but it breaks up the video into ~10 second pieces when recording HQ (708X480?)@12 FPS. This is about an MByte. These files can be stitched together if you want to play them back with software, such as MS Movie Maker, but is a pretty big PIA.
It would be nice to find a file on your SD memory stick that started when you pushed the record button and ended when you pushed stop.
It would also be nice if it could use 12V.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Great idea, poorly executed. Warranty a big problem.Dec 11, 2009
By Bruce A. Ades
"bruceaa3"
Like other reviewers, this seems to be a unique product due to its small size.
However, that is not enough to make up for its shortcomings. The biggest which (related)
is a nearly unusable owner's manual and the requirement to hook up the unit to a television
in order to access the menu. The menus are not intuitive - and confirmations are not obvious.
There are some sub-menus that "seem" to lead to a function, but there is no function.
I could never get the motion detector to work correctly even after emails and phone calls to
SVAT. Dan P eventually told me he did not have an answer to the problem of why the motion detect
would continuously record even though it was in a "manual" and "motion detect" mode at 50% sensitivity.
His idea was to use a different camera (which I did with the same results). However, both cameras
are made with high end Sony chipsets and lenses.
Well, I asked for and got an RMA. Then I read the details provide in the RMA instructions. SVAT has several
places where they remind you that if you miss anything or thepackage is not in conformance, they will hold
your unit until you pay at least $50 plus return shipping. They also write that if in their sole discretion
they determine it is not a product defect, the $50/hour charge applies. I purchased this unit from Amazon for 149.99
and simply cannot take the risk of a charge that is from 30% or more of what I originally paid.
To have such a warranty with so unfavorable terms to the consumer is not, in my opinion, a valid warranty.
These details were never disclosed at the original purchase nor in the User's Guide warranty page. Buyer beware.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Expensive but serves its purposeApr 03, 2007
By rachelleew
"R. Wasniewski"
Once I figured out how to work it, it works well. The directions are really useless. I still haven't really got the motion detection thing figured out, but it does work. The pictures are not the best but they do serve there purpose. I think if I had looked around a little more I could have found something a little better, but all in all it does its job.
See all 13 customer reviews on Amazon.com
| | |
|
