{"id":4242,"date":"2011-07-07T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T11:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2013-01-20T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T11:31:24","slug":"vehicle-black-box-video-registrator-do-not-buy-dod-tec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/2011-07-vehicle-black-box-video-registrator-do-not-buy-dod-tec\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle black box – video registrator – DO NOT BUY DOD-TEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is intentionally written in English, so Google and other web search systems will index it and people planing to buy cameras (car black boxes) from http:\/\/dod-tec.com<\/a>\/ would know the truth. I contacted "DOD-TEC" several times, but they could not help me (or did not wanted) and pretended they do not understand me. So I am making this public. Maybe this way I can get some positive results.<\/p>\n

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I have some issues with GS600 GPS logger & vehicle recorder<\/strong> I would like to solve.<\/p>\n

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  1. Small video files are not created. If I start recording and power off black box after 30s or so. Video file size in SDcard is 0Mb.<\/li>\n
  2. GPS logs  in \\GPSLog in SD card is not always created. Especially at the beginning of recording, but other log files in DCIM\\INFO\\ show that info from GPS was present.<\/li>\n
  3. Some files (last file before turning power off) are corrupted and can't be played. After 1 min of recording and ejecting SD card (car accident imitation) I got 67Mb file, which is corrupted. You can find this file here<\/a>. None of my video players were able to play this file.<\/li>\n
  4. Because of company policy (and probably lack of good programmers) it is impossible to upgrade firmware!<\/li>\n
  5. After unsuccessful try running included video software I was told that it works only in WindowsXP. What are you thinking in DOD-TEC? Are you living in stone age? WindowsXP is event not supported by MicroSoft anymore. But, after I tried running this player on WinXP, got error about missing MSVCP71.dll file.<\/li>\n
  6. I did not tested this recorder a lot, but I had few times, when I saw orange and blue LED's flashing together. There were no video recorded. I did not pressed anything, and even SD card was not full.<\/li>\n
  7. Video is 1080p, but you should downscale to 720p to get good quality.<\/li>\n
  8. Using at night time is useless – video is grainy and black! See video<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Heats up after couple of minutes of using. Might be unsafe to use!<\/li>\n
  10. Auto Power Off (in 5 min) – is not working. When in recording mode, after I switch off power, it immediately powers off. It does not wait 5 minutes as I set.<\/li>\n
  11. Support is terrible, unless you get somebody who is above monkeys.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Other vehicle black boxes, that can be affected with these issues:<\/p>\n

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    • F500HD – DOD Mini FULL HD 1920*1080P@30fps Portable and Car camcorder<\/li>\n
    • F500LHD – DOD Mini FULL HD 1920*1080P@30fps High resolution digital camera<\/li>\n
    • F770LHD – DOD 720P HD Portable and Car camcorder<\/li>\n
    • F880HD – DOD FULL HD High Definition Video Camcorder<\/li>\n
    • F880LHD – DOD FULL HD High Definition Video Camcorder<\/li>\n
    • GS300 – DOD GS300 HIGH HD Portable and Car camcorder<\/li>\n
    • GS600 – GS600 GPS logger & vehicle recorder<\/li>\n
    • GSE520 – DOD GSE520 Car Black Box<\/li>\n
    • GSE550 – DOD GSE550 GPS logger & vehicle recorder<\/li>\n
    • GSE580 – DOD GSE580 GPS Professional Car Black Box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This post is intentionally written in English, so Google and other web search systems will index it and people planing to buy cameras (car black boxes) from http:\/\/dod-tec.com\/ would know the truth. I contacted "DOD-TEC" several times, but they could not help me (or did not wanted) and pretended they do not understand me. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,19,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-time-lapse","category-uzrasai","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2rU5c-16q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukse.lt\/uzrasai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}