Cisco Video Surveillance 8000 Series Ip Cameras

We have purchased two of these so far to use primarily as NVRs for a large number of IP cameras on a school campus. Licensing costs aside, Synology Surveillance Station does a really nice job making it easy to set up and scale with the number of cameras you have. We linked two together, making one the primary and the other a secondary target for recordings. Surveillance Station records direct-to-disk, and does a decent job of adjusting camera settings directly using ONVIF. We have about 50+ cameras running at resolutions from 1280x720 up to 2560x1600, some PTZ, some ceiling-mount fisheyes, mostly wide angle fixed, and everything works pretty well. We were even able to use the manual camera configuration to use some uncommon double-lens cameras. With about 26 cameras assigned to each RS422+, we see about 20-25% CPU on each on average during a typical day. We can comfortably handle 32 per unit, and supposedly up to 40 if needed. With x4 6TB drives in each set in SHR-1 (equivalent to RAID5) we have about a month or so of footage retention. The licensing is a little pricey at $50 per camera (unless you buy in bulk from some european IP camera shops...), but it is perpetual and I think worth the expense. Using two of these units, 8 cheap drives from eBay (luckily these do not suffer from the Synology whitelist) and a bunch of camera licenses, for around under $5000 I was able to build and set up a really easy to use and reliable NVR system with plenty of future expandability. 2-3 users are regularly connected on their desktops without issue.

There are lots of free applications for IP Cameras, but if you're serious about IP Surveillance you can't do better than Axis Camera Station, and the best way to acquire the licenses is from B&H.

GREAT FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.

I installed this in my Unifi Dream Machine Pro to record video from surveillance cameras and I does the job, I have always had good luck with Segate enterprise disks.

This is very fast memory with a long record of performance and long life, it works very well in Cameras, Video Cameras and surveillance equipment. I use these in my Laptop for Video, 4K Surveillance cameras.

My IP PTZ cameras love these.

Cameras easy to use and take great pictures. I use them for hunting and for surveillance around my property. I have several cameras.

Worked very well for my 2017 Samsung 8000 series, no problems. Don't forget to order the additional machine screws needed to mount the TV to the bracket (at least for the Samsung)

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We purchased a Samsung UHD 8000 for our newly remodeled fireplace mantle. We went shopping and compare other TVs. It took us a few days to come The Samsung 8000 series. For the price quality and sound and application options no other TVs came close to the 8000 series. We were so pleased that we went out and bought a second Samsung HD TV for our family room. They come with so many additional applications and features we were blown away. We pretty much set on the Samsung products now.

Finally, Sennheiser has come out with an 8000 series figure-8 microphone. They should have released this mic 10 years ago. The figure-8 pattern is fundamental to MS and Blumlein stereo techniques. It’s an extremely useful pattern in general, even though most audio engineers don’t use the pattern often enough. As for this particular microphone, it’s fantastic. Sounds great (just like the other MKH 8000 series mics) with a low end much better than most figure-8 mics. Low noise. Small, light, lots of output. Nice non-reflective finish. This RF mic is not affected by high humidity. I use it in a DMS configuration with a Sennheiser MKH 800 Twin. The 8030 replaces a MKH 800 P48 set to the figure-8 pattern which was previously used in that rig. The 8030 works fine in that application, sounding just as good as the 800 P48. Compared to the 800 P48, the 8030 is slightly noisier and has about 3 dB less output; neither difference is a problem. I own a Neumann KM 120; the MKH 8030 is better. I don’t know how Sennheiser could improve this microphone. It’s an expensive microphone, so I guess they could make it less expensive, right?