Comments on: Swann’s Digital Private Eye Is Watching You. Sinner. http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/11/29/swanns-digital-private-eye-is-watching-you-sinner/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:44:12 -0500 hourly 1 By: David W.Scott http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/11/29/swanns-digital-private-eye-is-watching-you-sinner/comment-page-1/#comment-790884 David W.Scott Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:37:25 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/11/29/swanns-digital-private-eye-is-watching-you-sinner/#comment-790884 ITEX in Wellington NZ have tested this device, the documentation and blurb is incorrect, while you can use up to a 1GB SD Memory Card as stated - the system takes up to only 10,000 images with a valid file naming convention then starts to use reserved characters that are incompatible with Windows - this happens at about the 700MB mark, also once the card is full you need to move all images to a PC for archival or delete them because it will not automatically start overwriting files - like a loop tape security system would. This would make the product far more useful - as you would only need to worry about removing the memory card to get the images off after a security incident instead of all the time to make sure the card isnt full! Great idea for a product, and reasonably good images for the price - but the drawbacks mentioned make it somewhat tedious! ITEX in Wellington NZ have tested this device, the documentation and blurb is incorrect, while you can use up to a 1GB SD Memory Card as stated – the system takes up to only 10,000 images with a valid file naming convention then starts to use reserved characters that are incompatible with Windows – this happens at about the 700MB mark, also once the card is full you need to move all images to a PC for archival or delete them because it will not automatically start overwriting files – like a loop tape security system would. This would make the product far more useful – as you would only need to worry about removing the memory card to get the images off after a security incident instead of all the time to make sure the card isnt full!

Great idea for a product, and reasonably good images for the price – but the drawbacks mentioned make it somewhat tedious!

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