CIB J960H16N 960H HDMI High Resolution 16 CH Network Security Surveillance DVR No HDD Included

I am very happy with this unit. I've used a few of these over the years and this is the best of the bunch. My first unit by another vendor had a really bad picture and recording system. It was an entry level unit so you get what you pay for. I then went the route of making a DVR PC to handle all of my security cams. It worked pretty good for a year or so but had some issues and having to maintain a PC just for this was a bit of a pain. So I decided to try this unit... I am so glad I did. No more Windows updates, system crashes, AV scans, excessive power usage, etc. I popped a couple 2 TB low power hard drives in that I had in the back room, the system formatted them and I was up and running in minutes. Right off, I was impressed with the picture clarity! The modes for viewing work flawless also. The HDMI and VGA outputs work well together too. The audio is a plus if you have some microphones.

It was a fair DVR, everything worked for 10 months, then it started rebooting every hour or so. Tech support was great and offered to repair the DVR but I had to pay for shipping. Not willing to pay the $50 bucks to sent it back and I'm not crazy about having a repaired unit either. So I'm off to find a non-CIB replacement 16ch DVR. I also have the 9ch unit running for the last 6 months, so far so good on that one.

One star is it still is not functioning correctly. I purchased this at the end of May. And due to my health have not had an opportunity to get this set up till just a few weeks ago. I was using the cameras off my old PC-based DVR system. Could not get the aspect ratio to record/display correctly. The pictures were all stretched out horizontally. Since I was using old cameras I purchased two new cameras that were 960 H to see if it would make the aspect ratio correct. The aspect ratio still is not correct. Over the last few weeks I've been emailing Tech Support back-and-forth and I've been unable to solve this problem. I just emailed them today about the new cameras I purchased and how to get the aspect ratio correct. I am medically disabled and limited to the amount of energy I can put towards getting this to work.Updated September 30. I was finally able to solve the aspect ratio problem. There was a setting on the monitor to fill to aspect ratio or fill to screen. Fill to screen was the de fault choice. Add a photo of the screen shot for the setting of aspect ratio. Took me a long time to find this but I finally did get it to work. A couple more things to check out that I emailed Tech Support about that I haven't had time to try what they said. But making Address so will change it from one star to 3.I would've expected tech-support to suggest I look at the monitor settings to solve the problem that's why I only gave them three stars. I've never had to change any of this type of setting before when attaching the monitor two different computers as a second monitor. So I learned something new!!

I've only had it for a few weeks so far, but with a WD Purple 2TB installed, I love it. It was a great deal for the price. In the past I have been building my own DVR PCs and I have to say, the quality of this unit surpasses my expectations. Clear picture, easy to use interface, and plenty of options availible.

I had this DRV for two months and now it's dead. The picture resolution was really good and it allows me to customized the settings on each camera regardless of what brand of camera that I had. Too bad it did after two months.

was in a pinch so I bought this and I am still using it one of the best un researched buys that I have ever made and is still after three plus months this product is still working without a problem thank you !! thank you !! thank you !!

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