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The CHORTAU Mirror Dash Cam is a cutting-edge device featuring a 4.8-inch touchscreen, Full HD 1080P front camera, and a waterproof rear camera. It offers emergency recording, a reverse monitor system with parking guidelines, and is designed for easy installation over your existing rearview mirror.
L**W
Great value for money. Easy to install
Was looking for an inexpensive dash cam and really glad I chose this one. The mirror at first sight looks a bit on the large size, but very quickly get used to it. The big advantage is that it make installation so much easier using a couple of the heavy duty rubber bands supplied with the camera and it is fixed to the existing rear view mirror. Didn't take many minutes to run the power supply cable from the decent adaptor power supply plugged into the cigar light, easy to do if you route it behind the sunvisor and then using the brilliant little blue device supplied to tuck it under the door trim rubber and under the front passenger carpet to the centre dash, Similarly with the rear camera, just run the cable along using the existing rubber door trims to conceal it for most of the way until you get close to the final location. Finding the best position for the rear camera took a bit of experimenting but it helps if you have someone handy to move the camera whilst you watch the image display in the mirror fitting.The menus on the camera are larger and clearer than the small dash cam on my neighbours car, and are easy to set up and follow, We have chosen the option to have “picture in picture” view showing mostly the front camera with a smaller rear cam image in top right quarter, but if & when you download the SD card to view the video on the PC it is saved in two separate folders, one for each camera. Picture quality is really good especially on the front camera. Don't forget to remove the small scratch protector discs of plastic from the lenses of both cameras as I did to start with, improves the quality so much !!Overall really pleased with this dash cam. Very good value for money, especially bearing in mind the rear camera supplied too, and build quality is good. Definitely recommended
M**N
Premium dash cam for low output
Bought this not expecting TOO much however was pleasantly surprised by the build quality and the picture clarity.On the plus side it is easy to install and set up, even the rear view camera was easy to install with a little fettling. The picture quality is very good and even at nighttime it's not bad.Negatives would be that the wiring for the reversing camera function i.e. the lines showing parking space are not that easy to find. Each vehicle will be different however the camera will still work even without that. Also noted that if you have one of those chonky rearview mirror a you may find it difficult to set up the front facing camera to capture the entire road AND be able to see all of the back window at the same time. I think this is because there is no way to decide which side of the rearview you have the camera. A simple function to be able to invert the device would assist.The screen itself in the mirror is quite small but it does not hinder using the mirror even when it's on and it does have a feature to sleep after a short time anyway.I would recommend a good size SD card but it does work very well with recording over itself automatically when disc is full.Overall , for the price point, a good effort and perfectly usable dashcam
S**E
Very good with a few small flaws
I only wanted a reverse camera, and this seemed to be the simplest way of putting one in my Citroen Berlingo.With a lot of this sort of product I find that you can usually see 53 identical versions all marketed under slightly different names, showing that it's simply a badged up off the shelf Chinese knock off of something. Maybe this still is, certainly it's for sale by a LOT of sellers, but I was pleasantly surprised to see everything from the Box, to the literature and even the logo you see when turning the unit on were the same.Pros:1) Instructions were very good, no terrible translations or gibberish.2) Unit seems of good quality, physically3) It fits very well over my existing mirror, and is much larger that it too4) Touch screen works perfectly, although finger marks trigger my OCD!5) Wire lengths were enormous6) It's a doddle to use, once you have learned what the few icons meanCons:1) Once the unit is turned on and has 12v power, it will not turn itself off unless you do it manually or cut the power. As my unit is plugged into a permanently on 12v socket, it is always on, which drains the battery, unless I turn if off2) If I turn it off, then when I use the parking monitor which is supposed to sense movement when the car is not in use and then briefly turn on, record a minute of video and turn it off again what essentially happens is that I turn it off, merely shutting the door triggers the movement sensor, which turns it on, and then *because it's connected to 12v permanently* it doesn't ever turn itself off! As such, I have to disable this feature, which is a shame, or it would drain my battery quickly like leaving lights on does3) Even if I turn it off and don't use the parking monitor, the 12v power adapter has a bright red light that is always on. This reduced my car battery from 12.1v to 11.8v overnight when I tested it. I wouldn't want to leave the car for more than a couple of days without having to unplug it, which is a pain as the socket is in a roof glove box in the back of the car4) The front camera rotates and swivels to help you center the recording, but it won't quite swivel far enough to the right to point centrally5) As the cables plug in at the top, and by mirror is already quite high on the windscreen, it's pretty hard to get a position where normal rear mirror is a good angle, without affecting the front camera as they touch the roof. As it is, to get a full rear view, the front camera is pointing slightly left of center and capturing a lot of the "windscreen sun dots" that are at the top of many windscreens. This is as much to do with my car as the unit, so not criticism but worth bearing in mind - maybe a future model could recess the cable connections a littleOverall, I was more pleased than I thought I would be for the price. I'm yet to use the reversing auto camera as I haven't ran that cable yet, but I look forward to doing to as that would mean I never have to touch the screen and get finger prints on it, but I'm happily using it manually until I do that.I'd give it 5 stars if the 12v adapter didn't have a bright light, and if the parking monitor would still turn the unit off even if it's connected to power - i.e. if *I* turn it on, leave it on, if it's turned itself on, it should turn itself off too
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