Person Sends In IPVM Sucks Video

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John Honovich
Jul 24, 2021
IPVM

Someone made an "IPVM Sucks" video and asked us to share it:

The person also emailed us saying:

Hello there, we watched your most recent youtube video regarding ISC West expo. Fun to pick on a Chinese company to promote your lousy business. It won't cost that much to edit videos regarding your low business strategy. I will contact HIKVISION China to see if we can work together to make some fun vidoes to promote your business for free.

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Undisclosed #1
Jul 24, 2021

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Do you have any plans to change your accusations to hold weitht in the future? Also, can you explain what weitht is, and why an accusation should hold it?

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Lynn Harold
Jul 25, 2021

I think weitht is related to bushit... cuz we can...

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John Honovich
Jul 24, 2021
IPVM

I shared the link to this post to the person, asking:

Are you interested in having an actual conversation to talk about the merits of our criticism of these companies?

The person responded:

It's not criticism but bullying. When you said those harassing comments in your video, have you done any real life research instead of online googling?

I responded:

Yes, we have done extensive research and even published a peer reviewed scientific study, see: Globally deployed COVID-19 fever screening devices using infrared thermographs consistently normalize high readings to afebrile range

How much do you know about us?

No response since but if they do respond, I will add here.

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John Honovich
Jul 26, 2021
IPVM

The person still has not responded since we informed him of our extensive testing.

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John Honovich
Jul 26, 2021
IPVM

The person has now responded, ignoring our testing, sending a new video that just adds a text overlay to the retired Air Force General video, screencapped for reference:

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Kyle Folger
Jul 26, 2021
IPVMU Certified

That's so strange. I think the editor needs to work on graphic design so the message is more clear. The red is a bit hard to read.

What exactly is a "white" Chinese company?

IPVM seems to targets many companies when they deserve to be called out. Verkada is the current company of interest and they aren't a Chinese company. I'm just not sure why anyone would spend this much effort on such a "small, very new American camera surveillance company." They must not like the fact that a small company can have a fairly large impact on the industry.

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John Honovich
Jul 26, 2021
IPVM

Now he has responded saying:

Is Google search your testing and scientific study on temperature screening? How much do you know about temperature screening? Stop falsely accuse your chinese competitors! Story your business harassment!

Again, I explained about our actual testing and sent the link to the peer reviewed scientific study.

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Kyle Folger
Jul 26, 2021
IPVMU Certified

I guess it’s just a video troll at this point.

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Undisclosed Integrator #7
Aug 13, 2021

You confused them with "facts" - for some that's a real deal kill you know!

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Undisclosed Integrator #4
Jul 26, 2021

Well John, I would suggest you cross off the PRC as a possible vacation destination; you just might wind up staying a lot longer than planned if you go. 🤣

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Undisclosed #2
Jul 24, 2021
IPVMU Certified

Is the music original?

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Lynn Harold
Jul 27, 2021

I did a Shazam 4 times and got 4 different results. It's probably the built-in demo from a cheesy Casio synthesizer (nothing against Casio). Or, if you right-click on the video and you'll see it was created/hosted by Wistia - might be a music clip from their library (The video hosting platform made for B2B marketers | Wistia).

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Andrew Myers
Jul 27, 2021

IPVM uses Wistia to host videos. It's more likely that John uploaded the video to Wistia in order to post here.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
Jul 24, 2021

Unleash the propaganda machine on IPVM! First need to learn how to spell because that's a dead giveaway.

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Kyle Folger
Jul 26, 2021
IPVMU Certified

I tried watching the video but so much of the next seemed to be lost in translation. The funeral home music was a nice touch. However, the ending made me laugh out loud with IPVM SUCKS! The entire video was full of lousy fonts but I think they nailed the ending, especially with that sound effect.

I can't imagine spending time editing this video. They must have a lot of passion.

What sucks in editing video is exporting it; only to discover that you accidentally did something like add a space in You Tube. Then you need to export it again. Or you just skip proofreading and send it directly to IPVM.

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Undisclosed #2
Jul 26, 2021
IPVMU Certified

IMHO, this is fake Chinglish, designed to throw off suspicion*.

For comparison, real Chinglish.

*HIKVISION in all CAPS is either a dead giveaway or brilliant misdirection.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #5
Jul 26, 2021

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Undisclosed Distributor #6
Jul 26, 2021

They are the same picture

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Shannon Davis
Jul 26, 2021
IPVMU Certified

At least get some entertaining up beat music!

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Billy Guthrie
Jul 27, 2021
ZMANA

I love bad publicity; bad publicity is good publicity!

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Blaine D'Amico
Aug 01, 2021

At first I thought this was a parody video by John H to ridicule the idea that IPVM could possibly bully a giant PRC owned mega company luke HikVision.l. Then I realized that the content creator was serious. Did they think that John WOULDN'T post such a ridiculous self parody? Life imitates propoganda imitates life.

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Robert Shih
Aug 02, 2021
Independent

I swear Hikvision and LTS evangelists and apologists are triggering me on all fronts lately.

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Undisclosed #2
Aug 02, 2021
IPVMU Certified

Former coworkers?

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