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Comments (28)
Boris Bronstein
(I'm with CCTV.Net)
I would add only one thing:
There’s a direct Los Angeles to Hangzhou flight, we expect most integrators taking part to be local to us and this may help to make trip easier.
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Undisclosed #1
This promo will be a dud, IMO.
First, a trip to China is just not that attractive to most Americans. It takes a long time to get there, everyone speaks Chinese, the food is weird, the weather is not great, it's crowded, and they are rude (or least those are common perceptions).
Second, many integrators, especially smaller ones, are too busy to take time off to go to China. They will lose money on a trip like that because they are the ones driving their business, many times covering both sales and installations in many cases. Many of these guys are can't afford the time off to take a family vacation, or attend major trade shows.
This is one of those "First place is a set of steak knives, second place is a trip to China" kind of deals.
It has worked for Hikvision because they make it into a much more exclusive and lavish trip than what Uniview will likely be able to do.
Uniview should be investing in local presence in the US in the form of sales and support, local product stocking, co-marketing, etc.
An industry-standard series of Top Golf roadshows would probably work better if they just want to reward top dealers.
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Gerald Spradlin
We were one of the first volume distributors of Uniview. We initiated the partnership primarily because of the American ownership of Bain Capital. Bain Capital sold UNV and that lack of Western leadership already rearing its ugly head. We have visited their headquarters in Hangzhou many times and as recent as a few months ago. It's nice, and UNV makes a reliable product.
Suggestions to your promotion.............................
Give the winner an option, TOKYO or Hangzhou. And, Tokyo is 4 hours closer to the USA. Tokyo doesn't smell like vomit, you can breathe in Tokyo, the food is safe in Tokyo unlike Hangzhou, and you do NOT require a visa for entry into Japan. The people are fun, they are friendly, and there is actually a vibrant social scene in Tokyo. Hangzhou? I still go, but if given a choice? I'd never go. Its a bland city, a heavily smog infested city, traffic can be a nightmare, and while new hotels are helpful, they are still boring and internet so slow its pointless. MAKE CERTAIN if you are actually going to send this unfortunate winner to HZ that they get a visa first. AND please, surely you are putting them in business class. If forced in coach for 14-18 hrs? Stay home.
As for UNV.
Attractive housings, and an alternative to Dahua and Hik except UNV never did nor seemingly will be offering an HD Analog solution which excludes a high percentage of installers/integrators from even testing the brand. They dont want to sell HD analog to a customer using one interface and when the customer upgrades or adds IP, force them to learn yet another platform. I agree with the installer on this point. Too much of a hassle. God knows how much market share Axis could have taken had they marketed HD Analog simply as a loss leader just to introduce buyers to their software platform.
Image quality.
Well, using the same processor as every other maker will ultimately catch up to you.
This is not an indictment on UNV, this is plaguing all the makers in China. Other than a few firmware tweaks for white balance, color, hue, contrast, etc. Using Hisilicon plus Omni-Vision for nearly every IPC severely limits performance. Compression is adequate but aren't they all now? Hard drives so inexpensive, this isn't as important as before.
I want to sing praises, and will when someone actually engineers their own solution.
Simply knocking out the same Hisilicon DSP and same image sensors but tagging a high price on it wont get the job done. I'd GLADLY pay more for a pure Ambarella and Sony solution. But hey, that would cost a dollar more.
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John Honovich
Any halfway around the world trip is going to take quite a lot out of a participant, even if the trip is free, whatever the destination is, whether it is NYC to Dubai or LA to Hanghzou or London to Hawaii, etc.
(1) Total travel time, door to door, will be around 24 hours each way - time to get to the airport, time to get through the airport, 15 hours on a flight, time to get out of the airport, travel to hotel, etc. And it's going to be worse if you don't live close to the few airports with non-stops.
(2) Because of (1) You lose 2 full days just to travel. At that point, it would be crazy to only spend a day or 2, even if you just stay 3 days, that's still now a 5-day minimum trip.
(3) Recovering from a halfway around the world trip, especially when 1pm local time is the middle of the night for you will cause quite the disruption to many people, both in terms of sleeping at 'night' and doing activities during the 'day'.
(4) Are you traveling business or first class? I am assuming that's not included, as one trade magazine editor famously complained. In his defense, 15 hours in coach is not going to be comfortable and will make recovery even more difficult.
(5) You will be gone for a week. Who will take care of kids, elderly parents, pets, etc.? What will your spouse do? Most business professionals have at least one, if not multiple of those issues to deal with, and since it's not like regional flying where you can fly in one morning and easily back the next, it will require a lot of coordination.
None of this is a criticism of China, as it equally applies to any very long trips but these are things to consider.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
Caveat to poll, I am interested on a trip to China, but not by buying Uniview.
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Armando Perez
IPVMU Certified | 03/16/18 02:35am
Neat, maybe whoever wins can take along the 9 cameras im sitting on that uniview said they would replace but have yet to issue an RMA number for 9 months after telling us they are defective...
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Undisclosed Integrator #4
Dahua only shows the video from one angle
REASON:
If you were to look about a block in the opposite direction you would notice (2) Towers larger than the Dahua mini tower with the HIKVISION logo and a massive construction site where HIKVISION is building another Tower even closer to Dahua mini tower.
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Undisclosed Integrator #5
curious why univiews website shows all their US distributors with a mexican flag... Are we SURE this trip goes to China?
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John Honovich
Dahua Ticket To China Program:
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Undisclosed Distributor #6
Just doing research on UNV and found this page. Regardless of the correctness of this study, the comments below contains so many hates. So many hates that from people who never try to understand the other side of the world or have never been to the other side of world. The only information the haters get is from the news which are fed by organizations that runs for money. Last time I check, anti-china news makes over doubled the profit comparing pro-china news. This is upsetting that IPVM allows to have that many hate in the comments
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