Cricket IP Camera Claims "Exceptional Imaging, Unbeatable Price"
Author: John Honovich, Published on Apr 04, 2013Login to read this IPVM report.
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Comments (5)
Vincent McCullough
"North America" and "Manufacturing" are not often used in the same sentence any more let alone this industry. Hopefully this Canadian company can pull it off. John is right, more features like Edge recording will be necessary if they truly want to compete in the security market.
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Jeremiah Boughton
You should test the Cricket and update this post. I accidently found this camera while researching USB 3.0 cameras (28 ft) to see if USB 3.0 had any possible uses in the security world. (Note - Cricket is not USB but other PG cameras are) Point Grey Cricket store
Derek looks different in this video for some reason.
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