Dahua Fakes Being American
Robbed from the Hikvision playbook, now Dahua takes it turn. Dahua, China's second largest manufacturer, is ramping up its marketing. Dahua...
By John Honovich - almost 6 years ago (Info+)
Robbed from the Hikvision playbook, now Dahua takes it turn. Dahua, China's second largest manufacturer, is ramping up its marketing. Dahua...
By John Honovich - almost 6 years ago (Info+)
The analyst who blasted Avigilon 2 weeks ago as being a Cash Strapped, Commodity Company is not backing down one bit. Indeed, the original target...
By John Honovich - about 6 years ago (Info+)
After a massive number of Hikvision cameras were hacked, Hikvision has added new, and questionable legal language, declaring that Hikvision will...
By John Honovich - about 6 years ago
ADT is special. Pricing for HD video has gone down sharply, but not for ADT whose "less than $2 a day offer" is quite impressive.
By John Honovich - about 6 years ago (Info+)
There is nothing quite like a really rich guy using charity to sell surveillance systems. The children may be the future, but for Eagle Eye...
By John Honovich - about 6 years ago (Info+)
Hikvision promoted the security of their directly sold Ezviz consumer line to Americans in a March 9, 2016 release. False It featured this false...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Samsung's video surveillance division told everyone that nothing was going to change. They were wrong, if not lying. They are losing the Samsung...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Run with scissors? Play in traffic? Trust ADI for networking advice? The last we checked with ADI, they were promoting bogus numbers from a...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Tyco has just unveiled, what it boasts, as delivering "the best quality color image" in night mode. That is, if you like slow moving people to be...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
We take it back; All the things about Ingram Micro being a bunch of fools. They have totally redeemed themselves. Faced with an increasingly...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Axis and Avigilon are reversing roles. While the IP video pioneer increasingly loosens its ethical standards, Avigilon has responded with a well...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
For more than a decade, Axis' #1 argument against analog has been no HD. This, of course, is no longer the case. Unfortunately, Axis remains in...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
You probably see these reports. Huge, unrealistic, growth projections from firms you have never head of. And you probably do not give it a second...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Axis' puzzling marketing campaign continues, reaching a new low. Check out this commercial:
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Dahua is the 'other' billion dollar plus Chinese manufacturer. Large in its own right, just not as huge or as well connected with the Chinese...
By Ethan Ace - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Default passwords are a major security risk, enabling hackers around the world to access and control devices like IP cameras (using Shodan, turning...
By IPVM Team - over 6 years ago (Info+)
ADI's corporate parent is evidently just as good with scare tactics as ADI is. SSN ran an article on a Honeywell survey, declaring: "Two-thirds...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
ADI wants you to buy alarm system parts from them, not those kits on the Internet. Leveraging scare tactics, they have made an unsurprisingly...
By Brian Rhodes - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Ripped from the headlines, spurred on by the France terror attacks, Avigilon's CEO has a solution. Inside this note we look at his aggressive...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
With $40+ billion annual sales, Ingram Micro is a mega distributor. But they have never been anything in physical security. Their last major push...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Some trade magazine editors quietly take gifts from manufacturers. Others flaunt it. Ralph Jensen [link no longer available] is the...
By John Honovich - almost 7 years ago (Info+)
You have to give credit where credit is due. Three years ago, Arecont introduced the idiotic Pixels Per Dollar metric. On the one hand, it is...
By John Honovich - almost 7 years ago (Info+)
A fascinating question: Can you trust salesman? Posed SourceSecurity. Unfortunately and ironically, the ONVIF chairman [link no longer...
By John Honovich - almost 7 years ago (Info+)
Pelco is rolling out their new multi-imager line and they are taking aim at Arecont. In their new promotion, here is the comparison they offer:
By John Honovich - almost 7 years ago (Info+)
What Avigilon is to intimidation and Arecont is to customer abuse, VideoSurveillance.com is to SEO Spam. Put ethics and integrity aside for a...
By John Honovich - about 7 years ago (Info+)
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