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ANNKE 8 Channel 3K Lite Security DVR with 1TB eSSD, H.265 Hybrid 5-in-1 Surveillance Digital Video Recorder, AI Human& Vehicle Detection, Supports 8CH Analog and 2 * 6MP IP Cameras for 24/7 Home CCTV

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Connectivity technology VGA, USB, HDMI
Compatible devices Personal Computers, Tablet, Camera, Smartphone
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Memory storage capacity 1 TB
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  • 【Sustainable eDVR Contribute to the Earth】First-seen eDVR consumes 45% less energy than traditional digital video recorder, saving 40-45 KWh/Yr (sufficient for an iPhone 13's 3,000 charges). Every percentage of energy we saved is every action we step firmly for our planet.
  • 【Next-Gen eSSD Tech Surpasses Traditional HDDs】The eSSD's longer-than-ever service life of over 10 years is granted by nearly no shock, as opposed to the 4-5 year lifespan of HDDs that are susceptible to damage from strong vibrations. The read/write capacity is also enhanced by specially designed NAND, compared to normal security camera dvr.
  • 【H.265-Based Smart Scene-Adaptive Bitrate Control】This ANNKE 8 channels DVR utilizes intelligent algorithms to adapt a high/low bitrate whether the scenario is complex with human/vehicles in the frame, avoiding hassles in setting manually. The smart algorithms cooperate with H.265, which not only helps you to record videos continuously for 2 weeks with 8 cameras but also better than the traditional 1TB HDD.
  • 【Palm-Sized eDVR Fits Everywhere】Thanks to the chip-level eSSD tech, this home security DVR is only half weight of a traditional DVR. Smaller in size means easier installation on the shelf or even on the wall without affecting the house's decoration and design.
  • 【3K Lite Hybrid eDVR with Motion 2.0】This security camera DVR recorder supports 3K@20fps/5MP @20fps TVI cams/1080P AHD/CVI/CVBS analog cameras, and two 6MP IPCs. With the latest Motion 2.0 and real-time alerts, it's hassle-free to notice real threats caused by humans/vehicles, and smartly search crucial clips for evidence when needed.
  • 【Lifetime Professional Technical Support】Having passed strict UL, CE, FCC, etc. certifications, ANNKE's app is compiled with GDPR so that all data are transferred safely without charges. And ANNKE professional team is always ready to help you out one-on-one.

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Customers appreciate the value of the digital video recorder. They say it's a great buy and good value for the price.

"Easier user interface and install than my previous Swann system. Cost is much better...." Read more

"...Mostly because the Swann cameras would work with this model. Great price too, and a solid box with a similar footprint to the Swann...." Read more

"...Now connected to my mobilephone for monitoring. Really good value for money. This is to replace my previous 5 years old chinese made dvr...." Read more

"Good for the price but manual is not very helpful. I had to contact the factory support!" Read more

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Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the digital video recorder. Some mention that it has an easier user interface and install than their previous Swann system, while others say that it's too complicated than simpler Swann and that the manual is not very helpful.

"Easy set up, works perfectly and a great app for remote view as well, used this as a replacement to a Swann dvr" Read more

"It’s too complicated than simpler Swann.. have to Go through too many hurdles to just set up.. N then too many hurdles to be able to get it on my..." Read more

"Easier user interface and install than my previous Swann system. Cost is much better...." Read more

"...Easy to install and run. Now connected to my mobilephone for monitoring. Really good value for money...." Read more

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Solid box and value for money
Chose Annke to replace a Swann box that died after 10 years of trouble-free service. The Swann cameras were all OK, and I enquired about a refurb Swann, but a bit too expensive for what I wanted. With the help of the Annke support guys I chose Annke model DW81KD. Mostly because the Swann cameras would work with this model. Great price too, and a solid box with a similar footprint to the Swann. There were a few teething problems, however Annke support helped out, and the system is up and running. If you are going to integrate a new box into your system, take some advice pre-sales before you do, as the support team are very helpful. This model is very sensitive and captures people and cars quite effectively. What is a bit of a hassle is the ability to stop the motion detection of trees. On the Annke box you have to draw the area you want captured, ignoring plants, trees etc. It's a bit cumbersome but I got there. The zoom is great, and I was surprised it worked with the Swann cameras. The playback menu is quite useful, as you can choose to look at 'just' people or vehicles - saves wading through frame after frame. If you are new to surveillance, it takes a while to get used to digging around in the menu. So, I'm happy I have great solution.
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Reviewed in Australia on 6 December 2023
Style Name: 8CH DVR+1TB HDDVerified Purchase
Easy set up, works perfectly and a great app for remote view as well, used this as a replacement to a Swann dvr
Reviewed in Australia on 21 March 2023
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Easier user interface and install than my previous Swann system. Cost is much better.

I really like it, so have ordered a second system for another application.
Reviewed in Australia on 20 February 2024
Style Name: 8CH DVR+1TB HDDVerified Purchase
Chose Annke to replace a Swann box that died after 10 years of trouble-free service. The Swann cameras were all OK, and I enquired about a refurb Swann, but a bit too expensive for what I wanted. With the help of the Annke support guys I chose Annke model DW81KD. Mostly because the Swann cameras would work with this model. Great price too, and a solid box with a similar footprint to the Swann. There were a few teething problems, however Annke support helped out, and the system is up and running. If you are going to integrate a new box into your system, take some advice pre-sales before you do, as the support team are very helpful. This model is very sensitive and captures people and cars quite effectively. What is a bit of a hassle is the ability to stop the motion detection of trees. On the Annke box you have to draw the area you want captured, ignoring plants, trees etc. It's a bit cumbersome but I got there. The zoom is great, and I was surprised it worked with the Swann cameras. The playback menu is quite useful, as you can choose to look at 'just' people or vehicles - saves wading through frame after frame. If you are new to surveillance, it takes a while to get used to digging around in the menu. So, I'm happy I have great solution.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid box and value for money
Reviewed in Australia on 20 February 2024
Chose Annke to replace a Swann box that died after 10 years of trouble-free service. The Swann cameras were all OK, and I enquired about a refurb Swann, but a bit too expensive for what I wanted. With the help of the Annke support guys I chose Annke model DW81KD. Mostly because the Swann cameras would work with this model. Great price too, and a solid box with a similar footprint to the Swann. There were a few teething problems, however Annke support helped out, and the system is up and running. If you are going to integrate a new box into your system, take some advice pre-sales before you do, as the support team are very helpful. This model is very sensitive and captures people and cars quite effectively. What is a bit of a hassle is the ability to stop the motion detection of trees. On the Annke box you have to draw the area you want captured, ignoring plants, trees etc. It's a bit cumbersome but I got there. The zoom is great, and I was surprised it worked with the Swann cameras. The playback menu is quite useful, as you can choose to look at 'just' people or vehicles - saves wading through frame after frame. If you are new to surveillance, it takes a while to get used to digging around in the menu. So, I'm happy I have great solution.
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Reviewed in Australia on 13 July 2022
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Some people leave a negatif feedbacks, but im so happy with this product. Easy to install and run. Now connected to my mobilephone for monitoring. Really good value for money. This is to replace my previous 5 years old chinese made dvr. But will see how long this dvr will last.
Reviewed in Australia on 28 November 2022
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Unable to get to work with Swann Cameras
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Reviewed in Australia on 10 October 2023
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It’s too complicated than simpler Swann.. have to Go through too many hurdles to just set up.. N then too many hurdles to be able to get it on my phone Not everyone is a IT expert..,
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Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2024
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product was easy to install and set up.
Reviewed in Australia on 15 August 2023
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Good for the price but manual is not very helpful. I had to contact the factory support!

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tim
5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, Easy to Use, Nice Streaming
Reviewed in the United States on 12 March 2024
Style Name: 8CH DVR+1TB HDDVerified Purchase
This device is much smaller than it's predecessor I was using (DN81R). It's a nice upgrade to be SSD instead of HD as well, which provides much snappier playback and camera viewing. I'm also looking forward to getting some of their 3k cameras for even better resolution.

The only setting you'll want to change right away though is by default the motion sensors are on 24/7 on all cameras by default. So when you set up the ANNKE Vision App, you'll be getting quite a few notificaitons.

Other than that, setup was easy and straight forward, took 30 minutes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, Easy to Use, Nice Streaming
Reviewed in the United States on 12 March 2024
This device is much smaller than it's predecessor I was using (DN81R). It's a nice upgrade to be SSD instead of HD as well, which provides much snappier playback and camera viewing. I'm also looking forward to getting some of their 3k cameras for even better resolution.

The only setting you'll want to change right away though is by default the motion sensors are on 24/7 on all cameras by default. So when you set up the ANNKE Vision App, you'll be getting quite a few notificaitons.

Other than that, setup was easy and straight forward, took 30 minutes.
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Mark
5.0 out of 5 stars Great comparability
Reviewed in the United States on 3 March 2024
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Hand sam7ng security cameras the DVR for the system stop working (FYI Samsung security camera very poor customer support) replaced with this unit easy setup and the cameras in our store are fully operational
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D. Gilmartin
4.0 out of 5 stars Works well, very poor documentation, less than stellar support
Reviewed in the United States on 8 March 2023
Style Name: 8CH DVR+1TB HDDVerified Purchase
My 2020 Annke dvr stopped working and I needed a new one fast. This unit was delivered by Amazon overnight, which was great. The unit is the smallest, in terms of footprint, I have ever used. The hookup is identical to the 2020 unit. My only gripe with the physical design is the location of the two usb ports, used for mouse and thumb drive export, which are both on the back and is inconvenient. The software has been upgraded considerably and I don't get events from flying bugs and pollen flying around at night as much. The manual that came with the unit is woefully short on information. I emailed a question about renaming the cameras, and was referred to Chat Support. Chat support is useless. I was 8 in line when I logged in and got down to three in a half hour, then was disconnected. I went back and I was 8 again. The phone number is equally useless. I called and was hung up while on hold. I eventually figured out what should have been in the manual on my own. If you are not technically challenged with a bit of poking around with the software you can figure most things out. The price was good on this unit.
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Darius
5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice DVR for the price, worked with my Swann 960H cams (3 month review)
Reviewed in the United States on 16 June 2023
Style Name: 8CH DVR+1TB HDDVerified Purchase
[6/16/23] Day 1
To be completely honest, I wasn't expecting much especially at this price. To my surprise, this is a nice and feature rich DVR. I have mine set to record 24/7 but you can set motion detection recording only if that's your style. User manual is clear and detailed, not a common sight with cheap Chinese brands. You can set email (only if connected to internet, ethernet only no wifi), audible, and visual alarms for events. One weird thing I noticed is that theres no way for the DVR to be turned off while it's plugged in, if you shut it down from the GUI it will prompt you to unplug the DVR, why? Not an issue but just weird. Saw someone else have problems with Swann cameras working, but my PRO-642 960H cams were plug and play, no additional configuration required. The DVR picked up the format, resolution, bitrate, framerate all automatically. I can't comment on motion detection and false alerts, but they're there if you want them. Overall I'm very happy with my purchase.
[6/28/23]
So far so good. 100% uptime with all of my cams constantly recording. Still very happy.
[9/13/23]
Drive has filled up and is overwriting old footage, this is desired behavior. Just mentioning it because it has caused playback and seeking through video to become sluggish. It's a hard drive, so this isn't really too surprising. Other than that it's still running and recording 24/7, it has had about 20 minutes of downtime in the past 3 months and only because of circumstances unrelated to the dvr. This is my final update. If something significant happens I'll report here but other than that I have nothing else to say.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice DVR for the price, worked with my Swann 960H cams (3 month review)
Reviewed in the United States on 16 June 2023
[6/16/23] Day 1
To be completely honest, I wasn't expecting much especially at this price. To my surprise, this is a nice and feature rich DVR. I have mine set to record 24/7 but you can set motion detection recording only if that's your style. User manual is clear and detailed, not a common sight with cheap Chinese brands. You can set email (only if connected to internet, ethernet only no wifi), audible, and visual alarms for events. One weird thing I noticed is that theres no way for the DVR to be turned off while it's plugged in, if you shut it down from the GUI it will prompt you to unplug the DVR, why? Not an issue but just weird. Saw someone else have problems with Swann cameras working, but my PRO-642 960H cams were plug and play, no additional configuration required. The DVR picked up the format, resolution, bitrate, framerate all automatically. I can't comment on motion detection and false alerts, but they're there if you want them. Overall I'm very happy with my purchase.
[6/28/23]
So far so good. 100% uptime with all of my cams constantly recording. Still very happy.
[9/13/23]
Drive has filled up and is overwriting old footage, this is desired behavior. Just mentioning it because it has caused playback and seeking through video to become sluggish. It's a hard drive, so this isn't really too surprising. Other than that it's still running and recording 24/7, it has had about 20 minutes of downtime in the past 3 months and only because of circumstances unrelated to the dvr. This is my final update. If something significant happens I'll report here but other than that I have nothing else to say.
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Albert
1.0 out of 5 stars Bad
Reviewed in the United States on 18 May 2021
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UPDATE: Lowered from 2 Stars to 1. I bought the 8mp annke system after this one didn't work as advertised. That one was even worse. Writing a review for that one next. Stay far away from Annke brand. You'll get one response from customer service per day in broken english. They'll give you pictures of where to click and on what menus - but they do not match the system. For instance: they say "Click the 'page' icon and then go to blah blah blah" But there IS NO page icon. The user interface they're trying to coach me on is different than what I have. Different firmware or something. I don't know.
UPDATE END. ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW.

There is more bad with this setup than good. My main concern is that I can't backup video files in an easily viewable format. I've been fiddling with this for days now downloading all different players and converters and I've yet to play a video on my PC. How are the police supposed to examine the footage??? They're just coming to hang out in my living room to watch the monitor here? And what if I find the criminal and take him to court? How do they view the footage? This is a very simple feature that should take priority. Contemplating returning it since a LOT of the features just flat out don't work:

CONS
- There is no USB slot in the front of the system. Making it a pain to plug in a thumb drive to backup files. Something this dvr REALLY doesn't want you to do apparently...
- The DVR records in weird 15-30 second chunks. I need to backup hours at a time. Impossible when every clips is 15 seconds... (see image)
- It SAYS you can backup files as AVI. But you really can't. Broken feature. See images.
- The H265+ might be incredible. I have no idea. I can't view it on my PC. Even after trying to download several players and converters as recommended by their customer service. I can only view video ON the DVR itself.
- It's VERY difficult to search for a specific time. It just doesn't work. It shows a list of literally one thousand 15-30 second clips. All jumbled and out of order. How am I supposed to find a specific hour? I can't.
- I can't export AVI clips. I understand the quality might not be as great. But if you CAN'T VIEW the H265+ mp4 files then who cares how clear it is? My home/cars gets vandalized way too often. I upgraded to this 5mp clearer set up to hopefully help police identify them. The police in my area are just bad. Lazy. I can barely get them to view my shoddy AVI files from my previous system. I will NEVER get them to download a specific player and install it in their computers there in order to just view MY security camera footage. Even if they were technically capable of it, which they're not, they're just too lazy to go through all that. They'll just say "The files wouldn't open". So, again, what good is this system if you can't show people the videos? Just so I can see with crystal clarity the guy who destroys my property and be upset about it?
- Smart view: supposedly shows you a timeline of your recording. Regular is blue. Motion detected in red. So you can save time by skipping to areas where motion is detected. Very cool feature.... if it worked. It doesn't. There was no red on my timeline (there were a lot of cars going by). It works the same as regular playback.
- Timeline displays time in 24hr format even though I set it to a 12hr format.
- The instructions given to me by customer service don't apply to my dvr. They're telling me to click options that just aren't there.

PROS
- The rewind is very smooth.

I'm really frustrated with this system. Custom service was no help with my issues. So much of this just doesn't make any sense. Why can't I output in AVI even though it says it's an option? Why can't I backup more than 2 cameras at a time? Why can't I backup hour long blocks? It feels so broken...
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Albert
1.0 out of 5 stars Bad
Reviewed in the United States on 18 May 2021
UPDATE: Lowered from 2 Stars to 1. I bought the 8mp annke system after this one didn't work as advertised. That one was even worse. Writing a review for that one next. Stay far away from Annke brand. You'll get one response from customer service per day in broken english. They'll give you pictures of where to click and on what menus - but they do not match the system. For instance: they say "Click the 'page' icon and then go to blah blah blah" But there IS NO page icon. The user interface they're trying to coach me on is different than what I have. Different firmware or something. I don't know.
UPDATE END. ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW.

There is more bad with this setup than good. My main concern is that I can't backup video files in an easily viewable format. I've been fiddling with this for days now downloading all different players and converters and I've yet to play a video on my PC. How are the police supposed to examine the footage??? They're just coming to hang out in my living room to watch the monitor here? And what if I find the criminal and take him to court? How do they view the footage? This is a very simple feature that should take priority. Contemplating returning it since a LOT of the features just flat out don't work:

CONS
- There is no USB slot in the front of the system. Making it a pain to plug in a thumb drive to backup files. Something this dvr REALLY doesn't want you to do apparently...
- The DVR records in weird 15-30 second chunks. I need to backup hours at a time. Impossible when every clips is 15 seconds... (see image)
- It SAYS you can backup files as AVI. But you really can't. Broken feature. See images.
- The H265+ might be incredible. I have no idea. I can't view it on my PC. Even after trying to download several players and converters as recommended by their customer service. I can only view video ON the DVR itself.
- It's VERY difficult to search for a specific time. It just doesn't work. It shows a list of literally one thousand 15-30 second clips. All jumbled and out of order. How am I supposed to find a specific hour? I can't.
- I can't export AVI clips. I understand the quality might not be as great. But if you CAN'T VIEW the H265+ mp4 files then who cares how clear it is? My home/cars gets vandalized way too often. I upgraded to this 5mp clearer set up to hopefully help police identify them. The police in my area are just bad. Lazy. I can barely get them to view my shoddy AVI files from my previous system. I will NEVER get them to download a specific player and install it in their computers there in order to just view MY security camera footage. Even if they were technically capable of it, which they're not, they're just too lazy to go through all that. They'll just say "The files wouldn't open". So, again, what good is this system if you can't show people the videos? Just so I can see with crystal clarity the guy who destroys my property and be upset about it?
- Smart view: supposedly shows you a timeline of your recording. Regular is blue. Motion detected in red. So you can save time by skipping to areas where motion is detected. Very cool feature.... if it worked. It doesn't. There was no red on my timeline (there were a lot of cars going by). It works the same as regular playback.
- Timeline displays time in 24hr format even though I set it to a 12hr format.
- The instructions given to me by customer service don't apply to my dvr. They're telling me to click options that just aren't there.

PROS
- The rewind is very smooth.

I'm really frustrated with this system. Custom service was no help with my issues. So much of this just doesn't make any sense. Why can't I output in AVI even though it says it's an option? Why can't I backup more than 2 cameras at a time? Why can't I backup hour long blocks? It feels so broken...
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