Q-see 4CH Dvr with Motion Detection & USB 2.0 Port

by Q-See

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00188AA80
• Item model number: QSD004
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 4, 2008

Product Description

Q-SEE 4CH DVR WITH

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Works okay other than motion detection, December 19, 2008

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Flippy Smith - See all my reviews

This review is from: Q-see 4CH Dvr with Motion Detection & USB 2.0 Port (Personal Computers)

I bought one of these along with my neighbor from another site about a year ago. The motion detection is absolutely useless, so if you really want that feature buy another DVR. The remote control isn't intuitive at all so it makes it a little annoying to navigate the menus. If you have less than 4 cameras, you can disable the unused video inputs but when you set it to auto cycle through all the cameras, it still shows the blank blue screen for those inputs. Since this is an entry level CCTV DVR, it doesn't multitask, which means you have to stop recording to playback recordings. Other than those complaints the DVR works fairly well. Once in a while when the power goes out, when the DVR starts up it prompts to recover the HD where it left off, I'm not real sure what that means but it will stay at that prompt forever until you answer the question, which means if it happens while you're on vacation there goes your security system until you get back to say YES. This sounds like a negative review but for the price this isn't too bad of a choice. If you can find a DVR with functional motion detection for around this price, I'd get that one instead.

4.0 out of 5 stars Awsome recorder., October 11, 2009

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Bruce C. "bruce_books41" (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Q-see 4CH Dvr with Motion Detection & USB 2.0 Port (Personal Computers)

Despite having to install and format the hard drive, I found this recorder to be easy to operate and set up. The directions could use a little work.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Harddrive not included...should say so!, July 6, 2009

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E. Etter "wuz2blu" (Portland, Oregon, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Q-see 4CH Dvr with Motion Detection & USB 2.0 Port (Personal Computers)

This DVR looks good but what i didn't realize was that it's not designed for recording TV shows; it's made to record from security cameras. That's not the main problem, though.

What it should say in big letters in the product description is that YOU NEED TO PLUG A HARDDRIVE INTO IT BEFORE YOU CAN USE THIS DVR AT ALL!

(The company's website says an IDE harddrive but i didn't see where it said what minimum or maximum size you should or could use.)

The official page for this product is: http://www.q-see.com/products/security-product.php?ProductId=16