TRENDnet Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP100

by TRENDnet

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.4 x 1.5 x 4.4 inches ; 7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00023431C
• Item model number: TV-IP100
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

TRENDnets TV-IP100 Internet Camera Server is the perfect device for remote monitoring and transmitting real-time events over the Internet. The TV-IP100 functions as a video/surveillance camera allowing you to view live events with your web browser via Internet or Intranet. Up to 4 cameras can be remotely managed with the bundled IPView SE software. This Internet Camera Server has VGA quality streaming video, automatic image capture, and event notification via e-mail, making it the ideal solution for Internet video broadcasting applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great camera for the price, April 1, 2006

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HD (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TRENDnet Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP100 (Personal Computers)

I bought this camera and the Linksys WVC54GC. I don't really care about the wireless, but Linkys only offers wireless cameras.

This camera offers several improvments over the Linksys:

1. The TV-IP100 supports both Java and ActiveX, so you're not stuck with Internet Explorer or the lousy bundled software to view the video from the camera. The quality of the video is also much better. This camera does have a focus ring, so make sure to adjust it for the best picture quality.

2. The bundled software is better. It never crashed on me like the Linksys software would. TIP: Download IP-View Pro from TrendNet's support site by clicking on the link for the older versions of this camera (version A1 or B2). IP-View Pro offers more functionality than the IP-View SE bundled with the camera on CD, and appears to support more than the 4 cameras the SE version is limitted to.

3. A bonus for those who have POE (Power Over Ethernet) injectors or hubs, is that this camera's power connector is the right size and polarity to work with most 5V POE splitters. My setup delivers power to the camera of the spare wires in the ethernet cable. Linksys for some reason chose to use a smaller barrel connector than what my POE splitters come with, so an adapter is necessary.

If you really want or need Wireless connectivity, there is a wireless version of this camera.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice & Easy, January 18, 2007

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Larry Wood "Larry is actually my supervisor" (Sewanee, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TRENDnet Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP100 (Personal Computers)

Couldn't beat it for the price or ease of use. Easy to take the java feed coming out of it and plug it in to other web pages with a simple piece of code (just look at the source in the java view mode). Doesn't like all ethernet cords. Some seem to not make contact well unless you push them in all the way and then sometimes they lose connection after a day or so and need to be pushed back in a little more but, this is only with 1 or 2 cables that I tried.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool camera - can edit html for customization!, August 21, 2006

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B. Sholtess "prazinhim1" (Yukon, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TRENDnet Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP100 (Personal Computers)

I found that if you know about html, you can edit the files to change the appearance of the web page displaying the video image. I just created a page that will run the image at full screen. I found editing the activeX version works best! - don't forget to install the activeX control though.