Why are you asking what I'm doing?  I've said many times I'm sharing an experience I had.  Where exactly am I "bashing and bitching"

Maybe try some cognitive reading classes.

You think it's a lie to say that an older product that is still operational and working to the "potential of it's time", is an "operational" product?

Maybe this is true and I should have looked at a product with a longer warranty.  Honestly, I've never really worried about the length of a manufacture warranty.  Like many around here I have enough experience with products and brands that eventually we know which ones will last and which ones to avoid.

Does your question imply that the cameras are operating to the "potential of its time"?


You must be quite a salesman if the original performance of the cameras is such that it's "doubtful you could even make out an image on the recording, the resolution is so bad...."

If I were your customer and you installed a system that, when new, was that bad, I'd refuse to pay. I did not see how it was even vaguely possible that you were describing the performance of the system when it was new!

It may be operational, but is it actually useful if the resolution doesn't allow identifying things and people in order to resolve a problematic situation? Videotaped crimes show the equipment to be 'operational', but if the video is as blurry as a Bigfoot or UFO video, it's really not 'useful'.

So if you came into a job today that had an analog camera/DVR system that was installed around the year 2000, a time when max resolution was what, 480i?, and the system was still operational, you would expect that old system to perform better than it was performing?