Garmin Dashcam 10 Test & Review

I DON'T know why you need all those hours of footage.

i personally don't see keeping old video if nothing has happened. i use my cellphone and the dailyroads voyager app. and only keep an hours worth of video.

now i can see recording a 10 hour loop. on your break. just in case something DID happen. but other then that. i just don't see the need.
i picked up my 32 gig from radioshack. class 10. it was on sale for $30. i only use 1 gig for my camcorder app. but i'm not recording in hi def. standard quality shows just as much detail. i mean, if you can't see the accident on the lowest quality setting. your probably blind.

i'd use my cell phone internal memory. but between copilot, sygic, and truckgps. the internal memory is darn near filled up with gps maps.

what i want to kinow, is how do license plates look. are they readable???? cuz that's the feature cell phone apps need. is a zoom feature.

 

I can't answer your question regarding license plates. I realize there could be a potential need to be able to read the plate, but honestly as long as the video can prove my innocence, I'm satisfied. I've only downloaded video onto my laptop once to view it and was amazed at the sharpness and detail. I just didn't look to see if plate registration was legible, duh, me!

 

I'm considering this unit (or the 20). If road bumps in a big truck are an issue with these, can you turn off G detection/save altogether and let the unit loop overwrite as normal, can you at any time access the unit to see all of the individual clips and retrieve the most recent or any other clip you need? (before it gets overwritten)

And for connection to Mac or PC, does it require proprietary software to access the vid files or does most any PC/Mac have the software to access and view and manage the files once connected via USB?

I'm also looking at the Cobra CDR-900 with wifi as I have other potential uses for it other then crash protection, and the wifi connection may make things easier for vid retrieval.

 

I have the 20. It shows the date, time, gps coordinates and how fast you are going.

If you have a mac, you can download VLC here www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html The videos are avi format and VLC plays them on Macs.

 

I bought the Cobra CDR 810 HD which has been great, I did have an issue with the power cord not working, sent back to Cobra they sent me a new one then it went out again but I use the adapter for the TND 720 and the TND uses the adapter for the CDR 810, it all works.

I leave it on all the time, I have point at the tailgater at night just in case it walks off. Someone will have to cut the cable lock first so I should get a good look at them.

Not that thats going to help but maybe.

The CDR-900 looks good though, I might have to check it out.

I do like Garmin but with there constant advertising on their other GPS units I find it intrusive and dont like the direction that company is going so I wont buy Garmin anymore.

If they are that close to advertisers then would not be surprised they share GPS data, habits etc with these same partners.

Just my opinion