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The 10-8 Video System was born out of the personal necessity of our founder. As an officer and K-9 handler with a small department, funding was not available for in-car video systems. And in today's judicial environment, they are becoming an absolute necessity! More & More DAs are saying 'If it's not on video, it didn't happen'. So began looking into the 12 major suppliers of patrol car video systems and were disappointed that they started at about $3,000-4,000 and went way up from there. Some even needed additional back end equipment to support the systems in the vehicles. We looked at surplus equipment, but it was very outdated and came with no guarantees to be complete or even work. So with 25+ years in the computer & electronics industry, he put that experience to work to design a system that takes advantage of modern recording and storage technology.

The 10-8 Video System was designed with some very important goals in mind:

Reliability:

Enclosed in an all metal casing, our Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is designed specifically for mobile use. With no moving parts, it is able to withstand a much higher degree of bumps and vibrations than most of the higher priced systems on the market today. By eliminating all moving parts in the recording process, our system will still be recording during the critical times when you really need it. The older systems that used any form of video tapes would often show static or blank out at critical moments. This was due to the fact that the video tape was moving across a recording head that was spinning at a high rate of speed. Not real reliable when chasing a suspect off road or over curbs! Now in the age of digital recording, many of the products on the market today have designed their systems around hard drives and DVD recorders. While certainly an improvement over video tape in many ways, they too are very susceptible to hard bumps and vibrations.

Ask any computer technician what the last thing any computer with a hard drive does when it is turned off or put in standby: The heads inside the hard drive are parked in a location to prevent damage to your data should the computer get bumped or moved! By using hard drives and DVDs for vehicle recorders, departments are gambling that the recording will be there when events are not happening so 'smoothly'.Certainly there are ways to mount and vibration dampen the drive to help reduce the chances of losing critical evidence, but you can not eliminate it. With our no moving parts recording system, our recording media has been tested to continue recording up to a 50g impact!

Admissible Evidence:

Defense attorneys will always want to attack video evidence. In particular, digital video that is recorded in a format that is easily manipulated on a computer. Our system records in a proprietary format that can not be manipulated with any commercial video editing software. The software included with our system is extremely easy to use and can be used for viewing and saving videos, but they can not be edited. Individual events can be saved on your office computer, and the proprietary format is retained for evidence use in court. But you are given the option of saving a file in a common format for sharing or teaching if desired.

Modular Design:

By keeping the system modular in 4 small components, we have a system that is very easy to install and maintain. Should any of the 4 components fail or have a problem, it can be swapped out in a matter of minutes! Our system is not only one of the most reliable on the market, it is also one of the smallest! And our 10-8 Video system is not 'vehicle specific' as many of the video systems are today. Our 10-8 Video system can be installed in almost any type of vehicle! Many of the systems on the market today have been designed into 1 or 2 major components. This makes installation and problem solving much more difficult. And when a problem arises, they expect you to un-install and return for repair.

Affordability:

Our 10-8 Video System was designed for the small departments that do not have access to the kind of funding the larger departments have access to. Most of the major video systems on the market today target their product to larger departments where they can get orders for a large number of systems at once. By using the latest in recording technology and small reliable components, we can provide systems at 1/3 the cost of similar systems.

Technical Specifications:

System:

• Video system:
  NTSC
• Operation:
  IR remote control
• OSD Language:
  English
• Working Mode:
  Duplex
• GPS:
  Yes - with on-screen display Speed/Coordinates
• Google Map on Play Back:
  Yes - Moving map synced to video.
• On-Screen Display:
  Date/time, Officer, Speed & Coordinates
• Crash Sensor:
  Yes - with pre/post record and user selectable G-limits
• Signal Loss Alarm:
  Yes
• Power Shutdown Recover:
  Yes
• Security Protection:
  Yes - Locking SD Cover
• Pre/Post Alarm Recording:
  Yes - User-defined limits

Video:

• Compression Format:
  MPEG4
• File Format:
  Proprietary
• View Mode Resolution:
  NTSC: 720 x 480/352 x 224/176 x 128 pixels
• Record Speed:
  Up to 30fps per camera (NTSC)
• Record Mode:
  Constant/motion detection/alarm trigger
• Record Resolution:
  4 levels (super/high/normal/standard)
• Search Playback:
  Yes
• View Mode:
  Switchable: Front / Rear / Split
• Play Mode:
  1/2 Camera Switchable

Storage and Backup:

• Video Storage:
  Up to 2 SDHC cards
• Two Card Slots:
  Each up to 32GB for total of 64GB storage
• Record Modes:
  Overwrite or stop selectable while SDHC card is full
• Firmware Upgradeable:
  Yes
• A/V Storage Format:
  Recorded data (SDHC card)

I/O:

• Audio I/O:
  Two (2) in and one (1) out
• Alarm/Trigger I/O:
  Four alarm input or auto record from 2.4ghz wireless mic.
• Pre-Alarm Recording:
  Pre/post alarm recording - user defined (30 sec to 2 min)

Video I/O:

• Input:
  Up to two (2) cameras input
• Output:
  One (1) RCA A/V output port

Power supply:

• Working Voltage:
  10 to 32V DC
• Power Consumption:
  12V DC, 200mA

Software:

• Operating System:
  Windows XP/Vista/7
• Playback:
  One (1) or two (2) camera simultaneous playback
• Maps & G-sensor Data:
  On-screen Google Maps with speed & G-sensor readings
• Searchable?:
  Searchable by event date/time
• Export:
  Export from proprietary format to common AVI

Dimensions

• 2in. High x 5.5in. Wide x 4.9in. Deep

10-8 Video System Sample Videos:

Please note that videos below have been reduced in size and quality for optimum web viewing.

Support for the 10-8 Video System:

The links below will always have the latest version of the 10-8 Player for the PC. Feel free to download and install on any PC that will be used for viewing 10-8 based video. Note that it can not be used for any other file formats. It will only read videos from the 10-8 System.

For technical questions or support, you can also email us at customer_support@10-8video.com