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Vitamin D not following the industry evolution

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Re: Vitamin D not following the industry evolution

by JohannesL » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:15 pm

ryan wrote:JohannesL,

Access to higher resolution video in app is certainly something I would like to get in soon.

col,

I'm glad you enjoy the software and I promise that it has not been abandoned and that there is a great desire to see it live on well into the future.



Thank's Ryan,

I don't want to be rude, but do I need to wait for next 18 months for something to happen?

Johannes

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Re: Vitamin D not following the industry evolution

by ryan » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:23 pm

Hi Johannes,

All I can say is that I still feel that VDV is the best software in its class on the market today, but 18 months from now without updates that would likely no longer be the case. I'd certainly like to see it remain the best.

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Re: Vitamin D not following the industry evolution

by JohannesL » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:45 pm

ryan wrote:Hi Johannes,

All I can say is that I still feel that VDV is the best software in its class on the market today, but 18 months from now without updates that would likely no longer be the case. I'd certainly like to see it remain the best.



Hi,

Thank's for a quick answer.

I have now been using VitaminD about 3 years with professional outdoor cameras. If I measure VDV against other camera monitoring SW, using false alarms as the parameter, my view is that there is no difference compared to any other SW, which provides entry/exit or border detection functionality. If the comparision is done indoors in stable environment with VGA cameras, well yes, there can be a difference in theory.

Anyway, it is up to you to decide the customer segment you are looking for. For sure, cameras have been evolving (lens, angle, capacity, microphone usage, triggers, leds, pa) during the last 3 years or so and I have not seen any improvement in VDV.

It is true that GUI is still the easiest to use. I'll bet, I'm not the only one here to say that preventing false alarms is the key added value for VDV and unfortunately you start to loose the momentum.

Johannes

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