Nigel, why would you advise someone to buy a dash cam with the best image quality on the market, only to reduce Bitarte and reduce image quality?
If I am going on a long and generally boring journey, then I will reduce the bitrate to get a longer record time, but I will put it back up for the scenic bits!
A Viofo 512GB card is currently over $100, if you normally only do 10 Km per day then the expense is hardly justified. If the money isn't an issue then just treat it as an investment, but clearly there is a money issue here, so I would rather save $50 on the card, and spend it on the resolution.
How do you people get footage from it? Do you download a certain time window via the app and transfer it? Or put the SD card in a laptop/PC and transfer it that way? I assume you have some kind of timeline in the app right? Where you can scroll through all footage?
Dashcams record files in short segments, typically 1 or 3 minutes long. In the Viofo App, these are treated individually, unfortunately not aranged in journeys, but in a normal file list.
If I want a single file, I will normally download it to my phone via the app.
If I am recording a movie, I will put the memory card in the PC and copy all the files off. Then you need an editor of some sort to stick them all together in sequence, that subject is for another thread!
OK, forget everything I said.
We might get a new 4K model in 90 days. lol
Hmm, isn't that always the case!
But I don't think Gerbe would change his choice, so I wont recommend waiting.
Would the A229 Pro really last me longer? I mean, things are going quick and we're going from 4k to 8k to 16k. Would the 4k version last longer than the 1440p? Because it's 50% more expensive. The 512GB SD does sound good, especially when I've got longer drives that I want to put in a timelapse.
I can see you wanting to upgrade in a year or two if you go for the 2K now. If you go for the 4K then you will probably keep it for longer.
But used dashcams have a value, they always get reused, passed to the wife, or sold.
Yes, a few years ago we had FHD dashcams, then 2K, now 4K, so next year should be 8K
, and 16K in ????
Except, I think for most people 2K is sufficient, 4K is excellent, and it will probably stay that way, since it is unlikely that license plates will get harder to read. So the 8K dashcams should only be for the people who like to make 4K movies, and want to zoom in during editing. Having said that, the upcoming telephoto does make license plate reading a lot easier, so people will want 8K for reading license plates as a premium option, as long as memory cards get bigger!
If you intend to make nice movies, then the ability to zoom in on things without loosing detail is nice to have. With 2K you don't have that, with 4K you can, but it is limited, 8K would be very nice.