Gibson99
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I don't disagree with your premise here @Gibson99 but some developers like Street Guardian, Viofo, DoD, Vico and others put a great deal of effort and care into their products using already-working solutions. There is a distinction I think between developers attempting to create a quality brand and all the crappy generic stuff coming out of China even if they essentially use the same or very similar off-the-shelf solutions using a different, low rent margin scheme.
Yes, that's why I specified "cheap" dashcams. The ones you mentioned aren't cheap but you do get what you pay for with them.
The cheap crap i was talking about and that jokiin talks about damaging the market are basically just building the bare essentials on the reference board provided by the chipset maker and throwing on the standard software from the free SDK, also provided by the chip maker... And if you're lucky, they might even do some basic firmware tuning. But that's it. No updates, no support, and if someone discovers a bug, they won't fix it either.