Dan Bourque
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- COWON AW2
There are some side-by-side comparison videos on YouTube showing the BlackVue 500, BlackSys CF100, iTronics ITB100HD, and COWON AW1 (same camera specs, but single unit). In my opinion, the AW1 (and presumably the AW2) videos are far better than BlackVue's for clarity, especially at night. I'm *nearly* sold on the idea, and I'm probably gonna buy it in the next few days.
Here are those videos:
In the meantime, I was hoping someone could answer a few remaining questions.
1. In gs1000flash's video of the PC software posted on Dec 30, it shows the user can change the language setting to English. Does this also affect the voice prompts? I asked this question of one seller (apple-ct on eBay) and he seems to think it doesn't; that they're only available in Korean. I did find another seller (gabin-word on eBay) that is selling one that specifically says "English firmware" and "English prompts", but I'm wondering if this is a firmware hack, or if it's legitimately from the manufacturer. Does anyone have any info on this?
2. Did anyone find out the actual bitrates? apple-ct just responded "AW2 is the latest model and the best quality", but didn't actually say the bitrate. Does anyone have raw video files, recorded at the highest quality?
3. Does the button on the front camera allow the user to "protect the current video" on both front & back cameras, like an emergency, or SOS button? I didn't see this mentioned in Niko's translated PDF (thanks for that, BTW!). I suppose I can just physically slap the camera, in order to cause the G-sensor to think it was in an accident, but I don't know if this also causes the rear camera to mark its video the same way.
If I do buy it, I'll post a review. Thanks for any help!
Dan.
Here are those videos:
In the meantime, I was hoping someone could answer a few remaining questions.
1. In gs1000flash's video of the PC software posted on Dec 30, it shows the user can change the language setting to English. Does this also affect the voice prompts? I asked this question of one seller (apple-ct on eBay) and he seems to think it doesn't; that they're only available in Korean. I did find another seller (gabin-word on eBay) that is selling one that specifically says "English firmware" and "English prompts", but I'm wondering if this is a firmware hack, or if it's legitimately from the manufacturer. Does anyone have any info on this?
2. Did anyone find out the actual bitrates? apple-ct just responded "AW2 is the latest model and the best quality", but didn't actually say the bitrate. Does anyone have raw video files, recorded at the highest quality?
3. Does the button on the front camera allow the user to "protect the current video" on both front & back cameras, like an emergency, or SOS button? I didn't see this mentioned in Niko's translated PDF (thanks for that, BTW!). I suppose I can just physically slap the camera, in order to cause the G-sensor to think it was in an accident, but I don't know if this also causes the rear camera to mark its video the same way.
If I do buy it, I'll post a review. Thanks for any help!
Dan.