Dashmellow
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You see THAT is the point you most eloquently chose to ignore.
A huge amount of work is going on around the world as criminal justice professionals (police, judges, lawyers etc) wake up to the fact that “evidence” comes in many many different formats. And just like an insurance clerk may not have the skills/tools to deal with a certain file type, an iPhone user may not have the skills/tools to export a file in anything but default whatever that may be.
When some terrorist wanders into a high school and starts shooting school kids, the people dealing with the follow on investigation can’t ask people to check their dash cams/mobile phones/cctv etc in case they captured something that may be of help but then say “but we can only accept photos in bitmap format”.
So it’s taken some time but across Europe and North America this is being addressed which means TODAY a member of the public can provide “evidence” in whatever format works for them. This evidence is then used to form a picture of what happened in what may be a complex investigation that may have video footage, witness statements and so on.
I am not denying that at some point in the past (I’m guessing prior to 2013 when you joined this forum) you had an issue with your local hill billy police department which is different to what I am describing here but that doesn’t make what I am saying here wrong. Here in 2019 the world is very different. As I said, this is part of what I do for a living so have a very good view of the system as a whole from the inside in many countries not as a victim on the outside as you found yourself. As I said, the US actually leads the western world with a lot of this technology thus the huge take up of these “evidence cloud” platforms. In Europe for example, there is a lot more resistance to cloud in criminal justice mainly because most of the platforms are run by US companies.
So to my original point
If somebody chooses to buy a camera (regardless of if there is any benefit) that shoots in H265, they do not need to concern themselves that the footage won’t be usable if there is an accident and the whole thing ends up in court. As long as the file is in a current and supported format they will be perfectly fine.
You apparently have a habit of repeatedly speaking in provocative, insulting terms such as "your local hill billy police department" even though you have no clue what you are talking about. Nor do you know the situation I described or it's circumstances or duration and which is unrelated to when I happened to have joined this forum. It is always unfortunate when we have an arrogant and condescending character like wash up on these shores and who then immediately engages in such calumny. This is what always leads to blowing up a thread like this one just to stroke your own ego. I predict you won't last long here.
And you are also a self congratulatory c0ckalorum and elitist, speaking of "evidence clouds" and terrorism, mass shootings and high end policing or intelligence technologies. These things are entirely unrelated to the practical everyday world most dash cam users live in. Dash cam users are more concerned about dealing with their local insurance agency or attorney's office or the AV capabilities available at their local court house regardless of what sized municipality they may reside in.
Stop trying to impress everyone and stop wasting all of our time. In fact, what are you doing back here? I thought you said your "work is done".
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