Review: Vantrue® N1 1080p DashCam w Parking Monitor - NT96650 & AR0330

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VANTRUE sent this camera for review. Thank you Joe @JIVAN.
It's available for purchase at amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/B01A4YUITY
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Summary:
Vantrue N1 has very good daytime videos and night videos are decent as well.
Audio is clear without distortion.
Parking monitor works good with power supply.
Mount has charging port so it can be taken out of the vehicle without messing with cable.
Car charger has additional USB port so it allows another gadget to plug in.
It hangs from the mount so it's not very didscrete but it's pretty small in size and mostly black color so that helps.
Loop times are 1, 2 or 5 minutes so the standard 3 minute is not an option.
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Detail Review:
Main Features:
1080P HD (+HDR), 1.5" LCD Car Dashboard Camera Recorder with one press Parking Monitor, 170° Wide Angle, G-Sensor & Dual Car Charger.
18 months warranty.
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Package Contents:

1. Vantrue N1 dashcam,
2. Suction cup mount with integrated mini USB charging port (makes taking camera off easier),
3. Car charger with extra USB port (very nice feature),
4. Mini USB PC cable,
5. User Manual,
6. Thank you/quick start card.

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Unboxing video:

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Side-by-side with mini 0902:

Pressing the down button for more than 3 seconds switches to Parking Monitor mode, aka motion sensor mode.
M button also acts as Event button.
Up button turns off/on microphone.
Very easy layout of the buttons.

Screenshot button on the top, record stop/start button in the middle and power on the bottom.

Car charger with extra USB port (very nice feature):

 

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Vantrue N1 Folders and Files:
Folder structure is very simple.
VIDEO>NORMAL
All video files are in the NORMAL folder.
Files have date and time so easy to find particular file.

VIDEO>EVENT
Triggered/emergency files. It saves the whole clip but it doesn't duplicate it in NORMAL folder.




File size and VBR: A 5 minute 1080p @ 30fps file is around 500mb in size and overall VBR is 13.7 mbps.Duration : 5mn 0s
Overall bit rate : 13.7 Mbps
Video Bit rate : 11.9 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Audio Bit rate : 512 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 18.3 MiB (4%)
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PC connection only has 'Mass storage' option.

 

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Snowy daytime video screenshots:
All areas are in good focus.
Audio is good and loud, sounds pretty good and understandable.





















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More daytime/evening screenshots...

Against the sunlight:

 

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Snowy daytime/evening videos:

Against the Sun:

Evening:

 

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Parking monitor function: Parking monitor can be turned in settings or directly by pressing down button for more than 3 seconds.
Once it's on, there will be a P icon displayed on the LCD screen.
The LCD screen has icons for quite a bit of settings.


Few parking monitor videos:
Vehicles across the parking median...

People...

Vehicles right in front...

Nothing moving so probably what triggered it is already gone.
This camera doesn't have pre-buffer afaik so if something comes and goes in few seconds, it won't be in the video.

 

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Night video screenshots:
It's cold and there is some condensation that causes some streaking of the lights.
I'll test again when it's warmer.











Night videos:
Getting some pizza late at night.

 

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More night time video screenshots: No light residential areas to streets with traffic lights to strip mall...


One thing to note is when there's red light, whole footage has slight orange/reddish hue overall as seen in the screenshot below:

 

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Night videos: From residential area to lighted streets to strip mall and back...

 

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Beautiful days followed after the snow and here are few videos and screenshots.
Audio replaced...

Sun against the snow...

Bright and Sunny day:

Night video:

Screenshots from videos:















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Overall Impression:
Vantrue N1 has very good daytime videos and night videos are decent as well.
Audio is clear without distortion.
Parking monitor works good with power supply.
Mount has charging port so it can be taken out of the vehicle without messing with cable.
Car charger has additional USB port so it allows another gadget to plug in.
It hangs from the mount so it's not very didscrete but it's pretty small in size and mostly black color so that helps.