Viofo A329 Review

safedrivesolutions said:
Viofo A329 vs Viofo A139 Pro dash cam night time HDR footage
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Will be nice if you will want to make the same night test by using the 1034 and 1119 firmware for A139 Pro.
 
safedrivesolutions said:
Okay here is the comparison at night ov Viofo A129 Pro vs Viofo A329

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A129 pro peripheral is good at seeing clouds and black dots. A329 is also good at reading license plates and surrounding text.
A129 pro wdr uses A329 hdr.

We will reach the ideal level when we have both good peripheral vision and read license plates.

Accordingly, what if WDR works at the top of the video and HDR works at the bottom (at plate level)? Maybe A129 pro can't do this, but can A329 handle it?
 
Has anybody compared the A329-rear-camera to the rear camera of the A229 Pro yet? I noticed a small improvement there as well.
But unfortunately not enough time to edit it for a comparision now since I have to sort out video material from 13 different dashcams first.
Will do a video about it in a few weeks.
 

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DashcamDriversGermany said:
Has anybody compared the A329-rear-camera to the rear camera of the A229 Pro yet?
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I have a video that contains nighttime footage from the A329 rear, A229 Pro rear, Thinkware U3000 rear and BlackVue DR970X rear dash cameras.

I have a link to that video in this post:
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Post in thread 'VIOFO A329 2CH - Testing / Review - RCG'

This video contains nighttime video samples from the new VIOFO A329 2CH dash camera. I compare the A329 video footage with the VIOFO A229 Pro 2CH, Thinkware U3000 2CH and the older BlackVue DR970X 2CH dash camera.

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ogzogz said:
A129 pro peripheral is good at seeing clouds and black dots. A329 is also good at reading license plates and surrounding text.
A129 pro wdr uses A329 hdr.

We will reach the ideal level when we have both good peripheral vision and read license plates.

Accordingly, what if WDR works at the top of the video and HDR works at the bottom (at plate level)? Maybe A129 pro can't do this, but can A329 handle it?
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There is no reason why you can't have both HDR and WDR on the full image, but the video isn't going to end up great quality when you squash that huge range of light levels into an 8 bit video file. I think you will have to wait for the 10 bit dashcams to arrive to properly see both very bright and very dark areas of the image in reasonable detail.

WDR only at the top of the image is not going to look good, the A129 Pro is not much good at illuminated signs.

I think the A129 Pro sensor actually has proper HDR, it would be interesting to see the result with an updated processor, probably not as good as the A329 at night, but the A129 Pro does have an excellent sensor for daylight.
 
5 camera box mentioned sounds good (with cloud please)
 
mentadent said:
5 camera box mentioned sounds good (with cloud please)
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I don't believe the box solution is going to be viable long-term.

I've banged on about it a few times and so have others here, like why can security cameras operate so well under heat and stress but not dashcams. It looks like we are FINALLY starting to see better chipsets from Novatek in devices like the A329. Sure, the architecture is like 15 years old but it's a start.

This should alleviate a lot of the heating concerns especially now that a lot of manufacturers have got access to Starvis 2 sensors now, and we'll be recording at 4K multi channel whether we like it or not lol. Therefore there won't be a need for boxes (increased manufacturing cost to the dashcam makers).
 
safedrivesolutions said:
Tunnel Tests Videos are coming this week with Viofo A229 Pro (Tuesday), Viofo A139 Pro (Wednesday) and Viofo A129 Pro (Thursday) all featuring against the new A329.
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Even that single freeze-frame shows some of the improvements in the A329, and also some of its limitations in that challenging location.
 
safedrivesolutions said:
Viofo A329 vs Viofo A229 pro Dash Cam Time Lapse Parking Mode
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Nice video, have to wonder why @viofo is not advertising the 40% longer parking mode record time from the A329 2ch low bitrate parking mode and 68% longer parking mode record time in 2ch timelapse parking mode? Seems quite a significant improvement from the more powerful processor to me!
 
safedrivesolutions said:
Viofo A329 vs Viofo A229 pro Dash Cam Time Lapse Parking Mode
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In your table you have Timelapse 1fps SNV "coming soon" for the A229 Pro. Have Viofo advised they are bringing this feature to the A229 Pro?
 
safedrivesolutions said:
Viofo A329 vs Viofo A229 pro Dash Cam Time Lapse Parking Mode
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I like the brighter image in the A329 SNV, but the A229 Pro has noticeably less blur which could make a difference in some situations, perhaps for identifying someone who bounced a basketball on your windshield at night!
 
TonyM said:
In your table you have Timelapse 1fps SNV "coming soon" for the A229 Pro. Have Viofo advised they are bringing this feature to the A229 Pro?
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I received a sample firmware for the A229 Pro. Where i did test the current draw and it was low like A329. However i did not test whether the video quality was the same.
 
mchl0607 said:
May I know if the A329 knows when to jump into low-bit rate parking mode when engine is off when hooked up to a battery pack?
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your ignition gets turned off and battery pack then goes into parking mode.
 
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