road hawk ftw

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I think Owain bought one a few months ago, might be worth sending him a PM.

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The Evo thread was what got me thinking but a lot of reviews say the picture quality isn't really very good. I've been looking at some HD ones too.

These seem to have the GPS stuff like the road hawk but in HD and it looks better quality too.

http://www.blackvuehd.co.uk/BlackVue_DR380G_HD.php

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Will the road hawk not have more features for your particular needs that outweigh the luxury, but not the necessity of HD.

A road hawk presumably overwrites over time unless removed to look back over after an incident or whatever, whereas a go pro or the likes will have hours and hours of peaceful footage which will need to be cleared and started each time you set off. I was under the impression the road hawk starts up automatically under ignition and if the car was knocked/towed. Whereas you can bet the time you flip a motorist over your bonnet you'll have forgotten to hit record and miss out on the HD image of someone s**tting themselves mid air.

The GPS and speed recording of you hitting them at a legal limit will be more of a perk than not being able to prove you were in the right.

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RoadHawk DC-1 is what you need, that's the one I have. Easy to install, easy to set up, get the big 16GB memory card and it'll record hours worth on a loop. If you see something you want to keep (dwarf pushing wheelchair across road, etc) it has a big Event button you press, and that 30 seconds or so of video won't be overwritten until you delete it.

Also it records sound, but you can turn that off if you spent a lot of the time in the car singing along to the radio of shouting at idiots like I do.

Takes 30 seconds or so to get GPS signal, install software on your computer and plug in the memory card and you'll get all your clips with a little Google Maps next to it showing where you were and your speed.

Only downside is it doesn't embed your speed onto the actual video file, so you need the software to support your speed. Don't worry about the lack of quality, you're trying to catch people pulling out in front of you, you're not filming Transformers 4.

Well worth getting one, makes me feel so much happier on the road knowing if I got pulled over for doing speeds I didn't do (as happened before) or if someone hits me, you can be as cocky as you like to said copper/3rd party.

Unless of course you're a terrible driver, in which case it'll only serve to prove you were speeding or the collision was your fault.

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Ah yes I agree, but I don't think you will or can. I spent quite a long time searching around (albeit a few months ago) and the lack of HD was more than countered by the ease-of-use and the GPS.

If you find anything better for the price let me know, but the DC-1 is the de-facto for a good reason.

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It would, but with a decent card you're still talking hours of footage, and you don't really need to keep it; even having the last five minutes is more than enough.

It's not for trackdays or to keep the video, it's just there to make sure you catch the point that dick on his phone in the 3-Series hasn't checked his blind spot.

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Ah sorry, missed that. Looks good actually, would be interested to see how well it works but if it works as well as it says, go for it.

The problem with these things is that you really don't know until you try. The resolution looks good, but cameras with tiny lenses are always pretty poor, the DC-1 is rubbish at night.

Get it bought, get it fitted, post up some footage. I did consider that you'd actually want one in the back window as well to catch idiots running into the back of you (although I know that's less of an issue because it's almost always considered their fault anyway) so if that one was much better I'd consider moving my DC-1 to the back.

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Yeah, get it ordered. Then we can crash into each other and send both our footage to the insurance companies, let them decide which is best. Whoever has the worst footage foots the bill and loses their no claims bonus.

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