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“Reviews for Active Webcam, Argus Surveillance DVR and...”

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written by on 17/08/2011

Hi follks, If anyone of you guys have purchase any of the below items, 1) Active Webcam 2) Argus Surveillance DVR 3) Webcam Monitor would you mind telling me your reviews on how you guys think of those product? anything good ones and bad ones, what is your ideal webcam that you would love to purchase and how myuch are you guys willing to pay for such webcams? hope to hear from you guys out there!! Have a great day ahead! ;p

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“Dont wait on Tech Support to get back to you. ”

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written by on 08/03/2011

Dont wait on Tech Support to get back to you.
If camera does not work in demo they wont help.
No response to tech support email.

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Lori827's Comment

Written on: 07/11/2012

trying to find a company or person that got a hold of my credit card number and now a 4.05 charge appears on my account I do not know if this is the company When I call the phone number on my bill, it is a recording from some man with a strong accent and I cant quite understand him, he says something like go to int/c or email tech support etc the charge appears as a INTWEBC com which is located in Florida Please let me know if anyone knows if this is the same place Thanks!

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“This company is a rip off. ”

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written by on 13/10/2010

This company is a rip off.
They sell the program at a discounted rate, but the program does not do what is advertised. ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT FROM THIS COMPANY.
I paid for this program to exactly what I wanted and was supposed to get those features minus the web broadcasting feature. I didnt want that.
I can not run more than one camera at once. I will recognize all 4 of my cameras but will nut run all at once.
The settings are required to be entered each and every time you start the program which is laboring and complicated. It will not remember any settings.
I tell it to save the format in .avi format but it records in their own .awl format that requires a conversion.
I have filled out all their forms, and "whois'd" the company and wrote to everyone on the list. With NO RESPONSE.
There are GREAT ratings all over the net at download sites for this program written by the same person, word for word, saying how great it is and advertising the discount coupon.
The entire thing is a farce.
DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM. WASTE OF MONEY. FRUSTRATION. THE PROGRAM IS NOT THAT GREAT EITHER.

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“I bought int.web cam software it was lousy so I...”

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written by on 25/11/2009

I bought int.web cam software it was lousy so I upgrated it worked Iwant to upgrade again but cant access my account. My cam did woek well but now I downloaded win7 I lost everything. [email protected]

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“Many options for broadcasting... nice options for the...”

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written by on 07/09/2008

Many options for broadcasting... nice options for the html page, love the rewind and playback options... could do with some cool filter effects, but other than that... packed with useful features. Overall a good program, but needs tweaking...

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“Tech support is horrible, the one phone number that...”

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written by glyon12 on 16/11/2007

Tech support is horrible, the one phone number that you can find on the web site is answered by someone whom was rather unhelpful.

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Donnor's Response to glyon12's Review

Written on: 01/10/2008

About Active Web Cam: I purchased the Deluxe and also signed up for the Streaming Broadcasting and it works great and very happy with the program. BUT, there support, I agree with the other review about there support. Hey your lucky at least you got a phone number I looked everywhere on the site and can not fine a phone number. I have sent 4 emails, 2 before I purchased the program and 2 after and have not recieved a answer to any of them. So program is very good but support very bad.

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“It seems as if most major players in this market have...”

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written by martin99 on 13/08/2006

It seems as if most major players in this market have not yet tumbled to the increasing number of webcams and IP cameras in the world being run by the likes of me who don't have the same generous budgets as big businesses. Consequently, finding an inexpensive means of recording the output from one's non-commercial cams is difficult, because the best-known packages are priced at corporate rates and based upon the number of feeds you wish to connect.

However, I've just found the ideal solution to this problem from a Canadian company called Py Software, whose Active Webcam Deluxe application can be had online for around ninety bucks per licence. Full specs of the application are available on Py's web site. So I won't waste space by going into detail here. Instead a brief description of my setup may help you decide if Active Webcam Deluxe is right for you.

I run a webcam site featuring four external analogue cams connected through an AXIS 241QA video server. In addition, I have four AXIS 206 internal cameras looking out the windows, an AXIS 207W monitoring the front entrance, a Sony SNC-M3 monitoring baby and a Panasonic BLC-10 for the playroom. These eleven cams show up as small windows in the Active Webcam interface, but obviously recording all of them at once would strain even a top notch Pentium Core Duo PC with 2Gb of RAM and SCSI hard disks.

Mind you, I've only tried recording four cameras concurrently, and the application handles this task very well. Recording more cameras at the same time will be limited by your hardware - not Active Webcam - and it's easy to switch feeds on and off, thereby reducing bandwidth requirement and increasing the frame capture rate of the cams you need to record. Meanwhile, full-screen mode on individual cams is only a right click of the mouse away.

Recordings can be saved in Active Webcam format, as AVI files or as MPEG's - which is a big bonus for this kind of money. Though I should add that, after recording is stopped, large MPEG files can take a while to be encoded - on my setup anyhow.

The only thing I haven't yet worked out is how to record cameras with Internet (as opposed to LAN) IP addresses. This isn't vital for me, but if it is for you then best confirm with Py Tech Support before buying. Otherwise there's a free trial of the program so you can check it out before shelling out.

In conclusion, I suggest that, when it comes to recording cameras connected to a computer; whether they be IP cams, inexpensive USB webcams or other cameras hooked up to a capture board, then Active Webcam Deluxe from Py Software is extremely competent and quite unbeatable at the price. I urge you to try it.

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