@nowandthen I will give you a good example. In my area, there is a package thief that hits every few weeks, often a small glimpse of the car on people's Ring doorbell video. This thief steals from multiple houses and is always driving the same Small RED car.
I have no idea when they may have...
DRZmaui - My Lorex 32 channel NVR works well with Dahua and many different Hikvision/Clones. Sometimes when I click in the viewer to see the full stream it has issues, but the recordings are perfect. (Lorex OEMs their from Dahua anyway)