I have 2 E77s and would
not buy another. ACTI seems to have cut a lot of corners to pack 10MP in there at that price.
Some problems:
- 10MP images look like they are upscaled from 5mp. You get distinct stairstepping patterns on what should be sharp diagonal lines in the image.
- Digital noise reduction needs to be on for night video to be even partially acceptable, but it significantly degrades image quality during the day.
- WDR has absolutely no function on either of my 2 cams.
- The maximum bit rate is only 6 Mbps.
- The on-screen timestamp is ridiculously small on 10mp video. Even at max bit rate it often gets badly smeared by compression artifacts.
Further, one of my E77s has bad focus that didn't even get fixed after I RMA'd it to ACTI where they supposedly "repaired" it. Last week I replaced it with a Hikvision 2332 (3MP turret) with a 2.8mm lens. This is nearly as wide of a view angle, and the image quality and detail level is much better despite this camera being only about one third the resolution. I moved the ACTI E77 into my garage where the bad focus is less of a problem, but it still is pretty bad.