- Mar 20, 2015
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I recently purchased a DS-7608NI-E2/8P NVR from China, for a bit under $300 shipped. It is a genuine US NVR, with all Hikvision logos, color box, and upgradable English firmware. Hardware region is not the base of my question.
I have purchased a few more of these models in the earlier part of 2015, both from within the US and from China, of the same kind. However when I received this new one in January 2016, it looked like a miniature version as it was much narrower width-wise and did not include rack mount ears like its wider counterpart. I asked the seller (XinRay) as to why this was the case and they weren't able to provide an answer aside from that Hikvision made the change and they have no control over it, which I understand fine, it's just that if I were to have some place where it needs rack mounted, I may run into a problem with ears/brackets.
Everything about it works great, in fact I love how small it is considering it went into a set-top style application, but my concern is long term if future installs call for a rack mount setup, how I would go about doing that without fabricating special ears to make it fit.
The wider one in the pic was manufactured 5/2015 and the small one was manufactured not even 3 weeks before I received it, in 12/2015. Same model sticker, same firmware, same features, same everything, except physical dimensions.
Anyone else run into this at all or any idea why? Any input appreciated. Thanks!



I have purchased a few more of these models in the earlier part of 2015, both from within the US and from China, of the same kind. However when I received this new one in January 2016, it looked like a miniature version as it was much narrower width-wise and did not include rack mount ears like its wider counterpart. I asked the seller (XinRay) as to why this was the case and they weren't able to provide an answer aside from that Hikvision made the change and they have no control over it, which I understand fine, it's just that if I were to have some place where it needs rack mounted, I may run into a problem with ears/brackets.
Everything about it works great, in fact I love how small it is considering it went into a set-top style application, but my concern is long term if future installs call for a rack mount setup, how I would go about doing that without fabricating special ears to make it fit.
The wider one in the pic was manufactured 5/2015 and the small one was manufactured not even 3 weeks before I received it, in 12/2015. Same model sticker, same firmware, same features, same everything, except physical dimensions.
Anyone else run into this at all or any idea why? Any input appreciated. Thanks!



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