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Speaker 1: I'm rich Dumuro and this is Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: When you think about a dash cam, you think probably

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Speaker 2: something you'd like to have, but it's a little too

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Speaker 2: complicated in everyday life. Unless you're an uber driver, unless

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Speaker 2: you have an actual use for one, the average person

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Speaker 2: isn't necessarily buying these. But I really love the idea

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Speaker 2: of a dash cam because it does watch everything that's happening.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like your little eye and it gives

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Speaker 2: you some more confidence on the road. The major downside

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Speaker 2: with most dash cams is that they're not very good.

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Speaker 2: The picture quality is not very clear, and getting the

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Speaker 2: video off that dash cam, well, you'll pretty much never

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Speaker 2: do that because it's kind of a pain.

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Speaker 1: Well, enter the Vava cam.

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Speaker 2: I've been testing this out for a couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: now in my car, and I have fallen in love

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Speaker 2: with it. It is the simplest to use dashcam that

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Speaker 2: is actually full.

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Speaker 1: Of a lot of great features.

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Speaker 2: So first off, when you set this thing up, the

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Speaker 2: design of it is great. There's no screen on it,

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Speaker 2: so it's not distracting at all. You have a suction

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Speaker 2: mount to your windshield. Then the actual dash cam is

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Speaker 2: magnetically mounted to the suction mount.

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Speaker 1: So you can remove it.

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Speaker 2: You can swivel it three hundred and sixty degrees, and

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Speaker 2: they even give you a little tool for running all

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Speaker 2: the cables, a little pri tool so you can run

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Speaker 2: the cables clean inside your car, and there's really not

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Speaker 2: a tough part about setting it up. There's also a

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Speaker 2: GPS module that you stick onto your windshield so all

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Speaker 2: of your videos get stamped with exactly where they were taken.

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Speaker 2: So once you have this thing set up, it basically

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Speaker 2: becomes a DVR for your windshield, so it is recording

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Speaker 2: continuous video when you turn on your car, from the

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Speaker 2: moment you turn on your car to the moment you

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Speaker 2: turn off your car, so anything that happens in front

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Speaker 2: of your car, or if you have the camera swiveled

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Speaker 2: inside your cabin of your car, it will capture what's

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Speaker 2: going on. And I have a thirty two gigabyte card

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Speaker 2: in there that will give you about a four hour loop,

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Speaker 2: So when it's done with that four hours, it'll just

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Speaker 2: re record over the first part, kind of like a

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Speaker 2: DVR does.

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Speaker 1: You can get a bigger card if you want. The

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Speaker 1: memory card is sold separately. There's also a feature called

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Speaker 1: a capture button.

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Speaker 2: So there's a little bluetooth button that you stick somewhere

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Speaker 2: in your car. You can put on your windsheet on

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Speaker 2: your dashboard, and if you press that button, if you

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Speaker 2: press it once, it'll take a snapshot, like a little

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Speaker 2: picture of whatever you see outside. You see something interesting,

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Speaker 2: take a snapshot. You want to record a twenty second clip,

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Speaker 2: just press and hold the button for a few seconds

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Speaker 2: and it will now start recording a clip. And the

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Speaker 2: difference between these clips and the DVR functionality is that

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Speaker 2: those never go away, so those will stay on the

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Speaker 2: memory card forever for safekeeping.

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Speaker 1: So if you're trying to capture.

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Speaker 2: Something that you want to remember, or if you just

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Speaker 2: want to capture an event that you don't want deleted,

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Speaker 2: you can go ahead and press the capture button. Now,

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Speaker 2: this is the best part about the Vava cam transferring

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Speaker 2: the video.

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Speaker 1: You never have to.

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Speaker 2: Take an SD card out of this thing. It connects

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Speaker 2: to your phone wirelessly via a Wi Fi network. So

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Speaker 2: once you connect it, you can see a live view

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Speaker 2: of what's on the camera, but you can also go

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Speaker 2: back and comb through the footage. You can do it

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Speaker 2: minute by minute or every three minutes, and you can

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Speaker 2: download any clip that you want right to your smartphone.

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Speaker 2: It's super fast, it's super easy, and it's the best

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Speaker 2: implementation I've ever seen of a dash cam.

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Speaker 1: Because you'll actually download the footage. So you took a

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Speaker 1: cool drive.

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Speaker 2: There are some fog you want to get a little

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Speaker 2: capture of that posted a Facebook. Someone blew through a

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Speaker 2: stop sign, You want to post that and make fun

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Speaker 2: of them.

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Speaker 1: Sure you can do that. And yes, the video is HD.

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Speaker 1: It's high quality.

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Speaker 2: You can make out faces and license plates as well.

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Speaker 2: So I would say my only downside to this camera

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Speaker 2: is that I wish it recorded the front and the

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Speaker 2: back at the same time, or even better yet three

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty degrees. I think that'll come in a

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Speaker 2: future update, but for right now, just having the front

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Speaker 2: of your car is really nice as well.

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Speaker 1: One more feature I want to tell you about the

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Speaker 1: G sensor.

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Speaker 2: There is a sensor inside so if your car is

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Speaker 2: hit while it's parked, or if someone jostles your car

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Speaker 2: even it will trigger a twenty second recording. So that

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Speaker 2: means that your car is basically protected even when it's parked.

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Speaker 2: So you can adjust the sensitivity of the G sensor.

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Speaker 2: That feature is not turned on by default, So if

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Speaker 2: you get one of these, definitely make sure you remember

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Speaker 2: to turn that on. And the battery inside the device

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Speaker 2: lasts about thirty days. Keep in mind you do have

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Speaker 2: to keep this thing powered by connecting it to what

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Speaker 2: used to be called the cigarette lighter in your car,

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Speaker 2: but now is just the DC adapter, So there is

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Speaker 2: you know, continuous power through that, but then when your

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Speaker 2: car is off, it is self powered through a battery inside.

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Speaker 1: There you have it. Vava Dashcam really really like this thing.

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Speaker 2: You just feel confident being on the road when you

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Speaker 2: have a dash cam. It's it's just a nice feeling

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Speaker 2: to have. And this is the one that you will

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Speaker 2: actually use. It's not distracting, and I find that it's

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Speaker 2: really the best one I've ever tried.

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Speaker 1: Normally it sells for one hundred and thirty dollars.

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Speaker 2: I talked to Vava, I said, look, can you get

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Speaker 2: this price down to under one hundred dollars for listeners

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Speaker 2: of rich On Tech And they did. They caught it

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Speaker 2: to under ninety six dollars. So if you want the

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Speaker 2: code for this Vava dashcam, you could order on Amazon.

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Speaker 2: Just go to rich On Tech dot tv and look

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Speaker 2: for the Vava cam, have a great day.