WEBVTT - Vava Dash Cam Review: Useful Features at a Great Price

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<v Speaker 1>I'm rich Dumuro and this is Rich on Tech.

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<v Speaker 2>When you think about a dash cam, you think probably

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>you have an actual use for one, the average person

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<v Speaker 2>isn't necessarily buying these. But I really love the idea

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

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<v Speaker 2>It's kind of like your little eye and it gives

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<v Speaker 2>you some more confidence on the road. The major downside

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<v Speaker 2>with most dash cams is that they're not very good.

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<v Speaker 2>The picture quality is not very clear, and getting the

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<v Speaker 2>video off that dash cam, well, you'll pretty much never

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<v Speaker 2>do that because it's kind of a pain.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, enter the Vava cam.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been testing this out for a couple of weeks

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<v Speaker 2>now in my car, and I have fallen in love

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<v Speaker 2>with it. It is the simplest to use dashcam that

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<v Speaker 2>is actually full.

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<v Speaker 1>Of a lot of great features.

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<v Speaker 2>So first off, when you set this thing up, the

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<v Speaker 2>design of it is great. There's no screen on it,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's not distracting at all. You have a suction

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<v Speaker 2>mount to your windshield. Then the actual dash cam is

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<v Speaker 2>magnetically mounted to the suction mount.

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<v Speaker 1>So you can remove it.

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<v Speaker 2>You can swivel it three hundred and sixty degrees, and

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<v Speaker 2>they even give you a little tool for running all

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<v Speaker 2>the cables, a little pri tool so you can run

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<v Speaker 2>the cables clean inside your car, and there's really not

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<v Speaker 2>a tough part about setting it up. There's also a

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<v Speaker 2>GPS module that you stick onto your windshield so all

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<v Speaker 2>of your videos get stamped with exactly where they were taken.

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<v Speaker 2>So once you have this thing set up, it basically

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<v Speaker 2>becomes a DVR for your windshield, so it is recording

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<v Speaker 2>continuous video when you turn on your car, from the

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<v Speaker 2>moment you turn on your car to the moment you

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<v Speaker 2>turn off your car, so anything that happens in front

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<v Speaker 2>of your car, or if you have the camera swiveled

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<v Speaker 2>inside your cabin of your car, it will capture what's

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<v Speaker 2>going on. And I have a thirty two gigabyte card

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<v Speaker 2>in there that will give you about a four hour loop,

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<v Speaker 2>So when it's done with that four hours, it'll just

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<v Speaker 2>re record over the first part, kind of like a

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<v Speaker 2>DVR does.

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<v Speaker 1>You can get a bigger card if you want. The

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<v Speaker 1>memory card is sold separately. There's also a feature called

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<v Speaker 1>a capture button.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's a little bluetooth button that you stick somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>in your car. You can put on your windsheet on

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<v Speaker 2>your dashboard, and if you press that button, if you

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<v Speaker 2>press it once, it'll take a snapshot, like a little

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<v Speaker 2>picture of whatever you see outside. You see something interesting,

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<v Speaker 2>take a snapshot. You want to record a twenty second clip,

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<v Speaker 2>just press and hold the button for a few seconds

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<v Speaker 2>and it will now start recording a clip. And the

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<v Speaker 2>difference between these clips and the DVR functionality is that

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<v Speaker 2>those never go away, so those will stay on the

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<v Speaker 2>memory card forever for safekeeping.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're trying to capture.

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<v Speaker 2>Something that you want to remember, or if you just

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<v Speaker 2>want to capture an event that you don't want deleted,

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<v Speaker 2>you can go ahead and press the capture button. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>this is the best part about the Vava cam transferring

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<v Speaker 2>the video.

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<v Speaker 1>You never have to.

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<v Speaker 2>Take an SD card out of this thing. It connects

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<v Speaker 2>to your phone wirelessly via a Wi Fi network. So

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<v Speaker 2>once you connect it, you can see a live view

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<v Speaker 2>of what's on the camera, but you can also go

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<v Speaker 2>back and comb through the footage. You can do it

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<v Speaker 2>minute by minute or every three minutes, and you can

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<v Speaker 2>download any clip that you want right to your smartphone.

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<v Speaker 2>It's super fast, it's super easy, and it's the best

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<v Speaker 2>implementation I've ever seen of a dash cam.

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<v Speaker 1>Because you'll actually download the footage. So you took a

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<v Speaker 1>cool drive.

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<v Speaker 2>There are some fog you want to get a little

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<v Speaker 2>capture of that posted a Facebook. Someone blew through a

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<v Speaker 2>stop sign, You want to post that and make fun

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<v Speaker 2>of them.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure you can do that. And yes, the video is HD.

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<v Speaker 1>It's high quality.

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<v Speaker 2>You can make out faces and license plates as well.

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<v Speaker 2>So I would say my only downside to this camera

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<v Speaker 2>is that I wish it recorded the front and the

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<v Speaker 2>back at the same time, or even better yet three

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and sixty degrees. I think that'll come in a

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<v Speaker 2>future update, but for right now, just having the front

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<v Speaker 2>of your car is really nice as well.

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<v Speaker 1>One more feature I want to tell you about the

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<v Speaker 1>G sensor.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a sensor inside so if your car is

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<v Speaker 2>hit while it's parked, or if someone jostles your car

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<v Speaker 2>even it will trigger a twenty second recording. So that

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

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<v Speaker 2>So you can adjust the sensitivity of the G sensor.

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<v Speaker 2>That feature is not turned on by default, So if

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<v Speaker 2>you get one of these, definitely make sure you remember

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<v Speaker 2>to turn that on. And the battery inside the device

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<v Speaker 2>lasts about thirty days. Keep in mind you do have

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<v Speaker 2>to keep this thing powered by connecting it to what

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<v Speaker 2>used to be called the cigarette lighter in your car,

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<v Speaker 2>but now is just the DC adapter, So there is

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<v Speaker 2>you know, continuous power through that, but then when your

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<v Speaker 2>car is off, it is self powered through a battery inside.

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<v Speaker 1>There you have it. Vava Dashcam really really like this thing.

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<v Speaker 2>You just feel confident being on the road when you

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<v Speaker 2>have a dash cam. It's it's just a nice feeling

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<v Speaker 2>to have. And this is the one that you will

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

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<v Speaker 2>really the best one I've ever tried.

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<v Speaker 1>Normally it sells for one hundred and thirty dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>I talked to Vava, I said, look, can you get

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<v Speaker 2>this price down to under one hundred dollars for listeners

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<v Speaker 2>of rich On Tech And they did. They caught it

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<v Speaker 2>to under ninety six dollars. So if you want the

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<v Speaker 2>code for this Vava dashcam, you could order on Amazon.

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<v Speaker 2>Just go to rich On Tech dot tv and look

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<v Speaker 2>for the Vava cam, have a great day.