The 10-8 Video System was designed with some very important goals in mind:

Reliability: Enclosed in an all metal casing, our Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is designed specifically for mobile use. With no moving parts, it is able to withstand a much higher degree of bumps and vibrations than most of the higher priced systems on the market today. By eliminating all moving parts in the recording process, our system will still be recording during the critical times when you really need it. The older systems that used any form of video tapes would often show static or blank out at critical moments. This was due to the fact that the video tape was moving across a recording head that was spinning at a high rate of speed. Not real reliable when chasing a suspect off road or over curbs! Now in the age of digital recording, most of the products on the market today have designed their systems around hard drives. While certainly an improvement over video tape in many ways, they too are very susceptible to hard bumps and vibrations. Ask any computer technician what the last thing any computer with a hard drive does when it is turned off or put in standby: The heads inside the hard drive are parked in a location to prevent damage to your data should the computer get bumped or moved! These systems are asking a computer to keep recording during a bumpy high speed chase or off road encounter. Certainly there are ways to mount and vibration dampen the drive to help reduce the chances of losing critical evidence. But you can not eliminate it. With our no moving parts recording system our recording media has been tested to continue recording up to a 50g impact! In addition, the electronics are protected by a robust relay system with a 5 second delay to protect the electronics during vehicle start and over/under voltage conditions. Yet the DVR is designed to operate safely with voltages as high as 32v
Admissible Evidence: Defense attorneys will always want to attack video evidence. In particular, digital video that is recorded in a format that is easily manipulated on a computer. Our system records in a proprietary format that can not be manipulated with any commercial video editing software. The software included with our system is extremely easy to use and can be used for viewing and saving videos, but they can not be edited. Individual events can be saved on your office computer, and the proprietary format is retained for evidence use in court. But you are given the option of saving a file in a common format for sharing or teaching if desired.

Modular Design: By keeping the system modular in 4 small components, we have a system that is very easy to install and maintain. Should any of the 4 components fail or have a problem, it can be swapped out in a matter of minutes! Our system is not only one of the most reliable on the market, it is also one of the smallest! And our 10-8 Video system is not 'vehicle specific' as many of the video systems are today. Our 10-8 Video system can be installed in any vehicle with a windshield! Many of the systems on the market today have been designed into 1 or 2 major components. This makes installation and problem solving much more difficult.


Affordability: Our 10-8 Video System was designed for the small departments that do not have access to the kind of funding the larger departments have access to. Most of the major video systems on the market today target their product to larger departments where they can get orders for a large number of systems at once. They have a great deal of overhead, travel, outside sales people and large mark-ups that results in systems that are 3-5 times the price of our 10-8 Video System!