Department of Homeland security has banned Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Hikvision, is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment for civilian and military purposes, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Its parent company makes about 90% of all the DVR and camera systems in existence.

This is why I am probably going to end up building my own. As in stand alone mode its not a critical. However, you hook these to the internet.. Its possible the Chinese military is seeing all your video feeds as a pile of them use those p2p connections with Chinese own domains hosting those servers.

Thus why the Homeland security banned them. They are banned in all local and federal government buildings along with military bases. The FCC even revised it further and stop short of telling people to remove them if they have them installed.

So its a major bummer as nobody else mfg this type of equipment. Its probably the reason a lot of these cameras and systems are sold so cheaply.. Free surveillance for the Chinese state sponsored government.

This is hikivision only. The real kicker is there isn't a list of approved equipment. which makes the issue worse.

So you might have to use on of those 6 channel cameras systems. :/ For what I want those wont work.