Not sure if English is your second language or you just need to read things twice before responding.
First language, and I get what you’re saying, but it’s still DEAD WRONG
What I’m saying and others as well that done all the tests is that even if image quality is slightly better or other options it doesn’t matter in real life and in servers no purpose.
Speaking with authority doesn’t make you a subject matter expert.
Optics matter. Cars are fast paced moving objects. Yes, Any camera is better than NO CAMERA, everything else you say lacks a factual basis.
Why not buy a 1980s camcorder with VHS and mount to front dashboard? It records, right?
Video quality matters. Lighting changes constantly and quality image sensors need keep up. A dash cam is your insurance policy.
It matters if fault can’t clearly be determined or license plates from an accident are unreadable.
Poor quality dashcams make objects blurry at night (motion blur) and overexposed in the daytime. Poor quality dashcams may not capture a readable license plate in a hit and run. Poor quality dashcams may not be durable or reliable and die when you need it most.
I’m speaking out of having used and tested several crap and good dashcams over the years as I myself learned.
you are not buying a camera to record your family or a movie that every single pixel counts. And paying double the price to get 2% better image quality is worth it.
Go ahead buy a crap camera. Your perogative. Price point matters when it becomes the difference between capturing a car or license plate in an accident and lacking a clear video or entire footage to prove your case. Yes, those cheap cameras may let you down either by not recording reliably, failing to lock accident footage after impact via G-Force Sensor, rendering unclear video, or having no to crap parking mode reliability.
Again, I’d personally never own a cam without real time live parking mode that stores to dash cam.
My car has been hit and backed into a few times, and thanks to Viofo’s real time parking mode recording, I caught entire incident. Street Guardian Cameras offer a similar feature
Sure the drawback is unlike thinkware / Blackvue, you cannot remote into car to view cameras or pull off footage (these cameras use a 4g modem with sim card). However, both these cameras also don’t offer live parking recording beyond 1 to 2 frames a second. So while Blackvue and Thinkware do have network connectivity, Viofo only stores footage locally to an MicroSD card.
In my opinion that benefit is no trade off for live action recording when parked
you are buying a dash cam that all it needs to do is to show a car and object to big that pixel matters.
Since it’s clear you aren’t understanding this information all too well, I’ll simplify the explanation.
Take you smart phone, open up the camera app. Now, rotate the phone up and down back and forth, snapping a picture in the process.
The image will be blurry with some parts identifiable and other parts less so.
The cars around you are fast moving, which at night will result in bad motion blur with cheap dashcams.
In the day, a bright sun may wash out image and make it so cheaper dashcams don’t make out pertinent details (license plates, clear image of vehicle, etc).
Remember, you’re relying on the camera for hit and runs and accidents at all speeds.
Fitcams are low end products. Better than nothing, but better to spend a few hundred bucks on something you can trust than buy something cheap and have it let you down.