BlackVue DR750S

Bought and installed this in new car by car dealer 2019. Always worked. But after a recent accident in March, I realised that no videos were captured since January this year. But the cam still announcing "starting normal recording". Replaced a new SD card, updated the firmware. Still no videos captured. "starting normal recording" announcement as… Read more

usual. While trying to look into this, also noticed the rear camera LED was not on. From SD card, rear video files were intermittently missing. Frustrated the appropriate warning message to alert me. Is this the life of the dash cam?

Waste of money. Failed within months. Was using Blackvue sd card, as requested by blackvue. I then spent a lot of money on another pro branded sd recommended by blackvue on their support page. Failed within weeks. Unit keeps rebooting when driving. New cards work as the should for a short while and back to rebooting. What a waste of a lot of… Read more

money. DON'T BOTHER WITH BLACKVUE - EXPENSIVE AND RELIABLY UNRELIABLE. Disappointing blackvue, but the reality is that the company is the same as so many other companies, supplying questionable products. I really hope blackvue gets the same problem as their product provided me - reboot. Maybe the cloud based recording systems function fine (maybe) but sd card units have a 100% failure rate for me. In summary, I have an expensive dashcam system that can't be relied upon to capture the one thing it's supposed to capture - nice. Thanks blackvue, will done. I'm happy to get my money back, I'll happily send this glitchy unit back in exchange for my money. I should have searched product review prior to purchase - a must these days. Here's BlackVue's retort... you won't believe it... We actually hadn't asked you to spend more money, rather we wanted to explore options to help you. We offer a refurbished replacement service where units of this age can be sent to us and we can replace them, we normally charge $180 for these replacements but I was going to be happy to waive that free and provide a postage paid label to send it in to us and we can see if we do have one available to replace yours with when we get it. However some transparency first that a refurbished replacement would be of a similar age and it still would not have the lifespan of a new unit, therefore I can't guarantee the lifespan you'll obtain from such a remedy, I also can't guarantee that we will have replacements available at the time we get your unit, since these units were discontinued some time ago we've had a dwindling supply for some time. But, I'd like to help however I can.... Could you please send through your proof of purchase or receipt from that purchase? You might have bought it new to the best of your knowledge two years ago, but the unit really is quite old. 3 years ago Australian dealers were selling the DR770X, that means since when the DR750S was last manufactured, we released the DR750X, then the DR750X Plus, then the DR770X, and approximately a year after the release of that you bought that DR750S, that is surprising to me and the team here, yes, we would not purport it to be new at all. You wrote "What are you really offering me and more importantly, why are your products being sold as "new" when there are 6-9 years of age? That's ordinary but it is something rates should know - don't you agree?" It's not BlackVues choice when or through whom units are sold, we act a wholesaler here in Australia, realistically if a retailer were to buy a unit from us now and choose to sell it ten years from now, that is at their discretion, and at the discretion of buyers who may wish to purchase the given product. In another way, if I were to buy an iPhone today, keep it, but sell it in 5 years time, it's not within Apple's purview to stop me from selling that item. I hope that clarifies. To my knowledge it's in nobodys interest to retain old items though, that's why there are sellout sales on old stock so that it can be used up and new stock can be brought in.... You can pass it onto Product Review at your discretion if that's your prerogative, my prerogative is just to help you how I can. We try and be an open book and help everybody in Australia where we can. You mentioned you paid $800, 2 years ago, the image you've attached shows $729 about 15 months ago, do you happen to have a receipt that mentions the product you bought by name? May I ask if you've spoken with your retailer about this? What was the outcome?

In short: the app is crap, camera is ok. It happened so that I had to connect the dash cam to a freshly installed app. Tried bluetooth connection - no luck. WiFi - didn't work either. The app requires internet connection on start (what for!?!) and if you don't have it - there's just no option to connect your camera. 1 hour spent, no result. Show details

Ehhh not worth the big price – Expensive and really not worth it. Installed myself and unless you run to constant battery (which will kill your car battery) there is no accident beeper, no motion sensor or really anything unless the car is on… therefore pointless for parking or damage when you’re not driving. Easy enough app to use. But imagine paying a subscription fee for… Read more

something every month just to use a GPS tracker which was boosted as built in… yeah built in for extra money.

Crap dash cams – I have the blackvue in my new car and they're crap. In my old car I had ones from JB that my dad installed and they were alot better than blackvue. Blackvue are not easy to use like other brands. They want you to sign up for cloud storage too which they don't tell when purchasing a new car. Waste of money. Show details

Absolute Garbage, don't waste your money!! – Had these dashcams installed as they were very highly rated at the time. Cost $1000 installed. They were great and did what they were supposed up until they updated the app and tried to turn it into some kind of vid sharing social network. They made it hard to access your videos whilst forcing cloud users into opting in to sharing live dashcam… Read more

footage with the rest of the world - clearly a massive breach of privacy. But that wasn't the worst of it, the new app logs you out, forced you to create an account, it constantly has errors such as "this user account belongs to someone else" or "this dashcam isn't registered" all the while shoving a nag screen begging for more money to use the cloud service and consequently pay the monthly fee every damn time you open the app .. its literally the first thing to you see plus the errors happen every single time you open the app.

I didn't buy the cams to watch some guys garage on the other side of the planet, I bought them to keep a record of incidents on the road, the new app is so hard to navigate just to see my own footage it makes the dashcams unusable if you don't want to pull the memorycard and use a computer every time you want to access your footage!!

I'm completely and utterly sick of this nonsense app and all the issues it comes with. Paid out $1000 and they're begging for more money every time I try access my cams footage via the app!! Blackvue can stick their $19 monthly cloud access fee up where the sun don't shine.

Clearly they're only interested in making a profit and not concerned at all about customer satisfaction or privacy, it seems they couldn't even be bothered testing out their apps, just want to turn your footage into entertainment for the rest of the world and nag you for more money.

You can't even go back to using the old app as they automatically check for updates each time you open them so you're forced to use the new crap.

Seriously considering pulling the cams out and replacing them with a different brand even though they're only a few months old!!

A pity really as the cam hardware does exactly what its supposed to do.

*Edit 2 years on* These dashcams are utterly useless now, I never had an issue with cams using the old app version, but this new app has been nothing but problems. Still two freakin years later if I want to access footage using my phone it won't connect to my cameras using the apps wifi connection, I have to plug and unplug the power cable to the dashcams repeatedly to get it to connect to the app to access footage, once it took over 12 times til the wifi would connect, it took over an hour just to get one minute of footage off my dashcams. Imagine having to do that after an accident!! Not everyone carries a laptop around with them 24/7 to get the footage off the memory card.

These dashcams are a stinking pile of garbage.

Very poor app quality – Very poor app quality. also they don’t believed me. About app poor quality. I think wasting money and wasting time. if anyone going to buy Blackvue Dash came. I’m very upset because I spend lot of money on cameras. But not working properly. Because got issues with dash came. But now got issues with app. Blackvue customer support was told me was… Read more

issue with my brand new iPhone 14 pro max. Not with dash came. Also they replaced few time dash came. But they told me app work with android phone not with iPhone. But when I got dash came was retailer shop guy told blackvue dash came work with iPhones and android phone. But now not working at all.if anyone go to any Blackvue retailers shops to buy any blackvue dash please.. check again because wasting time and money. I bought dash came from Autoburn and they told to me 2 or 3 years warranty. but after two months start issues with dash came. Autoburn guy told they can’t do anything. I have to call Blackvue customer service

LTE version – I purchased the LTE version of this device (DR750-2CH LTE) to connect my car's head unit to the cloud (mostly for Spotify). It has a limit of 1 wifi connection, but that was fine for my requirements. I was initially disappointed with myself because I was told it did not pass through internet to wifi devices, and I had not done enough research.… Read more ·  1

The cloud features are good but was not worth paying $150/year for a 4G SIM card alone.

Much to my pleasure, I had updated the firmware and found the internet is being passed to my head unit! So now I have a cloud connect dashcam and also a cloud connected head unit. Very happy.

It is and advertised as FHD so don't expect to vision to be ultra clear. If you need plates, get a an ultra HD version.

You should probably get a Battery Pack for it. I didn't and opted for the Power Magic Pro instead. It means I have to avoid some features. For example, I've configured my setup to cut out at 6 hours and I have it set to timelapse to save battery.

I gave Blackvue 1 less star because the LTE options only support Vodafone. Vodafone is a joke to deal with - not Blackvue's fault that they are hopeless, but kind of their fault that I now have to deal with Vodafone. I'm a Telstra customer and it would have been better if I could data share my account with the dashcam (I'd get more data and would only have to pay $5/month).

I also found the Blackvue support team were very helpful and were accessible in live chat during standard office hours. They also responded promptly to my emails.

Refuses to work on the cloud – How easy was it to set up and use this camera? Fiddley but doable. I also installed a hard wiring kit so it works while the car is parked. How would you describe the quality of the recorded footage? Excellent. I did have a bit of glare from the dash on the screen but I fixed this by getting some polarised lenses for both cameras. How satisfied… Read more

are you with the connectivity of the dash cam? Completely dissatisfied. It connected to the cloud (via wifi hotspot) once and never again. I've followed tech supports dirrections and they can't figure it out either. Keep going around in circles trying the same fixes.

Now my phone won't connect via wifi anymore either.