Pretty Good – I purchased this unit for a second car, after having had a DR450 for a couple of months. After an initial issue with the performance of the DR590, Blackvue were happy to replace the unit. The DR590 has a better lens than the DR450 and the picture is certainly clearer than the DR450, however so far, this clearer picture can only be obtained by watching the vision via media player rather than on the Blackvue program. I don't know if this is a problem for others or not. While this is not particularly ideal, it's not the end of the world.
The only other issue I have with it is that the parking mode for this camera has constantly, at random, registered impacts whilst in parking mode, despite being in the garage overnight sometimes or outside my front door or in other areas where nothing could have impacted the vehicle. I have reduced the sensitivity of the camera from the factory settings but it has still continued to a lesser extent. If it wasn't for this, I would rate it good to excellent.
I have checked the impact that the camera is detecting and it is nothing. The most recent was when I sat in the car for a while checking my phone, whilst waiting to pick someone up. I departed the location to go and do something else, instead of waiting, and the camera told me an impact had occurred, despite no movement having taken place. No doors had been opened, no nothing.
There are two issues with this incorrect reporting: the first is that the DR450, whilst in the same car, never gave false impact detection reports. The other is that the DR590 does it randomly, (both the initial DR590 I purchased and the replacement unit I received). Sometimes a door can be opened and closed with no report (assuming the doors may be setting it off) and other times, after coming off parking mode, it reports an impact. The down side is that I ignore the reports but one day it may be relevant and I could miss the event.
I'm also curious why the date on the recordings is now 10 days out of whack. It was correctly set but is now showing today's recordings (16/06) as 03/06.
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Hi Half Happy, Thanks for taking the time to review your BlackVue DR590-1CH. We have had some feedback regrading the BlackVue player and that some 3rd party players are giving better video playback quality, so thanks for letting us know. As for parking mode, the camera is most likely detecting impacts from you opening and closing your door when you enter the vehicle, just check the recordings and see what is triggering these events. If this problem persists please let us know so we can get this rectified for you as quickly as possible. Thanks again for your review, lets see if we can turn 3 stars into 5 :) Regards, BlackVue Australia.