Panasonic BL-C131A Network Camera Wireless 802.11

Product Description
What happens when you're not around? Life is precious and valuable. View the things you value when away from home or when you're at another room in your home. View your property, your pets, even your children. You can even listen in! You can add extra eyes (through your computer) by adding the Panasonic BL-C131A Wireless Network Camera. It works with 802.11g wireless technology and it lets you monitor its "view" (what its lens sees) from virtually anywhere. Just log on a specially designated Internet site using a PC and instantly access camera images. You can even control the BL-C131a using your web browser to move the camera's pointing direction and modify its digital zoom to bring objects of interest into close view. Place this plug-and-play camera in your home, office, vacation home, or almost anywhere else you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required at the location. Check your property, check your children, check your babysitter - from any location using your PC or an Internet equipped cell-phone or PDA. And the camera can be easily hidden from view. 1 Lux Color Night View Mode Simple plug&play mode Built-in Microphone - listen as well as view Privacy Mode- Privacy mode can be controlled remotely using your administrator password Camera can be set to automatically record video at certain times and certain speeds With optional, external sensors attached to the camera, it's possible for the camera to email5 or record when triggered by motion, sound, light, timer, or even a push button Compression Format JPEG (3 levels), MPEG4 Picture Sizes - 640 x 480, 320 x 240 (default), 192 x 144 Frame Rate (speed) - Max. 30 FPS (640 x 480, 320 x 240, 192 x 144) Integrated F2.8 fixed-focus lens - set for 20 to infinity Panasonic 1 Year Warranty Connecting the camera to the Internet requires Internet access and may require that you obtain additional hardware such as a cable or DSL modem,

Expensive but Great Technical Support
I purchased two of these cameras so my wife and I can view our baby's room from work. There are better optics from other web-cams out there but what makes this product stand out from the rest is that (a) it works and (b) it works because the Panasonic provides human beings to walk you through the set-up process. It's complicated (at least to me) because you have to make sure your router is set-up (port(s) open/forwarded) and that's not something non-techies understand. However, by the end of my third call to Panasonic over the course of two days (Weekend days by the way), the patient and helpful folks at Panasonic go both my cameras working. After a few awful technical support experiences at companies like Dell- it was a real surprise to get such support. I purchased a similar product (wired web-cam this time) from D-Link two years ago and wound up selling it on Ebay for 1/3 of what I paid for it after I couldn't that that webcam to work and the technical support at D-Link told me the issue was my router which was out of their jurisdiction. I'm going to look more seriously at other Panasonic products now that I have had such a good experience with their techincal support staff.

Great product
I'm still getting to know this product but of what I've experienced so far it's been great. I was surprised how easy it was to set up and easily moved around.

Surprising number of features - Well designed
This was purchased for security for my house. I'm able to record any activity to a remote PC (at my office) so even if someone steals the camera, I'll have the activity recorded off-site to catch the theif (hopefully).

The setup was surprisingly simple with UPnP with my router. I expected to have to tinker with the settings but it just worked out of the box.

The camera management software is mature and feature-rich.

The web interface is impressive with full-motion video and camera control. It even has a web page designed specifically for cell phones/PDAs.

The audio doesn't work with iPod Touch/iPhone but the video is clear and the web site is fully functioning on those devices.

Impressive.

believe the good reviews
This was as good as all the reviewers rated it. I definitely recommend it.

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