Dashcam Review - The Yi Ultra
For the first few years my youtube channel was built on the back of dashcam reviews. Back when I started out the term dash-cam had yet to be coined, they were Car DVRs and they're still one of the main reasons people visit my website.
So with that in mind I should really try and keep up to date with the latest models, so that I always have some I can recommend, and that's exactly why I've tested out the new 2.7K Yi Ultra.
I understand from previous patreon survey responses that these kinds of videos aren't too popular, so this might be one to skip if you're not in the market for a dashcam. It'll be interesting for me to see how many views this video receives.
UPDATE: I've made a couple of corrections and uploaded a new version above. It may take a while for the 4K/UHD resolution to appear on youtube.
Comments (21)
This one's in Amazon UK's Black Friday sale (use the link in the video description!) bringing it down to the same price as the A119S. Very tempted (despite the macOS issue).
I think Tecmoan is in trouble. The patreon objective for the 4000 dollars is approaching and will be then charged the promised video tour. ;)
I still think it will probably never happen. The room looks worse than ever at the moment.
Hmm, intriguing that your OSX wont mount the card but Windows does, sounds like the cam formats the SD card in NTFS of all things because thats the only file system that Windows and Linux can read but the Mac wont. o.O Could you check how the cam formats the disk?
Windows reports it as FAT32 (with errors).
The glitch at the 11:50 mark seems to be remedied.
Good news...this was the fourth upload.
Another great video, Mat. I already bought an inexpensive dash cam a year ago, but given that, I am still interested in learning about any new devices. Things are changing all the time.
Hi Mat, great video, but please check out the sharp noise at the moment of the scene change at the 11:50 mark. Very nasty when using headphones.
That is unfortunate. Something in the video has caused iMovie to crash on every export bar this one...it's been a nightmare to get this one uploaded. I'll try to upload it one more time overnight to see if that fixes the problem.
Looks really nice. When you played the sound vibration, it sounded a bit like distorted radio interference. :)
There's a nasty sound, at least on my PC, at the 9:59 mark (with the side-by-side comparison at the civic amenity site).
Just chiming in here saying I thank you for the dash cam reviews. They are what led me to your channel in the first place. Your reviews have been very insightful for both of my cameras (Mobius and A119) and look forward to future reviews of newer units to replace them as they age.
This almost makes me want a dash cam - well done.
I bet You could review the phonebook and still make it entertaining
I will never ever drive in the UK. The way you drive on the other side of the road drives me nuts. (I've run over enough things in the US that that's probably all for the better.)
Don't blame us for driving on the "wrong side". We drove our horse and carts on the left before we even discovered and populated America and for the first 200 years, Americans drove on the left too. It was only in the 1700's that things changed. In fact, every civilised country began by driving on the left like the UK.
I like any kind of content you produce. It's really entertaining for me to watch from begining to end.
Speaking only for myself, I don't really care about dashcams and would never own one. that being said, I find your videos to be marvelously entertaining, even when you're talking about things I don't care about. And that's before you pull out the muppets.
Keep the muppets - the reaction to them is as good or better than the muppets themselves. Just my 2c.
I keep thinking "Ye Ultra Dashcamme?"