I've been following this thread with interest. I'm on the verge of ordering one of the Dahua models, but the funky aspect ratio might bother me. I feel like the firmware could just stretch it out horizontally to get rid of the anamorphic squishing that's happening.
If I did get one, I was thinking I could use the anamorphic options in
Blue Iris to fix it, but if you're using substream decoding, that's not an option, it's grayed out. A firmware fix for that would be awesome. I'd like something like this to replace my older 2MP booby camera. It's just in a spot that I need the 180 coverage and it would be difficult to run another ethernet line out there (up by the street near the group of mailboxes and also covers some vehicles parked on the street.
I guess if it came to it I could get this anyway and:
a) hope for a firmware update to demorph it
b) disable substream on just this camera and use BI settings to demorph
c) live with the distortion
I mean, it's a cool looking camera, much smaller than the Hikvision (thanks for the side by side physical comparison, that helped make up my mind about that... the Hik is just too big for my needs, I think).