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Arlo Pro 4 in the test: These surveillance cameras are NSA-ready
by Martin Jungfer
Arlo increases prices: Plans for surveillance cameras become significantly more expensive
13-3-2023
Translation: machine translated
Do you have a plan with Arlo to record videos from your surveillance cameras? Then you can expect some steep price increases in April.
Arlo subscriptions under the name "Secure Plus" and "Smart" will have new prices in Germany from 17 April 2023. Arlo has informed its customers of this by email. The price increase - Arlo calls them price changes - is particularly drastic for the single camera plans. Here is an overview of the old and new monthly prices:
You can avoid some of the price increases by opting for one of the newly introduced annual subscriptions - or a "membership", as Arlo calls it. These are available for the price of ten months, so Arlo is "giving" you two months for free.
Who needs a plan anyway?
With Arlo increasing the subscription price, some users are probably wondering whether the subscription is even worth it for them. I also recently addressed this question in my test report.
Basically, it's convenient to know that Arlo stores the 2K recordings for 30 days (with the Secure plan) or the 4K recordings for 60 days (with Secure Plus) and you can retrieve them from the cloud at any time. Alternatively, it is also possible to set up local storage, but this involves hardware costs and installation work. In the case of Arlo, you need a smart hub at least once, which is not even part of the kit for the latest generation of systems.
One of the cheapest ways to record videos without having to take out a plan is to use camera systems with local SD cards as a storage medium. Below you will find two of the cameras that work in this way as a suggestion.
You can also use the filter functions for network cameras and surveillance cameras in the range to find the product that best meets your needs.
Martin Jungfer
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Martin.Jungfer@digitecgalaxus.chMy career as a journalist began back when printing presses were still a thing. Writing pieces for a publication aimed at breeders of small animals was my first steppingstone. Several years later, I got a call from headquarters. I was put in charge of several digitisation projects and establishing audience management strategies for regional newspapers and the NZZ. I’ve been with Digitec Galaxus since 2020, writing articles whenever I get the chance. As I have semi-superficial knowledge of many things, my spectrum of topics is quite broad.
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