HiLook is produced by Hikvision. To my knowledge, it's a series of cameras which they previously did not sell outside of China, the 1 series (DS-2CD1XXX), and possibly the 3 series, as well. Here's an example of the 1 series, the DS-2CD1341-I turret.
We don't have full details on what chips they're using and all of the differences. At a glance, some of the housings look like they may be plastic instead of metal, some of the mounting hardware doesn't look as robust as even the 2 series, and they appear to lack true WDR.
As I heared that they use fullhan chipset and for line 1 seires its a 4*1 camera they have both metal and plastic housings but acording to the cam data sheet on the hik website they use cheaper materials than those with hikvision logo as u can read from the specs like product weight ext...
yes , the hilook do not available in the US market , because this market seems not price driven , but other market including Latin America market and Africa market they release this , this line want to kill many shenzhen oem products , but in the end seems also lower down the hikvision brand price itself .
i think there are manly two reason that hikvision want to do this line , one is that change their oem customer to this line so save their company oem support cost and control the distribution channel by themselves . the other is that to get the low end market share from those shenzhen companies , as hik they have bigger and bigger sales target every year .
HiLook is doing pretty good here in Indonesia, fighting off all other Shen Zhen product lines. Offering 2 years warranty.
We have been offered another cash back discount promo as we celebrate our independence day in August as attached here....so that's roughly USD10.7 for dome and USD11.4 for bullet, USD26 for 4 channels XVR, USD35.1 for 8 channels XVR and USD62.7 for 16 channels XVR (conversion rate 1USD=Rp.14.600)