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Digital Video Recording (DVR)

This new technology brings remote video surveillance systems and DVR cards to a new level. Monitor your store, office, restaurant or warehouse remotely. Supervise employees while away from your business. Digital video recording offers live remote video surveillance from another computer. Watch your business activities from home. Digitally record up to 3 months or longer and retrieve archived video instantly.

The Digital Difference (Digital vs Videotape)

Digital video recording (DVR) is the latest in surveillance technology that offers full digital recording, remote surveillance access, remote device controls and more. DVR is a computerised surveillance system that combines all the features of a traditional videotape system by integrating a color quad processor, motion sensors, multiplexer, pan & image zoom controls, cctv monitor, remote camera viewing and time lapse recorder into a single unit.

Traditional videotape surveillance systems in the past required ongoing effort to make them work properly. A DVR system will run by itself without any assistance. Turn it on and forget about it. Say goodbye to videotapes, and having to remember to put the tape in and pressing the record button.

Next to the cost and hassle of a videotape surveillance system, the picture quality hasn't been the greatest. Picture quality on videotape is poor, in part because tape systems share four on more pictures in one video frame. The picture quality on videotape also degrades each time it's used due to head wear, tape stretch, and decomposition of the videotape coating. DVR on the other hand uses one picture per video frame, and all cameras can be views simultaneously with superior picture quality.

Locating footage on tape can also be time consuming. Trying to find the image for printing by fast forwarding and reversing the control buttons requires a stroke of luck. More than likely the printed image will be blurry, fuzzy or unidentifiable. The DVR system uses a calendar-assisted search tool that allows fast and efficient searching by day, date or time. DVR images are stored on the computer's hard drive rather than on videotape. This not only preserves the picture quality in its original state, but allows fast data retrieval. Locating requested video footage on DVR can be done is seconds.

Remote Monitoring :

DVR offers remote surveillance access. This enables your security cameras to be viewed from another remote computer anywhere in the world. Monitor your store, office, restaurant, parking lots or warehous remotely. Supervise employees while away from your busines. Watch your business activities from home. Access your DVR computer by a phone line, cable modem, ADSL, T1, satellite, and wireless connection LAN, and WAN. Your DVR will be equipped to connect remotely using any of these methods.

While you are logged in and viewing your security cameras, the DVR system is recording everything.

 

Features Overview

• Watch Live Streaming Video In Real-time.

• Software incorporates a friendly graphical user interface for control functions, operation indicators, and multiplexed video display of cameras connected to the DVR System.

• Scheduled or continuous video recording that is activated by motion detection for all or selected cameras. User selectable zone coverage for cameras allow specific areas to only be recorded. 

• Advanced video storage system that organizes the files and displays archived video footage with calendar-assisted search tool. Select the day and/or times for review and playback.

• All images are time and date stamped.

• Image speeds up to 60, 120 and 480 FPS.

• Remote surveillance monitoring and recording through network or dial-up access. Password authorization allows remote users to monitor, record or playback captured video.

• Additional display and monitoring capabilities including composite video, or back up video to a time lapse recorder.

• NTSC or PAL compatibility.

• J-PEG and M-PEG video compression.

• Pan / Tilt / Zoom functions with supported PTZ cameras.

• Multiple camera switching methods for 4 or 16 cameras.

We now offer various DVR bundles with 4, 8, or 16 camera solutions. They include everything required to implement a total DVR system at your chosen location.
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