Video Recording

One of the most important pieces to your surveillance system is your surveillance video recorder.  Whether you have one, four or sixteen hidden surveillance cameras you have to take what those cameras see and store that video for reference or possible evidence.  Now you need to decide whether you want to record with a digital video recorder to a DVR or record onto VHS tapes using a VCR.

What surveillance video recorder is right for you?

Digital Video Recorder (DVR) - Unlike VCRs, a security camera digital video recorder records your video to a computer hard drive, to other media such as a DVD, or to a CD burner on your PC (with the right DVR USB cable).  This makes a security digital video recorder easy to maintain because there are no bulky tapes to change and no risk of losing video quality when recording over previous footage.  Except for the Mini DVR, all of our other digital security video recorder devices can be operated and monitored remotely from anywhere in the world using the Internet, as a complete digital video recorder security system.  You may even elect to invest in a high-definition digital video recorder for the sake of precise video quality on playback, especially for applications that will use the video for evidence.  While the surveillance video data is stored on the CCTV digital video recorder, it can be protected from loss caused be operating errors, tampering and accidents.

VCRs - VCRs record to a video cassette tape which creates the need to change tapes.  So we built our VCRs with time-lapse and video motion detection features.  Video motion detection allows the VCR to begin recording only while motion is detected.  Time-lapse is a series of images taken in a set number of time intervals.  This means that not every frame is recorded as it is with Real Time.  Time-lapse and motion detection help space on your video tapes, whether the video is being captured on dome cameras, hidden nanny cams or any other type of security camera.

USB DVR - The USB DVR is computer surveillance hardware that turns your home or office computer into a powerful, global-wide video surveillance system in 5 minutes or less. Connect this compact device to any desktop or laptop via USB port. Then you can record live video from the camera connected to the PC’s hard drive. Can connect up to 4 cameras.