MikeW

New to this technology. Here is what I am wanting for my house. I would like to install 8 cameras throughout inside/outside of house and connect to a DVR. I would like to have a dedicated LCD monitor in one room and have two High Def TV's be able to watch both satellite (DISH - current) as well as switch channel/input to view the 8 cameras at one time. Is this possible? If yes, what do I need or what do I have to look for in my decision for buying a DVR? Thanks for your help.

This data is very helpful. Wondering what you all think of this for a solution to my requirements: I am looking at a DVR (Promax 900 KXSeries DVR) which has outputs of BNC, VGA and SVideo. Both BNC and VGA can output at the sametime. Therefore, my thought is to put a VGA splitter to use to route to two LCD monitors and use the BNC to route to the input of my Surround Sound Receiver as the DVD2 input. This hopefully would allow viewing on two LCD's and the TV at the sametime. Anyone think this won't work? I really appreciate the help and sorry to drag this one on.

Soundy - I was budgeting around $1500 for a DVR and a total of around $3000 for the entire system. What I really want is to have two LCD monitors (one in the office and one in the bedroom) and then have one TV be capable of viewing the 8 cameras. I have that TV hooked up to a surround sound system (Pioneer Elite) and was thinking I could possibly use one of the inputs like DVD2 to simply push one button on the remote which will shift to that input. If this is possible to design in this fashion I would truly appreciate any advise. Net is looking for a DVR capable of having two LCD Monitors and one TV input. Also - was thinking of a stand alone DVR but has network capabilities for remote viewing. However, the two LCD's would be hooked direct to the DVR and not viewed via a PC. Thank you,