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You misunderstood. If you are doing it DIY, it is $50 per camera in total and we will advice you what hardware to use and how to connect everything. Edit: The figure for a 16 channel DVR (200fps) is £1699.00 or around $2,800 at the current conversion rate. The Corporate 32 channel DVR (320fps) is £3499.00 or around $5,800 - on second look, not sure where you got the $8,000 figure - it is quite a fair bit lower at the current exchange rate. For this, you get: 1) Server grade hardware, 2) All software and video compression licensing fees 3) Training CCTV operators and staff, both on site and unlimited phone/email support 4) Warranty on all parts and labour - if a fault occurs, we normally have an engineer on site within hours to fix the problem We support any analog camera, including PelcoD/P PTZ cameras and any IP camera that has MJPEG, MPEG4 or H264 output. We are a small company so we haven't tested a wide range of IP cameras, but we tested several Panasonic, Axis, Y-Cam, Sony and others including no brand IP cameras. If support isn't available, we generally develop support within several days (provided it isn't some exotic ActiveX camera) - all software is developed in house. Also, the monthly fee is optional, you are more than welcome to use dyndns or similar and a self signed SSL certificate. If you want to access the DVR through our website on http://xanview.co.uk and are interested in the additional features, then support packages range at £5 (around $ per month.

IP cameras have some advantages like internal motion detection, compression, etc, but generally you get a lot less for your money and with such a budget, I would go for analog cameras: 1) Your PC may in fact do if you are willing to tolerate lower framerate. 2) Get a DVR card, these guys sell them cheap ($70 without audio, $130 with): [mod edit: store link removed] 3) Install Ubuntu and ZoneMinder or Motion: http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuide 4) Get some cheap cameras, again [mod edit: store link removed] have them as cheap as $50 for surprisingly comparable video quality to IP cameras costing $500 or more! Recommended DVR Cards: 1) With audio: [mod edit: store link removed] 2) Without audio: [mod edit: store link removed] Recommended Cameras: 1) Wide Angle: [mod edit: store link removed] 2) Variable Zoom: [mod edit: store link removed] You can probably get away using open source software, but shameless plug: we also carry commercial software compatible with all of the above and licensing is as little as $50 per channel. Check out our live demo on http://xanview.co.uk

Which companies have browser based solutions? I know VideoInsight have a nice (albeit limited) web interface, but most I have seen still require ActiveX and therefore do not work on anything other that Internet Explorer under Windows. We at Xanview have tried to embrace HTML5 and other web standards. The stable version still uses Flash to view recorded video (live video uses javascript), but the upcoming version will allow switching to the HTML5 video tag to remove this dependency.

If you want to do some of your own work, then you can try Motion as an alternative to ZoneMinder: http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ - it is pretty bare bone though and you need to install the web interface separately. We at Xanview carry a commercial product loosely based on Motion, there is a live demo here (top right corner): http://xanview.co.uk We generally build DVRs out of reliable server hardware, and offer a complete package where we deliver, install and maintain everything. If however you wish to use your existing hardware and cameras, we can offer a software license and support at $50 per camera and make recommendations as to what DVR cards are supported. You can contact us on the website if you are interested in more details. To date, all the ones we tested worked like an old style DVR/VCR recorder, only allowing: playback, stop, rewind and jumping to a specific time and date. The ones that had motion detection, presented a long, practically unusable, list of times and dates and the motion detection was very unreliable. By contrast, we are event driven from the ground up with a focus on being able to see hours/days in minutes.