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That depends on you, I can. Both methods work, what database experience do you have?

mdb is a microsoft access database file, so anything that can import from access can probably import from that. You can also use OBDC to link it to other databases like MySQL or just another access database.

Agreed both companies have said no support for items sold on eBay. So you know any mfg support is toast and you save what $15. I have both products in open box but i don't sell anything on ebay.

Agreed. If you let your customers loose with Windows you will have troubles, luckily I observed this quickly and only supply headless DVRs. Which also means no mouse to get eaten!

haha Exacq has hybrid options and even analog monitoring capabilities. Welcome Rob!

You are correct, stuff that doesn't happen on CCTVForum.com I do not wish to address. When these clowns post stuff here I can do something aside from that my adive is pay with visa and require communications through the US postal service. This allows you to both chargeback and file mail fraud.

Cheaper, multi-megapixel support, cheap and readily available hard drives and power supplies. Thats enough there for me and my customers. Oh yeah and in 5-10 years you can redo them partially or fully with very little cost. Heck you can get buyers remorse and fix it for less then a grand. You can't upgrade much of anything on a dedicated unit, now that they are not all RTOS the reliablity of them is loosing ground. The price of consumer PC gear with x10 the capacity is dropping like mad, quality server parts follow quickly behind. The current thoughts of an dedicated DVR need to be seriously re-evaluated. You will start seeing more and more dedicated units running PC form factor motherboards and utilizing web interfaces rather then local displays. Hopefully changing the chassis to deal with more adverse conditions and possibly concealment as PC based systems enjoy now.

Thats what you get when you buy on eBay, it's sad but thats how it is.

Agreed, but don't market it as Internet-based or remote-accessible if you can't actually show it. Kinda silly to say, 'Yea, it's Internet accessible' while walking in with a monitor to demo. I actually have some analog cameras running from a Greyfox system. They look like crap, but the customer is replacing others first (not that they look like crap because they're analog, just that's what the guy from the yellow pages sold them). For costs, one problem is comparing apples to apples with analog to IP. What feature can an analog camera do that an IP camera cannot do? Are the cameras accessible if the dvr is down? Can the camera perform motion detection? PoE? Cabling flexibility? How's the wireless?....they shouldn't cost the same. There are certain differences, which also force different price structures. That's how the market works. There's a reason many good IP cameras are still more expensive.....people are buying them at that cost. City of Chicago bought almost 1000 Axis 233d's (ok, maybe bad example since it's government). But you can bet they looked at options, technology and future. IP cams are pretty far behind, if you have done many real world comparisions you will see you must spend $1000 retail to get the performance of a quality analog $150 BW bullet at night. That quote was taken from someone at Arecont one of the few companies that displays it's knowledge in in products. As I understand at this point every Arecont part# is available in a 24 hour option. The cheapest Axis thats 24 hour is the 211 at over $1000 without housing. Thats just insane for a standard resolution camera. Which would still get smoked by a panny 484. What gets the IP guys in more trouble is put a 484 on an Axis streamer and see what you get. Half price and more performance and basically works like an IP camera. On the megapixel front it's all IP but still many don't even work below 3 lux much less 1. Every day this number expands and when it's $150-$350 per cam I will consider it. Until then I won't push IP cams except in wide overview shots were VGA/NTSC can't cut it without a bunch of cams.

Go get a cheap VCR and set it up near the DVR. Plug the DVR into an input on the VCR as if you would record from it. Move the modulated channel switch to 3 or 4 just make not. Run the RF out from the VCR to your cable TV splitter. Connect the TVs to their RF Cable/Ant inputs Turn the VCR to Aux or input1 or channel 0 or whatever. Tune the TVs to channel 3 or 4. Optionally you may use that amp inbetween the VCR and the splitter. You can also just buy a modulator and do the same thing, I just assumed you may have an old VCR laying around... Even the cheapo DVD install kit at Wal-Mart modulator would work, you need to have a specific channel. If those TVs also have cable TV this can be done differently to inject the cameras onto a specific channel.

No cut filter or something else is up (25mm lens). True day/night is literally a night and day difference from BS day/night. The IR filter is about 1 F stop so if you have an ARM lens at F1.8 plus the 1 from the IR filter you are 2 F stops behind a BW cam with a fujinon F0.95 lens.

Me personally... I would prefer an LED indicator over an intermittent tone. Geovision can handle this with ease, use their IO controller and have it montior the toggle switch and kill power to the cam/mic and send power to an LED when in privacy mode.

Great idea, might also consider a UTP option too!

Depends. During live viewing it can just pass the feed through. During playback it definately makes a big difference.

The PVR500 owns the Impact, I would highly suggest you go that route. You will also have higher quality video then any of the DVRs you normally see. Of course your filesizes will show it if you ever record, mine does awesome at about 3.5 GB/hr per channel.

I flet kinda sorry for the guy so I let this one slide. Spamming is against the rules but begging it appears is not. lol The other posts where in tech forums so they got the ax, if he keeps it up I am sure Larry will provide me a rule to enforce.

If quality is what you want go CRT if you can fit it, otherwise you have no choice really. Try for 4:3 aspect ratio and 640x480 resolution.

Elk also has a ethernet expander with integrated webserver, it's a whole lot of alarm though.

I loaded the ActiveX then shutdown the browser, then returned screen went either black or purple. Only after I clicked did the GUI or anything else display. Then the GUI is illegible but i know enough Geo GUI to guess correctly. The substream works okay, the main stream never did.

Of course that guy is also basically the end all be all of CCTV and alarm related law. You should just buy his instead of paying a regular lawyer to make one.

Get IP cams, no recording and integrated webservers. Also you could do analog cams and a streamer/s. Same effect might be cheaper, well probably will be cheaper. Get decent BW bullets with wide angle lenses and some cheapo streamers. This will work very well as you already know who is on the video you just want to see movement.

Look at the checkboxes in the main system configuration. I know, goofy place to stick that but it's there. Also you might play with alarms and pop-ups or thats what I have been playing with anyway. This way cams with motion will be on more often then cams with no motion. In my case its if any front cam has motion send the sequence front overview, then front door. Which makes logical sence as you need not wait through all the other cams just to get back to see who is at the door.

You have unlimted photo capacity through me if you want it. You can either email them to me or I can gve you FTP access to a webserver, whichever you prefer.

why not run a test since you have a decent camera already to play with, plug the Sony you have into a VCR and compare the quality vs what is gathered from it's JPEG encoder. Now run both cases inside a smallish closet attempting to use a normal remote control as an IR cannon. Now you will know the quality of the camera and optics, quality of the encoding and if it is IR sensitive. Most IP cameras are not IR sensitive, very very few are. What I think you will find is the highest quality result comes from the daytime using the analog connection. This is very logical as the VCR contains uncompressed video whereas the JPEG stream will have whatever compression the camera is capable of. This does allow you means of determining quality of the recording equipment. My problem with IP for solutions like this right now (2008) is that the cameras are not ready yet. * Cost, most of these cams cost way more then their analog equivilent. * Very few true day/night IP cameras available. * Lacking in encoding quality, you get MJPEG (little compression) or MPEG4 (not always compatible and the quality inferior). This applies to VGA/640x480 IP cameras, megapixel makes more sence but thus none has mentioned one.

If the camera is pointed below the horizon then the sun most likely didn't do it.