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Does anyone have experience trying to view these with a Palm Treo 650 with the Palm OS V 5.4?

I know this is an old thread but my supervisor and I will be attending the ISC West show this year in Vegas. I hope to see some interesting things. Has anyone seen the 360 degree Digital PTZ yet?

Ok, We are going to be going with the LCD's instead of Plasmas by far after doing more research and on Rory's reccomendations. Next week me, the lead tech, and our Executive Director will be going to Ohio to check out the DVR system at the source to make sure that everything is going to be smooth. I'm hoping that our damn good price quote isn't too good to be true. We'll find out when we get there. Thank you everyone for your input. It is appreciated! James Myers

Yes it is 30FPS on all 64 channels at 4CIF playback and review and 12TB of storage. The bummer is that it isn't raid at all. There is a redundant power supply though. They are lettered drives instead of striped all the way across. I will mirror the main hardrive that has the OS and Software for the DVR for backup. They are all hot-swapable 750GB Seagate SATA's. We only need to keep our footage 7 days per the MICS. Rory, Thankyou for your suggestions about the LCD's over Plasmas. I am pretty scared about image burn. That's one thing I definately don't want to happen. I'm just trying to come up with a good configuration for our surveillance room so we can free up some space. We are quite cluttered as many surveillance rooms are. Like I said, we have a total of 103 cameras right now and we will have the expandibility to go up to 160 because of the Hotel. I know it's kind of a odd question but does anyone know about like the minimum system requirements in aspect to LCD's with CCTV i.e. Resolution, Contrast Ration, Response time? What does LCD have over Plasma in CCTV? I know that you know your stuff Rory. We have a $12,000.00 budget for monitors. We currently have a total of 16 CRT monitors in a massive rack/frame all Honewell. 4 20" CRT's on the bottom and 6 15" CRT's in the middle and top. We have two Ultrak controller keyboards for our ptz's. We will have 3 pelco keyboards after our new system comes in. I want to make 3 seperate workstations that have our PC's, Keyboards, and possibly 2 smaller LCD Monitors (19"-22") on the actuall desks each. If anyone has a better idea of coming up with for what I want to do I'm all ears! Thankyou for all of your responses! It is appreciated! James Myers

We actually only have a total of 103 cameras at the moment. We just wanted the expandability to be able to go up to that considering that we will have a 4 story hotel built on in about 2 years or so. That is 1 operator per station. We currently have 16 crt monitors and we cover our small casino quite well. Any ideas on the Plasmas and LCD's?

I'm a surveillance tech at a tribal casino and we have been having a hell of a time troubleshooting an outside Honeywell KD6 rugged dome ptz. We took a lighting strike last year and it hasn't been the same since. We get severe horizontal striations across our monitors anytime that it's moved with our Ultrak UltraKey Joystick/Keyboard. It's hooked up as follows from the light pole: 1. The "hat board" 2 data lines, 2 power wires, 1 RG-59 coax cable. 2. The Data lines are run straight back to the surveillance room into "jumper blocks" that run into the back of our "Mini Max 1000 matrix switch. 3. The power wires are run to a breaker downstairs along with 2 other outside ptz's. 4. The RG-59 runs into a passive NVT. 5. Out of the NVT it turns into twisted pair (CAT 5) that runs all the way to our surveillance room into another passive NVT. 6. Out of that NVT it turns back into RG-59 that runs into an input of the back of a Honeywell Fusion DVR. 7. From the output of the dvr it runs into the input on our "Mini Max 1000 Matrix Switch". And from the matrix it runs into our monitors. Now we have troubleshooted many different things. We've switched out the Main Matrix board. We've tryed different dvr's. We've also tried different inputs on the back of the matrix. What's strange is that when we use a handheld monitor (Normally used for focusing still cameras) on the RG-59 that comes out of the nvt inside of the surveillance room, and move the joystick we don't get the striations. It only has the striations when it come out of the output on the back of the DVR. We've spoken to Honeywell tech support many times and they're just as stumped as we are. We are starting to think that it may be a grounding issue. We've also switched out different ptz's with it and it only happens on those specific wires. It would be extremely difficult to run new wires considering that we can't find the damn electrical conduit that it runs through. ANY SUGGESTIONS? James Myers

Sorry it took so long for me to reply. I've been quite busy lately. Yes it shows the striations with pan and tilt. It'll even show the striations when we move 2 other certain outside PTZ's that are on the same data block (Meaning where the data wires are hooked up to inside the surveillance room). I'm not very familiar with a "smoothing capacitor" or R/C suppressor. Can you elaborate on that for me? And also I don't know what a VDA is. I'm still learning all of this stuff. I appreciate all of your help.

Anyone have a link for that "Video Meter"? The only thing that I could find through google was a "Video Level Meter". Is that the same thing?

Untill we can get the sissors lift back we are stuck because we have to be able to get high enough on the light pole to do any more trouble shooting. We'll just have to see what happens then. I really appreciate all of the replys so quickly! I will post updates as soon as I can. Thank you, James

NVT-213A and we are only using 2 of the wires on the cat 5.