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Just dump the Geo card and buy a Dahua Standalone. Problem solved.

Maybe look at the QVis Apollo pro 4 channel (Dahua HE-T) D1 30fps each channel, max 8x 2TB HDDs. Image Resolution - D1/4CIF(704×480) / HD1(352×480) / 2CIF(704×240) / CIF(352×240) / QCIF(176×120) Encoding Speed - Main Stream: D1/HD1/2CIF/CIF(1~30fps), Extra Stream: CIF/QCIF(1~30fps) Bit Rate - 32~2048Kb/s

GeoVision Hardware Software Compatibility Chart http://www.mediafire.com/?qle1n9v8fa7ek2p

I wouldn't wish Windows 7 on my worst enemy.

oh okay thanks Interesting name to say the least

New Geo software will ask to install NVR only or DVR software. The NVR is free with Geo IP cameras, but costs per channel for other IP camera brands.

Why would one be using a Eurasian Eagle-owl to access the DVR?

exactly. but there are some very lazy installers out there who also would rip the client on overpriced junk that cant see at night and then still cry about installing a cheap piece of 18/2 cable.

That download speed is alot better than mine, and I can still view 64 cameras but in low res, eg. CIF. Upload speed is about the same as mine, here it is approx 384kbps.

Some programs may adjust the bitrate lower for faster video over slower connections. OR it may also be a bitrate setting on the DVR.

Sounds more like a bitrate setting

D1 is 720x480, or 4CIF is 704x480 The camera's effective pixels for a 480-650TVL camera is typically 768x494 pixels (NTSC), though this may vary from one camera to the next - the specs for the camera should specify this. Current 700TVL cameras are typically Sony Effio 960H which is 976x494 effective pixels (NTSC) D1 would therefore obviously not cover the 960H camera completely - there are DVRs now that will record 960H however they are still rare at least on the US side of the globe. CIF is 352x240 - therefore recording a 480-700TVL camera at that resolution you are losing alot of quality. Even a 380-420TVL is typically 510x492 total effective pixels, so recording those in CIF (352x240) can lose alot of quality also - however that is useful for smaller less important areas. If you are looking for a new camera, perhaps look at 700TVL cameras, if anything they will be ready for the newer 960H DVRs that may eventually come down in price and become more popular - right now though 550TVL-600TVL is the common camera. Most budget cameras I use are still 420TVL, lowest price on the market. 540TVL would be old technology. Sources: http://www.ktnc.co.kr/english/portal.php http://www.cnbtec.com/en/html/product/product_list.php?maxx=1 Ofcourse, then there is Megapixel. That's for another thread though

I would imagine only if that 750TVL camera is a 960H camera (960x pixels). TVL means little (well not entirely but ..), its the total effective pixels that count.

1/3" is wider than 1/4" I wont bore you with the other details.

Earthcam does this. Packaged deal.

Not Visual Basic - Visual Basic Script. Stripped down XP and fast boot is always nice Check this out: http://www.bahamassecurity.com/software/cctv-software/dvrlite.asp http://www.bahamassecurity.com/software/windows-setup/nlite.asp Yeah but take the stand alone for example, 16 channel is drawing 25 watt, 32 channel is drawing 40 watts - people like to hear that during this recession. Thats the typical sales pitch that American companies (eg manufacturers) throw out there - but guess what, we dont have warranty on hard drives in this country, and our electric is much worse than the U.S. The key to your hard drive lasting is using a Voltage Regulator, and keeping the disk as cool as possible. Literally, if I take my computer off the APC Voltage Regulator right now, it will likely be dead by the lunch time. Sounds like you like what you are doing, and that is very important.

Check the Windows Application event log for that time period.

The issue is the Monalisa chip. Problem is, on CNB's site everything is Monalisa now.

they must make the American ones different then.

it certainly appears that way, in Canada and the UK at least (you saw that Canadian news report too aye?)

You could try that, but then they have the right to defend their property and therefore they may end up beating you to a pulp - they are not breaking the law but you are the minute you take physical action against them, hence any returned action by them is self defence - it is not illegal for them to film in a public area. Again, if you arent doing anything illegal then you have nothing to worry about. Most citizens welcome the use of CCTV in public, be it on the street, a car park, or in a store. If you dont like it, then dont go outside, have groceries delivered or drive a car with tint.

Come again? How do you figure that? Interesting, so basically its like a Ram drive, but costs money. Normally the DVR will do that. Or just write a simple VBscript and use Windows Scheduler to run it. Although every 24 hours is a little too much, You can safely run a Windows DVR for at least 7 days. Additionally since most breakins happen at night, I would suggest restarting it in the middle of the day, which also helps get faster attention for repair if it should fail to restart for whatever reason - unless you are awake at 4am. Again, you can write a simple VBscript to do all of this, or even a batch command file. Use the TaskKill and Shutdown commands, and the built in Windows Task Scheduler. The DVR software should really be doing this though. This doesn't sound like a good idea - you could be loosing video, basically auto fix errors never works good with Windows chkdsk. If the disk is bad, then the disk is bad, no amount of chkdsk is going to save it. Sell the client an APC Voltage Regulator with every DVR, and that would help prevent hard disk errors. To prevent file corruption of open data, the data file must be closed (in this case a video file) and thats where a UPS with AVR would come in - however some software will check the previously opened data file/s and rebuild it properly on app startup so thats not even needed in many cases. Thats always a good thing 7 days is fine with Windows XP. The problem was you were buying cards from Ebay. So you buy all the computer parts, 2TB hard drive, 16 channel DVR Card, 750watt PSU, all for $400? Also how do you know it blows away any stand alone DVR? I can get a 16 channel stand alone loaded with features that is guaranteed stable and never needs a restart and that only takes 3 minutes to install at the client's location, for less than that. And this is coming from using features of GeoVision DVR cards. 750 watt?? WHY?? That's a ridiculously huge PSU for a DVR. It is not needed. Okay so you get an outdated 8 year old CPU and Mobo and memory for $65, I am not surprised then about the low cost. They dont make that hardware anymore so it has to be used or overstock. DVD burner is rarely used these days in DVRs by the way, all you need is USB in most cases. And there is no way on this God's earth that Windows 7 will run stable on that system. Actually your video is being converted to digital so there is processing even if it is just on the card. I take it that is 6fps due to PAL? I would agree that is fine in most applications, and it saves considerably on hard drive space. However it is nothing like real time, 20fps looks real time to the human eye, however its still not real time. 30 to 60 days can be covered with 20-30fps once you install the correct number of hard drives and sizes. Actually most would display a hard disk warning. Many utilize SMART and will deal with it appropriately. Additionally it can email you the error. It will also try to recover bad sectors. This is the same whether it is a PC or Standalone DVR. Hence, as with Windows, when the hard disk is bad, if it gets corrupt it will restart and try to recover on reboot. Another thing, with most stand alones the OS is not on the hard drive, it is embedded, so even if the hard drive fails, the system can still tell you there is an error. Actually, living here we deal with hard drive failures all the time, we have some of the worst electricity in the world - however Voltage Regulators help to prevent the failures (even had AVRs catch fire from power spikes). When the disk is failing though it will either freeze up or continuously restart - this happens regardless of a PC or Standalone DVR. Point being, I used PC DVRs for several years, and stand alones for even longer, and I dont see anything that sets them apart in this regard. One can run chkdsk until the cows come home but in most cases it wont actually do anything useful to save the drive or data. If anything it might block a bad sector but that is only prolonging the imminent total failure for a little while. And if it finds data in that bad sector the DVR software is hardly capable of using the unrecognizable pieces of data it spits back out into a filecheck format. Again that another nice pro of a stand alone embedded DVR, it will not hang in the bios if the hard disk fails, it may hang for a bit on start up trying to recover the disk and in SOME cases keep restarting but in the stand alones I use it will still startup into the embedded OS and at the least show there is a disk error or if you set it up, it can even email you the error. Heck I ran my stand alone DVR for 6 months with a failed hard drive, I simply set it to record over the network to my home PC. I would genuinely love to see a video clip from this super stable cheap PC DVR

Yes DVRs record 24/7

Good luck

No I was 100% Correct - you are NOT forced to go into public. Digital cameras are - cameras - cell phones have - cameras. If you want to get rid of cameras in public, then you have to get rid of ALL of them, and that includes getting rid of cellphones and digital cameras. Really though, you guys that live in your little dreamy towns with no crime might not understand, but after seeing murder after murder on the streets around here, most of which never get solved, CCTV certainly does more good than bad and would help greatly in the apprehension and prosecution of murders and rapists.