johnny13oi

A DVR is just needed if you want to record what it being seen through the camera. If the output is composite through a BNC you can just get an BNC to RCA adapter and hook it up to your TV and have a picture to the TV but it will only be live video feed since nothing is being recorded. A cheap D1 DVR by itself is not much. At Microcenter you can purchase a 4 channel DVR for about $70 and add in a hard drive to store the video feed for about another $50 for a 500GB drive which could store over a month's worth of video from a single camera. I bet they are even cheaper online considering I see a whole kit with DVR and 4 Cameras with all the wiring for about $120 on eBay and a hard drive is just another $50 or so depending on how much storage you want. Most of the newer DVR's will also allow motion detection features and network connected features to view over the internet.

Hi, I have two brand new units that came as 2 camera plus DVR kits that I purchased and it seems as though the Motion Detection with emailing does not work. I have it set up correctly and tested email send and it worked during the email test but the unit does not detect motion even when set to the highest level using the PC software connected to the DVR through the internet. Is anyone aware of possibly newer firmwares available for the unit? I am considering purchasing another kit however the firmware seems pretty poor and am considering Zmodo kits on eBay now.