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Version 3 cards have no BNC plugs on the card.. the box has a bright sticker saying version 3 and they are smaller than version 2 cards.

Not a lot... faster drivers.. onboard audio... smaller in size.. and cheaper for Geovision

Tv out on Composite or S Video is converted and usually a slave connection, the best picture quality is the main connected XVGA monitor, unless you do not wish to control the GUI then use the GVDSP card for a Muxed Screen in high quality

There is nothing wrong with Axis.... they have the lions share of the market here.. the only thing I will say about this issue is that a lot of the I/P cam manufactorers make poor or cheaper cams that are not up to the grade, therefore they do the I/P job, but lack image quality. You can do the same thing with a small web server box (inexpensive) then you can use standard cams, the major draw back is that they do not store the date at the I/P pont and therefore not all cams that are I/P can compress the data, so bandwidth is an issue and you still need to store it at the other end... however the Hype for I/P based cams is huge, but really not warranted until they develop a fair bit further. Just my opinion

The Ikegami cam should win hands down.. but I am betting on three things and I will mention them in order of what I thnk they are. 1/ Your lens is not suited to the Ikegami.. this could be for many reasons but the most likely is that it may be Video drive.. can you check this for us.. if it is it will explain the picture and lighting problems you are getting. Also Ikegami are famous for 1/2 inch sensors, make sure you have the right model and manual. Your lens can be incompatible even if it is DC Drive. 2/ Are you sure you have removed the Cmount adapter from the base ring as this will stop you getting focus. 3/ I think it is possible...however rare, that you have a faulty cameras as the Ikegami should kill the low res Sony. In my opinion the best 5 cams on the market are the following. Panasonic Ikegami Sanyo Ganz / Sony So your cam should beat the Sony hands down.. try foccusing it at night, maybe it is a low light cam.. but I am betting that it is a voltage problem within the Iris or a setting you have changed. leaving the CMount in on a Ikegami is common as theirs are slimmer for some reason.

You are Right, Geo will do all of this for you, the 600 series will work fine,, If I can give you some advice it would be the following, get 8 camera inputs instead of four, just in case you move a store or need an extra camera added... also this means that if you use the text overlay from the POS box that you can purchase from Geo... then you will have a nice clear spare input intead of pumping it over the top of your video. For your cash register there are a few things to take into consideration... firstly when you view a cash register you have two choices, you can view the notes and coins so that you can exactly check the transaction that occured with your own eyes, this will involve using a camera with around a 8mm lens , the problem is that to see the notes and coins you will only see them, not who is operating the till and although you know who it is.. you need to be able to proove it in court. The secod option is to use a wider angle like 4mm but this means you will not make out the notes but will see whom operates the till.. Lastly is a third option,,, use two cameras!! Things to note about tills are, most of the time a light shines directly into the till and some tills have a plastic cover to protect the keys or are stainless steel... many people use dome cameras for inside but they have several flaws with tills. Domes although cheap rarely have good enough back light compensation to help with reflected light from the register and because the lighting will change with shadows (operator) etc, it is better to have a dome with Auto Iris at least. If one thing in your shop is bound to move it will be the till... make sure you use a varifocal camera as if you use a fixed lens it may not do the job if you move the camera... my suggestion would be to buy a camera with a 2 to 10mm built in lens like the Ganz Spot cam.. the other reason I stear clear of domes is that if you place a dome directly above a till and look straight down on it, you actually can make another lens by looking through the curvature of the dome itself. I am assuming that you are in a shopping centre, but be carefull if you are not, and ae looking outside through a door.. you are usually sampling three types of lighting. outdoor, residual outdoor lighting when the door is opened and Fluero lighting, it is better to look back form the door into the same light source or if you must do it use a Wide Dynamic camera that is fully digital to allow for softening of white balanced areas.. if you do not do this you will have sillouhetted people waliking in the door.. once again place the cam on an angle to the door or facing back from the door into the shop and the Ganz spot cam should suffice. You will have the same issue with the back door, either keep it outside with a Day Night camera or do the same, as the door is opened loads of light comes into the room. Go for Day/Night cam from Sunkwang for the car park, this will turn to B/W on low light giving you awesome see in the dark options, you could also go for the Ganz Wide Dynamic camera here.. this would allow you to see colour in very low light which makes it easier to tell if the guy had red shirt or blue etc.. I hope this has helped.

Version 6.0.2.0 Released date: 03/18/2004 - New settings for Point of Sale (POS) Version 6.0.1.0 Released date: 02/16/2004 - New driver for GV-600V3/650V3/800V3/900 cards Version 6.0.0.0 Released date: 01/14/2004 - Directing PTZ dome to the preset position on alarm activation - Screen pop-up on motion or alarm activation - Main screen view with live audio - Object counting - Day-night recording mode - Object search - Thumbnail search - Index search - System log - Twin DVR - Dynamic DNS support - Remote access log database over WebCam - Samsung SCC-641/643 PTZ dome support - GV-NET/IO card support - Managing multiple servers over WebCam - Newly developed video codec by GeoVision (GeoMPEG4) - Point of Sale (POS) integration - Central surveillance by Center V2 - I/O devices triggers monitoring - Video lost triggers I/O devices - Video recycling duration from 1 day to 999 days - New ViewLog with improved and more features - New driver for GV-1000 V1.11 card Version 5.4.0.1 Released date: 09/15/2003 - New driver for GV-DSP real-time display card Version 5.4.0.0 Released date: 09/02/2003 - Video de-interlace filter - Video auto gain controller (AGC) - Mini View Display - Screen minimizing protected by passwords - AVI repaire API function - Video scaling render - Quad view for ViewLog - GV-1000 video capture card (480 FPS recording) - GV-900 video capture card (240 FPS recording) - GV-250 with GV-DSP support and one channel audio recording - GV-DSP 8 (240 FPS real-time display) - GV-A16 16 channels audio recording card Version 5.3.0.2 Released date: 07/28/2003 - Hyper threading support Version 5.3.0.1 Released date: 07/07/2003 - New driver for GV-DSP real-time display card Version 5.3.0.0 Released date: 05/23/2003 - Pre-alarm and pre-motion recording - Passwords uninstall function - ViewLog remote playback - Samsung and Sensormatic PTZ dome support - I/O NO/NC toggle modes - I/O device triggered e-mail snapshot - WebCam two-way audio - Bandwidth control for Remote PlayBack and WebCam remote playback Version 5.2.1.0 Released date: 03/26/2003 - 1024 x 768 display resolution - Post alarm recording duration increased from 120 seconds to 600 seconds - WebCam real-time audio streaming Version 5.2.0.0 Released date: 01/13/2003 - Full screen display - Auto skip null camera when running camera scan - Post recording: 1-to-10-second recording after detected motion - Video lost alert notification via either telephone or email - I/O error alert notification via either telephone or email - On screen video lost message - 640 x 240 and 640 x 480SW resolution. - Multiple network card support - Automatic Window exit and restart - User adjustable event log size - Multi-level passwords - Added auto hide PTZ and I/O control panel - Added modem disconnect delay after e-mail or telephone alert (motion detection) - Synchronize video and audio history data - Auto log-in - Popup PTZ and I/O control panel for WebCam. - View M-JPEG videos in Mac OS Internet Explorer - New WebCam User Interface - New Remote PlayBack User Interface - Audio playback and download function in Remote PlayBack - Auto gateway IP address detection - PTZ support: Sony EVI-D100, Panasonic WV-CS850, Kalatel Dome, and Mintron 22X zoom - Remote view via Microsoft Pocket PC (G-View) - Remote view via i-Mode mobile phone Version 5.1.0.0 Released Date: 07/12/2002 - Real-time display card (GV-DSP), allowing GV system to display video in real-time at 30fps (NTSC) and 25fps (PAL) per channel through one composite video output for connecting an external display monitor - Audio recording - Simultaneous audio and video playing back - Remote playback through TCP/IP - Remote playback through Microsoft© Internet Explorer browser - E-mail notifications when I/O device or video motion detector is triggered - E-mail notifications when I/O device or video motion detector is triggered - Auto detect dynamic IP (DMIP) - Dual display support - User defined frame rates - PTZ control interface (WebCam) - I/O status and server information (WebCam) - DVD+RW backup support

Version 3 is not a new software version..."version 3" just emans version 3 cards.. with a new architecture.. the new Version 6 software has the following improvements: 1/ PTZ Dome to Preset on Alarm Activation 2/ Full Screen Pop Up on detection of Movement per Camera 3/ Object Counting to count people or traffic or items. 4/ Object Search to find objects faster in the history of events. 5/ Thumbnail Search to show all frames in a single event to quickly pick the best still shot. 6/ System Log for recording who has done what activies on the DVr as well as register transactions, counting and log ins. 7/ Twin DVR to lessen the load when many connections are made to the DVR 8/ Dynamic DNS support 9/ Remote Acces to datea files and transactions through the web. 10/ Management of Multiple servers from one Web Window. 11/ Geovisions MPEG$ proprietry compression. 12/ POS (point of sale) integration 13/ Version2 Control Room And a few others not worth mentioning....The only difference with version 3 cards is they would cost Geo less and have Audio built in on most models.

Another thing.. they sayt hey sell to Dealers... but hey list retail clients... how can they do both.. are they a Wholesaler or a Retailer?

Unless Pana has come out with a new CCD chip then they are full of S@#$ because they state they have 550 TVL in colour and the only CCD I know that will do that is a Sanyo and they say they use a Pana chip.. so i do not think they have accurate details int heri info... as for the DVr range, iw ould imagine they haev several types, I have tried the Argus and it is alright, but I have not tried any of the others

Ok I am confused you have two monitors, but is one XVGA and one Composite... if this is the case the composite will look very bad indeed, you need to use the video overlay board ... otherwise known as the GVDSP card, this provides, lag free clearer output to both the XVGA and the composite monitor, faling that you could incorporate a switcher with looping ouputs... you run all cameras to the switcher then they loop back to the DVr, the switcher then goes to your composite monitor, giving full screen images, without affecting the recordings. Rory, XVGA is clearer than analog as it has a higher resolution, it is the conversion that buggers them up.

Nice DVR's they make too!

Oh ok

I am up against this DVr on a massive job, I have never seen it before, does anyone know what it is..it is the PC Based one on this site http://www.global-cctv.tv It is called Opal by this mob. I will be eternally gratefull to anyone who can identify it!

What is DMZ mode

I think a whole lot of them do...contact your local data place they should be able to help you!

By the way, some routers actually have firmware that supports the No-IP OR Dynamic I.P options

No... you can use a dynamic IP.. it just means you need to load the Dynamic IP software on your DVR, this wil communicate with Geovision telling them where your I.P is then allowing you to log through there Dynamic I.P website.... or you could use the NO-IP website!

Version 6 has changed a fair bit, so has the ports you need to forward. It should automatically detect your gateway now. The system should work like this, Fix an internal I.P address for your Geovision, make sure you use an internal I.P range and make sure it stays fixed... do not use DHCP for example you can make your network adapter of the Geo fixed to 192.168.0.4 with Subnet 255.255.255.1 Then set your router so that you port forward the following ports 4550, 5550, and 80 and make them port forward to 192.168.0.4, what this means is that when you connect to your router's address on the net..which should be a fixed address.. for example it might be 203.217.14.9 then your router knows that you are trying to connect on one of those three ports and it has been told by Port Forwarding to send any requests form those ports to 192.168.0.4 which is your DVR. I hope this helped

wow.. that is very exciting to hear....I mean we have tried to push standalones in Australia many times.. they dont sell... in fact teh whole rest of the market does not sell.. DM sells bugger all here and Kalatel have to source smaller companies because of the small volume they do... they told me the US buys heaps.. but I did not believe them... PC is much more popular here.... I want to sell standlaones becuase they have less features and therefore require less support (nothing to do with stability) but they just wont move.. In Australia they dont care about name brands and it seems we are very advanced.. to be honest Geo said we sell the most 800-16 cards in the world and they mentioned that the 650-16 is the most popular world wide.. they keep asking why we buy so many high end cards...I guess the rest of the world is not as fussy yet.. i mean I hate to be rude but America does have a reputation for name brands.. maccas...nike etc etc... and everyone has to have a name brand ... not so much here! I was not arguing that PC was more popular in your neck of the woods but it certainly is in mine.. I just am tired of RORY stating that they are unstable..that is pure bull.. they are very stable if built correctly...I actually...Yes...wait for it......I like the standalone concept much better... but we actually use the PC features here and there is obviously a reason that Geo does not drop prices.. because they have the most featured product.. and that must make it sell or why would they push for more features.. In my opinion the Standalone is the same as a PC but is very overatted due to some stereotypical hype.. the truth is they are not more stable by much at all and they lack the speeds that we need here... I suppose each market is different!

no i mean Multicasting Data Packets... It is not Made in the USA.. it is only assembled there, and you know it... The PTZ devices it supports are very limited considering what other NON Name brands are available on the market...Look Rory...whether you like to admit it or not.. Almost 90% of components that are used in CCTV are made in Asia, they are either Re Badged or assembled in the US! From what I can truley gather there are really ony about 12 or so manufactorers of DVR cards and Standalone hardware compnents and 10 of them are in Asia, yes they make changes to the hardware, but not a lot...A PC is far more superior to a standalone machine at this stage, and the only advantage that standalones have are that they are easier to install and are less prone to windows problems.. As many people on here have attested ...Including AVCONSULTING ...who without doubt is the most experienced of all of us.. It is a Myth about the overwhelming stability of a standalone device... IF A PC IS BUILT CORRECTLY...look I like Standlones but we cant move them here, that is because they are not as popular and they are much cheaper here... man I sold a 4ch standlone for $690 Australian that is 100FPS and it barely moves, yet I move hundreds of PCI cards.....so why is that.. the main reasons are these. Standalones..lack features by a big way...are not as easy to update..especially hardware...are far too slow for big jobs...and the good ones are way too expensive... the price for you to buy a Kalatel 25 FPS would be the same price I build a 200FPS DVR....Look I challenge you....My machines don't break.. nor do many others.. you do not see many reports in here of crashing systems now do you.. even with the cheaper gear. The truth is s lot of people build machines and make mistakes.. that is true.. and there are cheap cards on the market and some very ****ty software..however keep this in mind.. If you spent as much money on a DVR Card and a good HIGH END PC as you do for a Kalatel DVR.. then there is no way the system should have any more or less problems, the thing is people cut corners with PCI systems, and thank god they do,, that is how I make my reputation.. For the last time.. Standalones are not that much more stable...you are just sucked into the Hype....and you buy an expensive Kalatel DVR series which is overpriced for what it does and basically it is a PC whether you choose to admit it or not... even AVCONSULTING validated this point.. embedded is good as it cuts out a lot of windows **** that is not needed, but you can already do that if you know how.. when PCI cards run on Linux they will loose the features..but that small gap in instability will be closed...your machines have a powersupply, CPU and Graphics chip...so does mine and ram too..whats the difference.. any of them can break.. the only argument you can make is that embedded is more stable than XP and I agree with that statement.. but not by as much as you claim.

ooops...... Maxtor not Maxgate

I would guess that your motherboard can not see the size of the drive... that would be surprising if it was a NEw mainboard...boot to the BIOS and have a look what size it says the drive is... check that you have not just formatted some of the drive... but I would say two things are more likely... 1/ You need to upgrade your mother board BIOS.. this is a common thing with newer larger drives. 2/ Your Western Digital drive may not be compatable with the mainboard.. they will tell you this can not happen but it can... by the way... I would not use Western Digital drives and the larger drives are always more likely to fail and they generate more heat than any of the others... I would use a drive bay cooler and two x 120 Gb hdd...Seagate or Maxgate.

I ahve tried it, not bad on the picture quality and the speeds are true.. but the software needs some work

I am not sure to be honest, I always use an IDE raid array, it is juts as cheap $80 for the raid card...and just two other hard drives, they do not have to be SCSI drives... If you have that much time to back up at night the best bet would be to have the third party software, clear the drive and re-copy the dats across, th only reason i did not suggest this earilier was it takes probably an hour or so to do.... Mind you I would imagine that third party software should be able to only adjuts the changed files... but I am not sure