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Please read your post and see if you can understand what you're trying to achieve yourself.

TV lines represented on specifications sheets are rarely the actual representation due to a number of reasons. Look for a post related to how the camera picture quality (especially the resolution) is affected. There are many out there including one of mine. That should give you a place to start.

Is your quote installed price? Then you're getting a heck of a deal! If not, then if you do a little more research, you'll find both the DVR and cameras at a cheaper price all over the internet. You're not thinking of buying these and having an integrator install these for you, are you?

There are plenty of DVRs out there that run the client program based on Java on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. But over 90% of DVRs will require IE to view, playback and access setup. The new trend in multi-browser support is gaining popularity especially since the introduction of Iphone - Thanks Steve - and what lacked in other OS's like Mac OS, is now available, so there are DVRs where you can use a Mac to connect from.

Built-in UTP means built-in video balun. Get a balun on the DVR side, either passive or active and you shall have video.

Hello, There are some real-time DVRs for HD-SDI, but limited to 4 channel (with my limited knowledge). I believe that the market will be saturated with real-time HD-SDI DVRs after ISC West 2013. Having said this, the real-time DVRs are limited to 1280x720, which the market calls 1.3MP, but in reality, it's really 0.9MP. Anyways, good luck with your upgrade hunting.

If all you need to see is video and be able to control the PTZ, I'd use a wireless video and serial command transmitter, which can also be quite expensive. How far is the camera from your viewing location? Depending on the distance, you would be able to get away with just running the video cable to your monitor and utilizing wireless IR signal repeater to control your PTZ - something I believe will be the cheapest solution. If not, there are laser video signal transmitters (requires line of sight) that you can use to transmit video up to 1000 feet or so. But this device does not transmit serial commands. As far as video servers, you should be able to find a decent video server (Full D1, H.264/MJPEG dual stream, de-interlaced) and so forth for around $200 or so. Before you buy any video servers, verify if your camera supports Pelco D or P protocol. Then you'd either add a wireless option to the server, or use the wireless bridge... Good luck.

Have you checked with Sony to see if they offer a wireless Ethernet adapter for your camera? If not, I'd get a Wi-Fi bridge (and range extender) from any electronics store. Plug in the IP camera to the bridge and have the bridge connect wirelessly to your router. I just realized that this is a normal camera with remote control. You can always add a video server to turn this camera into an IP camera.

I've seen that done quite succesfully, but I prefer where to position the camera on the tile area, and don't want to restrict myself to only where the frame crosses. Having said that if I turn up and forgot to bring ply with me, I might be tempted to screw into the frame. If you have no choice but to mount it in the middle of the tiles, I'd definitely reinforce it with a ply.

Have you checked with Sony to see if they offer a wireless Ethernet adapter for your camera? If not, I'd get a Wi-Fi bridge (and range extender) from any electronics store. Plug in the IP camera to the bridge and have the bridge connect wirelessly to your router.

SuperHAD II imagers are 960H... http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/effiowld/products/index.html

Why? 960H imagers don't demonstrate any benefits when coupled with 4CIF/D1 recorders. All I'm saying is that there are companies that are promoting "Effio" cameras with another CCD, which would be fakes. Yes, 960H imager offers no benefit to today's standard resolution DVRs, but there are 960H specific DVRs that are starting to emerge.

I forgot that CCTV industry shuns upon end users. Don't they realize that end users are the actual and final customers...? LOL. Where did you buy it from? Give them a call?

I guess you just wired the PTZ to the DVR to the keyboard that you didn't adjust any settings? The manual I skimmed through is really not clear as to how to set up each device after you wire these. No wonder you're confused. Please gather the following information: 1. Address ID of the keyboard controller, communication speed and protocol it's using. 2. Does the keyboard controller have a junction box? 3. Addres ID of the DVR, communication speed and the keyboard assigned. 4. Address ID of each PTZ camera, communication speed and the protocol it's using. To make this easier for you, let's assume that your PTZ cameras will be on channels 1 through 7. 1) Fire up each PTZ camera and assign the address ID of 1 through 7. 2) Set the protocol to Samsung protocol. If it does not exist, then set it to Pelco D. 3) Set the communication speed of each PTZ to 9600 baud. 4) Change the controller address to 17 5) Set the protocol to Samsung. 6) Set the controller communication speed to 9600 baud. The DVR setting is different for every DVR out there, so I'll provide a general guideline. 7) In the DVR, go to each camera. See if there's an advanced setting or options to adjust protocol, communication speed and select address. 7-1) If these options are found there, then for camera 1, set it to samsung protocol (if the PTZ is samsung) or Pelco D (if it does not have anything compatible for your PTZ and the PTZs will have to be set to Pelco D as well). Set the communication speed to 9600. 7-2) Once you set up 1, pull up the DVR PTZ control interface, select camera 1 and see if you can control it. 7-3) If you already have your controller attached, see if you can control the PTZ camera. 7-4) If successful, repeat for the remaining 6 cameras, each selecting the right address ID, protocol and communication speed. There should be another section for serial device, communication, or something. It should be in an entirely different submenu. 8-1) When and if you find it, you should be able to select the keyboard make and model, communication speed, and even adjust the address for the DVR. 8-2) Set the DVR's address ID to 18. Set the speed to 9600. Select your keyboard. If your keyboard is not available there, then you are not going to be able to control the DVR with your controller. After all this, if it still doesn't work, check your wiring. I don't know what type of wiring you have done, but you have 3 choices: a. Daisy chain - if the link is broken somewhere, you will not be able to use the rest of the rest of the product group beyond the break. You may or may not have to terminate the last PTZ. b. Star (home run) - all devices are connected directly to the controller/DVR. If one link break, the remainder still functions. b. use an RS-485 signal distributor. I would run the RS-485 to the DVR's TX+ and TX- input, and run another set of wires from there to the PTZs. Make sure that the PTZ wires and keyboard wires are touching in that same block terminal. You can then "star" wire all the PTZs. It can be daunting, but it's just simple logics and matching all the settings... Good luck to you... But have you tried calling Samsung to walk you through this?

Rather than the picture of the product, can you capture how you set up the DVR, PTZ and the controller?

Hello Matt, A realistic S/N ratio today should be anywhere from 50dB to 52dB. Even 54dB would be pushing the specs. Please note, on the other hand, that signal to noise ratio can be measured in different settings set by the IRE. So is it possible that this camera achieved 60dB? Of course. But I'd be skeptical about their testing methods. When you get an Effio based camera, verify that you have 960H CCD in the camera.

Good Luck!

If it's a Dahua unit, then there's not doubt about the quality and performance. I've heard so many great things about them. Good luck with it.

They made great efforts to present this product shine. It looks like a great unit. "This is the highest quality standalone DVR available anywhere in the world. The Ultimate Series records real-time video at either CIF (360 x 240) or 4CIF (704 x480) resolution on every channel. That's right! This unit can record up to 704 x 480 at 30fps on all channels simultaneously. Match this capability against any other DVR on the market today and you will see why this is truly the Ultimate DVR! It is ideal for use in casinos, for license plate capture, facial detection or anywhere that high resolution images are paramount." This is taken straight from their description of the product. The spec sheet was a little unclear bout all channel 30pps D1, but the description confirms it.

Pelco D and Pelco P are pretty much the standard of the PTZ cameras. Regardless of who, every manufacturer includes Pelco D. If your DVR has a choice of SK-P (they can integrate it by obtaining the source codes for the serial commands from Sunkwang), then go with it. Nothing better than the native protocol. If your DVR does not have it, then there's nothing wrong with going with either Pelco D or Pelco P. Just make sure that your PTZ is set to the same protocol as on the DVR, and then match the communication speed. See if the PTZ has an automatic protocol detection feature built-in. Then you can just match the speed, set the DVR to Pelco D, and control away!

There are reasons why IR based cameras are in the shape and design they are today. This looks like a design that's from another planet. 1. They offer no IP certification to back up their waterproof-ness. Waterproof require IP 67 or higher. 2. the IR maximum distance described here, 100 feet, will most likely not work with this SINGLE LED. I don't care how powerful it is. If this camera sees 100 feet inside a building with white walls, I'll be impressed. 3. The camera does not describe the beam spread of the IR LED illuminator. 4. 6mm lens on a 1/3" imager will give you a field of view of 80(L)x 60 (H) feet. A human head will look like a dot, if the camera does see that far. 5. I have NEVER seen a monofocal CCTV lens with F1.2. Do you know how difficult it is to achieve F1.2 on a bigger varifocal lens? 6. Most cameras have migrated to S/N ratio of 50db or higher. 48db was considered good back in mid to late 2000s. But then again, I can be completely wrong. I would get a sample and test one out.

They are essentially the same. There are two types of LPR cameras that I know of but if I am not up to date, please correct me: 1. Regular camera - regular day and night camera with DSP and IR LED tweaks to optimize high contrast images for easier license plate reading. 2. Ambient Light Rejection camera - companies like Bosch and Pixim manufacture specialized license plate reading cameras. http://www.pixim.com/assets/files/product_and_tech/Eclipse%20Product%20Brief_Sept_2008.pdf http://www.boschsecurity.us/en-us/reg To answer your question, YES they are made of identical or similar image sensors and DSPs.

I would recommend setting up an entirely different network so that one does not interfere with another. But if you have no choice but to do this, then I would first setup a mock 32 channel system and monitor its traffic size. You have not given us as to what resolution and transmission rate you'd be using, so I would actually set up the system as desired and see how it fares. Then compare the traffic size and the traffic size of the IP camera system, add them up and see if your routers and switches have been PROVEN to SUSTAIN the calculated traffic. I can tell you from personal experience that once you tap into the existing network and setup your surveillance system, you WILL BE BLAMED for everything that goes wrong from the IT department. And yes, it does affect each other somewhat. I can tell you many horror stories involving an IP system gone wrong involving hospitals and some of the most well known household electronics manufacturer brand when they were sharing the same network structure... Just not safe. From your description, it sounds like the system will be on a separate network, but I'd use a router to uplink the two networks... Keep in mind that you are installing a security system, which has to be fail-safe, or as close to fail-safe as possible. If any of the regular company network stuff has anything critical, then I would stay away from the existing network. Good luck!

A cheaper alternative would be to use an external HDD via either USB 2.0 or E-Sata. Many DVRs come with e-sata expansion options, and most of them inculde USB 2.0 ports. All you need to do is to hunt for a DVR that has a real-time mirroring function which is capable of backing up to the external drives. You would then use a long USB or e-sata cable to run the cable to a hidden or locked external HDD. When you think about real-time file upload backup via the network, think about its accessibility and time it would upload/download chunks of video that can end up in gigabytes and even terabytes. How long do you think it would actually take to upload these from a typical ADSL or cable modem speed? Consumer internet often offer 1mbit/s upload or slower, so when you calculate the recording data rate on your DVR and calculate your upload speed, then you can get a fairly accurate estimate if your back-up will be real-time or delayed due to the upload bottleneck. Moreover, since most data file formats are not made to be recognized with the time and date stamp, you will have to guess as to which files represent which time frame of recorded data. Today, on a 12mb/s download speed (typical cable modem), it should take about 1 hour for every 5 GB to download. Though the file sizes have been trimmed down extensively, expect about 1 to 1.5GB for every hour of CIF real-time recording on a 4 channel H.264 compression DVR. In other words, in order for you to download and review 5 hours worth of video (which you are probably not sure if the video is contained within). Unless of course, the backup storage is local (like on a PC with FTP server setup somewhere in your residence or a backup HDD). So it would take you 2 hours to download 5 hours of video on an 8 channel DVR, 4 hours to download 16 channel DVR, and so forth, based on the same CIF real-time recording setup. I know that the DVR manufacturers will eventually catch up and provide a self-sufficient remote backup solutions just like VGA, DVI and HDMI caught on. I know at least two manufacturers out there that offer built-in FTP upload solutions. For the time being, this is how I would recommend you setup your system: 1. DVR and backup external HDD (granted that DVR has real-time backup). Long USB extension cable is commonly found. In case the DVR is stolen, some DVRs allow you to connect the backup drive directly to a PC and then view the recorded video immediately. The key advantage of this is that if you replace the DVR, then you can plug this right back into your DVR and use the drive. 2. DVR with built-in FTP upload or similar function, and build your own local FTP PC server (you can use pretty much any old PC for this and large enough HDDs). You would then upload directly via internal network, so upload and download, if necessary, would be much faster. The problem with this, is that the file system on your PC will not be the same as your DVR (typically Linux based), so the data file will be useless unless you can find a way to migrate the data from a FAT32/NTFS to ext2 or ext3 file system, depending on what type of Linux OS the DVR has. 3. Your original consideration, where you subscribe to a service and have that software upload the recorded data in their own proprietary format(?). I don't know the exact science behind this, so I don't know if they just relay the same raw data, or convert it into their own format... Anyway, you would most likely run into a similar problem. Anyways, I know they are out there, so good luck. Remember, the simplest solution is sometimes the best solution.

Daisy chain from your keyboard to the DVR and then to your cameras. Have you configured all the communication protocols? Typically I use 9600 baud for all RS-485 equipments. But you can use whatever rate you choose, as long as you set the same speed you're going to be controlling. 1. Keyboard - set the communication speed and assign the protocols to all PTZ cameras. 2. DVR - assign an address ID # and match the communication speed. You should be able to select your keyboard model for protocol. 3. PTZ - assign each a unique address ID and match the communication speed and protocols. I usually match the PTZ camera's ID to the channel # on the DVR. Then I set the DVR usually to the highest allowed address, and then the keyboard to something similar... Good luck.