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Thanks for bringing the topic back - and the help. we'll decide soon enough.

Thomas Thanks for ur reply I actually did visit ur site and loved the camera system setup.

LOL - yeah that is true. Oright so basically it comes down to buying a DVR card I should look at a BRAND name and stay away from knockoffs? thanks for everyones input.

Oright so from everything I see - there are problems with Knockoffs. So other than geovision what other card is there for a budget minded person. Looking for 15 fps on 7 cameras. on a side note, since there are alot of dealers in this forum why dont you just make your own hardware and software (ofcourse alot of money is involved but than you would have an OEM that could be YOUR OWN). I dont imagine theres is alot involved, since alot of other companies are making knockoffs. From what I gather "conaxent"[sorry dont know the name] is the video processor for each channel and the rest is up to the hardware engineers to figure out. I'm just feed up with people who are selling knockoffs and manufactures/dealers who sell at outrages prices. Its its just impossible for a VIDEO CARD PROCESSOR for 8 channels to cost $800 when an ATI / GEFORCE graphic card with 3D mathematical capabilities, with most of them 10 layers of PCB and other amazing features to cost ALOT less than that. So there is a great monopoly in this market. Sorry for the rambelling i'm just feed up.

Oright so lets say there Knockoffs - wouldn't it be like saying I bought a ATI card from a different company rather than ATI itself. I mean the chips and pcb diagrams are the same, so what is it that makes a kockoff not worthy. Also I noticed this person has many positive feedbacks. thanks

Hi - I'm looking out for a DVR card thats cheap and has good frame rates. Anyhow I came across a series of cards from KMC. The model that I specifically need some tips/help on is the KMC-8800 (8CH REAL Time DVR CARD) 240FPS. Some specs could be found on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5736784785&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT Here is also another link http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Wai01RsplPIJ:www.securitycameraworld.com/YTech_DVR_Boards.asp+Engine-K+compress&hl=en&client=firefox-a I also noticed that the cards are using H.264 and not MPEG - it seems this is a new standard. But is it better than mpeg? If anybody has experience with these cards or can tell me some short comings of these cards from the specs I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks