The 4 Camera DVR or Digital Video Recorder takes video images from our surveillance cameras, turns those video images into digital images, and then stores this video footage on a digitally formatted drive. This is useful when you need to store your video surveillance.

However, the DVR is really a DVMR or Digital Video Multiplex Recorder with many simple features that can help you manage your video surveillance recordings, so that you can find stored video, play it, and erase it if and when you choose to. To simplify, lets call this the 4 Camera DVR and explain to you its benefits.

The DVR is the most efficient way to organize surveillance video footage, because it lets you view what you want, when you want it. It even has a remote viewing feature so that you can see your live or recorded video surveillance when you are travelling or when away from your surveillance base of operations.

Understanding multiplexer technology within Digital Video Recorders

When a Digital Video Recorder with Multiplexer functions is used, the incoming video signal is encoded with temporal information. This information can be assigned to any given number of incoming signals.

If signals are inbound from 3 or 5 cameras, then the segments of video footage arrive and are given time slot data, meaning information specific to the location or 'slot' they arrived in, and then saved into memory as archived data. Once saved, someone who wants to call up the information for specific time and events from specific or general camera locations may do so and thus manage their video surveillance recordings.

Impressive & Useful Features

Video Motion Detection & Activation: The DVR has a built in video motion detector that allows you to start recording video footage when there is movement. So if you have a home or office with 4 or 16 rooms, and only 1 room encounters someone moving in it, than only the camera in that particular room will trigger the recording feature on the DVR system.

Video Output: The DVR also lets you watch the events on all of the cameras connected to it in real time. That means that if you want to check who is knocking at your front door while you want to watch who is at your back door, your kids at home, your employees at the office, or your customers in your retail store, you can see them all at the same time...live. The DVR video output simply connects to a computer monitor or a video monitor in order to show you the many different camera views that are actively happening.

Remote Access: The DVR lets you watch video footage from anywhere you can gain access to the internet with. You can watch all cameras connected to the DVR, and you can even give other people permission to remotely view the footage. This feature does not interfere with operation of the system, so you may watch and record, and replay what you see simultaneously.

Large Video Storage Capacity: The DVR can hold up to 800 Gigabytes of video footage. Bulk amounts of video surveillance can accumulate in removable hard disk drives. You can purchase 250 GB or 320 GB hard drives, giving you maximum video storage.  The storage capacity can be expanded without the need for formatting new drives. This is helpful when you need to remove a storage drive and replace it without wasting time reformatting drives to be congruent with the DVR system.

Other benefits that make using a DVR for Video Surveillance

High Speed Review:  The DVR lets you go to specific times and dates of footage, giving you the ability to find video images at a high speed, as opposed to rewinding or forwarding a magnetic video cassette. You can also search for specific footage by looking at the footage of separate cameras.  

CD Burner: The DVR has a built in CD burner in order to make copies of video footage. You can make copies of stored video footage, and play them on a desktop or laptop computer. This is very helpful when you want to show someone evidence or proof that an event happened by bringing them the proof to view at their location. This is also an effective when making a back up of video surveillance recordings. 

Time & Date Stamp: In order to be admitted as evidence, most judicial courts require that video surveillance contain a time and date stamp. Therefore, it can be acknowledged that an event or action did occur at a specific time. 

Central Monitoring Center:  The DVR is capable of networking with up to 300 systems, used by casinos, airports, maritime security installations, hotels, buildings, and outdoor camera configurations. This feature lets you connect extended volumes of cameras to inter-connected DVRs in order to set up a focal point for viewing and recording all video surveillance imagery.

Reliability:  People use our DVR because it works similar to a computer but is not a computer. It will never freeze or crash like a computer operating system, nor is it susceptible to a computer virus attack even if it is part of your home or office network.

Quality:  With traditional VCR or Mini DV tape recorders, the operator has to replace cassette tapes after time or the quality would degrade. The DVR does not need someone to replace the recording medium, namely, the hard disk drives that store the video imagery.