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Buyer's Guide to CCTV Cameras & Recorders

Bars & Night Clubs

With an average loss of 25% ~ 35% due to shrinkage and wastage, combined with one of the greatest exposures to civil liability, it's no surprise tha...
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Warehouse CCTV

Buying the Perfect CCTV system for your warehouse
Warehouses are unique in the scope of closed-circuit television systems for the same reason it so crucial that they be equipped with cameras: their in...
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Restaurant CCTV

Restaurant CCTV Systems

Just like bars and nightclubs, the security issues that restaurants face come primarily from inside the business, and with the potential for up to 25%...
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CCTV for Home

Residential CCTV Video surveillance systems for your home

We find that home owners put cameras on their houses for a multitude of reasons... general surveillance and prime prevention, problem with neighbors...
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Retail

Securing Your Retail Location With Cameras
One of the most difficult things about designing a system to go in a store or other retail location is that, with a bit of creative thinking and a lar...
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Industrial CCTV

Industrial CCTV
Everyone knows that surveillance cameras were primarily designed with the intent of providing security for a building, however outside that realm ther...
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Schools and Universities

Surveillance for Schools and Universities
Big or small, the benefits that can be had from having surveillance cameras up around a school, college or university can be huge. Not only do they pr...
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When NOT to Buy

10 Warning Signs When Buying a Surveillance System

Recently, we had a post on our Advice and Tech Support Forum in which we were asked how an average customer, new to CCTV, can tell if a company he ...
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CCTV How To's

Building Your Own DVR: Step One

Building Your Own DVR: Step One

Even when considering a relatively small scale system, the cost of a set of cameras and a DVR is still fairly substantial, so when picking out equipment, many a tech-head has contemplated building his or her own DVR as a means of saving money, and with good reason. Since more and more DVRs are using PC platforms, if one is already familiar with a PC and how to build one, it might seem like a cakewalk to put together a PC DVR from scratch.

Armed with past experience, many professionals and hobby...
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How to Mesh IP Cameras, Analog CCTV Cameras, and multiple DVRs

PC-Witness Hybrid NVR / DVR Demo

Since 1998, we've been advocating the use of digital CCTV video surveillance systems. For some time, very little has changed. Sure, features such as motion detection, picture quality, and remote video monitoring via the Internet became more powerful and easier to use... but it's been a long time since we've seen a true evolution of the DVR. ... Until recently.

It's called the PC-Witness Pro Hybrid NVR / DVR . You would think that any device offering up to 960fps (at full ...
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How to Install a 1304NET DVR Camera System

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