By Dean Caporella 

The use of night vision cameras continues to expand as home owners in particular realize the importance of maintaining total coverage of their property.

Night time conditions provide an ideal scenario for intruders to invade your space and steal your property but with the right equipment, they are kept under a watchful eye.
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By Ryan Temple

Choosing the right DVR Card for a Surveillance System is not easy! You have invested a lot of time and money into your home or business and want to protect those investments. This is no different than buying home, vehicle, or life insurance. It gives you piece of mind.
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By Michael Dunteman 

With many different affordable home security camera systems on the market, a homeowner may have a difficult time trying to select a system that will suit their needs. Some of the systems on the market are PC-Based Systems. PC-Based Systems involve installing a DVR Card and software into your PC, and then the cameras will be recorded directly onto your PC’s Hard Drive.

With this type of system, your PC should be used only for recording the cameras, as DVR recording is a very processor and hard drive intensive application. The PC would also have to be left on continuously, otherwise recording would not occur. While these systems are very good, not every homeowner wants to leave a PC running constantly.
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By Peter H Williams

PTZ is an abbreviation for Pan, Tilt and Zoom and is a term used in the security and surveillance industry. You will find the PTZ acronym used in any of the following ways - a PTZ controller, a PTZ camera, PTZ software or PTZ equipment. A PTZ equipped surveillance camera can be controlled remotely in the following manner:

• You can PAN the camera from side to side thereby controlling movement in the horizontal plane.
• You can TILT the camera up and down thereby controlling movement in the vertical plane.
• You can ZOOM in towards or zoom out and away from your subject.

As mentioned above there are many products preceded by the PTZ acronym so lets consider.

Like so many things in life the development of technology has brought huge developments to the security and surveillance industry with the use of computers almost everywhere. The PTZ camera will be a digital camera and the zoom will probably be digital and all the movements of the camera including the pan and tilt, can be controlled from a computer workstation.
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By Steve Mcneal

This CCTV Buyers Guide provides a comprehensive overview of deploying a successful video surveillance camera system in your business or residence. This guide contains information to help in the design of your video surveillance system, select the products that best fit your CCTV system requirements, and help make key installation decisions that will save you time and money.The information was derived from deploying 100’s of CCTV systems and gathered from CCTV call centers who answer questions from commercial and residential customers. This guide combines the data from past CTV projects and gives the reader a head-start in the successful CCTV project

There are many details to consider when specifying the correct CCTV Camera System. Professional Video Surveillance is not a cheap endeavor and a budget should be outlined and the best possible system should be considered. This guide will help the novice CCTV buyer in reviewing camera and recording system for their CCTV and Video surveillance requirements.
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By Steve Strong

Considering how much they have spent into their homes or businesses, homeowners and business owners take very good care of their investment.

The worst thing that could happen to them is the loss of these possessions through burglary. Cunning thieves can, in a minute, can cart away thousands of dollars worth of valuables, appliances, products, and cash from an unsuspecting owner. Worse, some may even threaten to physically harm the owner just so they can get what they want.

To protect themselves from burglary, security systems are installed in the house or in the office. These security systems can be as traditional as a high fence, a dog, or the employing of a guard or high tech such as alarm systems and motion sensors.

One of the most reliable surveillance systems for a home or business is a security camera. This camera allows a homeowner or business owner to monitor everything in the vicinity of the camera’s location. The images are transmitted to a set of monitors in his house or office where he can see what is going on outside in safety.

While there are monitors that are specifically made for cameras, many homeowners and business owners opt to use their computers or TV sets as monitors. To make it function as a camera monitor, it would need a DVR card, or a digital video recorder card. This is a device that plugs into a personal computer and converts images to digital signals that are that could be projected into a PC monitor. Or this could be incorporated into a digital video recorder which could then be connected to a normal TV set.
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