Question: I upgraded my CCTV on Saturday afternoon from a crappy £40 camera with a
built in microphone that used non-time dated video tapes which needed
changing or rewinding all the time to a proper digital video recorder with a
decent semi-hidden camera and seperate totally-hidden microphone.
On Sunday morning at 1:50 I had unwelcome visitors and the whole lot was
recorded with good sound and vision.
Apart from the police taking until Thusday night to arrive and view the
footage is this a record?
The charges are interfering with a vehicle, theft, threatening behaviour,
criminal damage and indecent exposure and the yobs have all pleaded guilty.
I fitted the CCTV system myself in less than 2 hours at a cost of £400.
Answer:The system is a 4 channel triplex digital video recorder with a 300Gb hard
drive (CCT715) that will take another 300Gb as a slave. The camera is a
3.6mm lens B&W outdoor version with a 86 deg view (their advanced vision
cameras) I purchased them from http://systemq.com/ a company that only deals
with the trade (a friend has an account there) buy it easy to set up your own
account It was possibly a mistake not buying a recorder that has a LAN output
for future use. I have seen plenty about with this facility at similar prices
to my model . Next jobs are a camera with a bigger lens to close in on the van
and a camera at the back of the house.
