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number 4 is close...... have company ...well, had company for a week. He has his own ideas of how life works. Sorry he vented here, but I let him go with it since I was on the receiving end for a week...

Simply by some T-connects at Radio shack...about 5 bucks each...

I attended the ISC and just got my CC bill .... MY DONGLE HURTS

COOL! Thanks for the list Cory .... must have taken you some time to put together.

Thanks for info, but I was under impression with GEO, there are timing issues with anything aside Intel. And you define a stand-alone as ....... Thanks

I can understand the compatibility issues that Geo or any other cards I have encountered have since it would be impractical to test all possible hardware configurations. But, once you have tested successfully with a certain configuration, I would think they would do regression testing on any future hardware of software releases. I have run into compatibility issues just moving from 5.4 to 6.1 with same hardware, but have also run into 5.4 working on one (for example) ASUS board, but not another ASUS model which is very similar, same chipset but maybe different bus speed. Some recommend nVidia mx440 cards, other ATI. Give me a sure fire configuration which is using a 3.0+ gHz cpu and I will stick with it until told otherwise.

Oh, and a couple other things...(hey, you asked). Intellicam had a slick little dvr. It basically looks like a 15" screen hanging on a wall with 8 bnc inputs and a couple outputs. In fact it appears to be a laptop with the screen turned around (no keypad though). I would like to find out who developed the capture device. It was a standalone system but they had IP cameras hooked up to it. I asked them why they are using IP cameras to promote a DVR and the explanation was a bit of douple-speak, in other words, no reason other than to push two products. Which leads to this question. They, along with other vendors had IP cams without any storage. I thought that was one of the perks for IP's over standard cams with DVR. Let the camera be server and recorder, and retrievals can be requested from any PC. The DVR folks were pushing the "not secure" of IPs to remain with DVRs. IP folks claimed DVRs were Dead ..... Didnt see any VCR folks claiming anything, nor did I see some, but know there are plenty of people out there using them and still selling them, once again foiling any attempt by any of these vendors that there is a total solution.

Spent two days there also. Surveillance equipment was definitely the theme! .... Very little access control or alarm stuff. Alot of SOS at the smaller booths. As FredB stated the latest and greatest thing seemed to be "Intelligent" cameras also a big push on IP cams although most systems were hybrids. Honeywell had an interesting IP system. 4 camera that plugged into small box which did all the grunt work before passing on to PC via wireless router. Kind of an external capture card with some memory and the ability to hook up both IP and standard cameras. Passes the encoded video over to PC for display, recording, etc... residential or small business system which also integrated into an existing alarm system. There was a couple accessory type firms which had some really great housings and different type mounts for just about any application. Pelco, of course had the biggest display, pushing Optic fiber, intelligent cams / software, and hybrid systems integrating IP into current configurations. Good show, but didnt see anything not currently available on the market in some capacity.

Is there a source where I can get the latest list of compatible devices with geovision cards... I just got back from ISC and didnt see them there.... dam!

I believe the remote system has to be running XP Professional. HE has an add on or must use terminal services.

This depends on how you want it to store the video. If you are looking for redundancy, ( same video to both drives simultaneously )you will need a RAID controller. If you are looking for continuous recording, moving on to the second drive once the first is full, than, those settings are in the General config area. BrevardCam brevardsecurity.com

Can't you just use the Geo Backup Utility? It allows the selection of date, time and camera(s). And, what about watermark, I have seen it reduced using any other type of copy, regardless of media it is copied too. brevardCam www.brevardsurveillance.com

PC = Upgradable