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    Did you check to see if the CORE software allows for driving two monitors?

     

    Also, you can put two Hikvision cards in one server. I have four in one right now, which I think is over doing it, and may be slowing down my speed for getting the video out of that box. But I would think you could do two without a problem.

     

    Highly recommend doing this all with Gigabit speed (Cat 6 wires, and 10/100/1000 nic cards and switch and router)

     

    I read somewhere on the Website that CORE does support 2 screens. However there was no mention about resolution. Therefore I wrote an e-mail to the company. Does anyone know if the Software supports 1920 x 1080 on two screens?

     

    I will put two cards in each server. This is what I meant with "- Install two Hikvision DS-4016HCI cards in two servers." It would have been more clear if I had written: "- Install FOUR Hikvision DS-4016HCI cards in two servers."

     

    I have also thought about the point of Gigabit network. This shouldn't be a problem, as pretty much every Motherboard has build in Gigabit network nowadays.

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    Yes, Hikvision is really a nice looking DVR. It is the first DVR card I have seen where the video looks as good as NTSC. Other manufactures are coming out with hardware compression h.264 solutions such as Geovision. My hikvision solution came with Netvision software, which really is not very developed in many ways. (Like you can not even export to an .avi file from the software). I'm in the middle of a 70 camera install, so I'll be able to report more when I am all done. But the idea is for you to use the LAN to have multiple PCs driving multiple LCD monitors. KEEP IN MIND that the card you are looking at will do D1, BUT you can't stream too many cameras out of it before you have real big delays in your video through the LAN. You can go to 2CIF resolution, and that will allow you to active the "substream" which will devert some of the processing power to sending video out over the LAN, so that you don't have delays.

     

    I'm still having delays even using the substream, but my supllier is going to be working with me to tweak things so that it will work.

     

    Also note that the Netivision software that comes with most Hikvision cards does not support dual monitors. Hopefully they will come up with that soon, as it is kind of a basic feature to be missing.

     

    Thare are some 3rd party manufactures out there. Search for CyeWeb 2.1.8

    and CORE, and Linovision software.

     

    That sounds good. I had a look at the CORE Software and it seems very nice. I just wrote an e-mail to the company. My plan for the setup would be the following:

     

    - Install two Hikvision DS-4016HCI cards in two servers.

    - Get two additional Clients that have access to all 64 cameras.

    - Connect two 26" screens to each client (display resoltion 1920 x 1080)

    - Organize the cameras in a nice way and choose full screen on the Clients.

     

    If this works, I think this is going to be a real nice solution. Does anyone object? Any other suggestions?

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    The DVR card that I use right now is a Comart Hicap100. I have compared the quality of the image created by the Software and the quality of the LCD + converter. The Hicap100 + Software (latest version) have lower quality. Things moving in the picture are more blurry than on the LCD + converter.

     

    However the card is pretty old and also the screen that is connected to the DVR is old.

     

    The qustion is if the new DVR card will have better quality. What I wanted to get was a Hikvision DS-4016HCI. Does anyone have experience with this card? Does the Software support multiple screens at high resolutions (1920 x 1080)? Is there good 3rd party Software existing?

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    I am currently working on getting a Control Room equipped with new screens. We have more than 50 cameras displayed on several screens.

     

    Currently there are some CCTV CRTs and normal CRT TVs. I have also tried a 21" LCD together with a composite to VGA converter. The quality is not too nice and you can see the difference between the CRT and LCD pretty easy.

     

    The new screens MUST be LCDs. I had two ideas how to get that done, but I am also open for any suggestions you might have.

     

    1. Getting several 21" LCD and converters that would just replace the current CRT. Downside of this is the lower image quality. It just doesn't look as nice as it looks on a CRT. Also specialized CCTV LCDs don't seem to have a better picture. I have 3 of those and the quality is similar/same as on the LCD with converter. The good thing: This is cheap.

     

    2. Digitalize all cameras and display them on 4 or 6 26" widescreen LCDs. This seems to be a real nice solution. I would anyway need new DVR cards, but I have no idea how to do this exactly. Lets say I have four 26" LCDs and two computers for that (each computer has two screens). I would still need a DVR card with realtime (25 Frames per camera) at D1 or CIF4. Then the supplied software needs to be able to handle two 26" screen @ 1920 x 1080 pixels. Also it is unclear to me how the image quality would be. With my current DVR card at D1 resoltion the quality isn't anywhere near the image on the CRTs. Besides that the Software should also be Hybrid. Then I could finally get some IP cameras.

     

    So these were my two ideas. I really like the idea of having four 26" LCDs to display the cameras. I see this constantly on pictures of other control rooms - they have nice big widescreens and display many cameras on them.

     

    Any suggestions?

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