barnesy1977

Hello all, I'm hoping to get some advice on here about what system is best buy, and maybe even where from. I'm looking at buying 7 cameras and a DVR for home CCTV. I previously bought Swann PRO-530, PRO-746 and DVR8-1200 but it's just not upto what we need, so I'm moving that one to my warehouse. The breakdown we need, is: 2x Dome cameras to show a good picture upto 20m 5x Bullet cameras to show a good picture upto 15m 1x DVR for the above We want to be able to view the cameras via the internet on phone and laptop. I don't think we have any real need to zoom in on any of the cameras, although for the 2x domes we would like to be able to say read a car registration or be able to identify a person at say 15-20m away (from playback). Hikvision seem to be rated quite well and a friend of mine has a system at his work and it looks good. I see there are a number of sellers on ebay and aliexpress etc who sell these system very cheap. My concern is whether they are genuine. I don't mind spending a little more on a UK based seller but with needing 7 cameras the overall saving buying from China is quite a lot. Having researched it I'm wondering if the following would be what I need: 2x Domes 20m = hikvision DS-2CD2732F-I 5x Bullet 15m = hikvision DS-2CD2032-I 1x DVR - I've no idea - it's a minefield :-/ Any advice anyone could give would be greatly appreciated....if this is a good setup, what DVR I'd need, and where to buy them from. Thanks alot in advance David

Thanks for the reply tomcctv, but I wonder if you have my post mixed with another as I hadn't put any links or prices on for the cameras I was looking at ? Do you know the best website/link to purchase these from them - either UK or China ? thanks David

Thanks Russmuss - I had no idea about NVRs being the latest tech, so I'll focus on the one you suggested. Re the hard-drive, should these also be the same brand as the rest of the kit, or are they a very separate thing where can I use any so long as it has the correct connection ? cheers David