DVR Security System Review

The Lorex QLR1660 provides a cost effective means of setting up multiple surveillance cameras within your home or business.  The DVR card accommodates a maximum of 16 surveillance cameras and records surveillance camera footage at up to 30 frames per second.  You will need a mid range PC with a free PCI slot in order to get the Lorex QLR1660 up and running, it includes software that allows you to view surveillance camera footage on your PC’s monitor.

The DVR card literally turns your PC into a fully functional recorder and monitoring station, once it is inserted and set up it shares many of the functions of a dedicated digital security recorder.  Installation is straightforward, you simply open your PC’s case and insert the card, when you turn the power on Windows detects the card at which point you insert the CD that includes the software drivers for the card.

The Lorex card provides you with multiple alarm relay inputs and outputs, it will detects the activation of attached external alarms and begins recording surveillance camera footage (by storing it on your hard drive).  The software for the Lorex card has a password protection system so you can ensure unauthorised personnel are locked out of its functions.  The DVR card also has motion detection that can be configured to control when the system starts and stops recording surveillance camera footage.

Like many security DVR’s the Lorex cards software has a scheduling facility so you can specify what times you want the card to start and stop recording surveillance camera footage.  The DVR card is capable of processing audio and you can use it to set up a two way communication system between your PC and an entrance on your premises.  If you have 16 cameras attached to the system you can’t record the audio feed from each one, the DVR card can accommodate up to 4 audio feeds.

Spider cables are included for connecting alarm, video and audio devices to the card, its software is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.  You will need to attach the Lorex card to a PC with at least a Pentium 1.6 GHz processor, 256 megabytes of RAM and a graphics card with at least 64 megabytes of RAM.  These are the minimum requirements for the Lorex card but you will gain higher frame rates and have overall better performance if your PC has higher specifications.

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