DVR Security System Review

The hardware inside the Mace DVR has many similarities to what you would find in a personal computer, the Mace DVR-800T contains an AMD processor and it has a Linux based operating system.  There are 8 BNC connectors built in to the DVR to accommodate your security cameras and there is a built in hard drive for storing video.  The hard drive included with the system has a 240 gigabyte capacity, you can replace this with another IDE hard drive with a larger storage capacity, the system can accommodate up to 4 internal hard drives.

At maximum the DVR can record images at a speed of 30 frames per second, it is compatible with both PAL and NTSC video signals and it uses both MPEG-4 and H.264 video compression.  There are also numerous CIF recording modes you can select for adjusting the image quality of footage.  In NTSC mode the security recorder is capable of recording at a maximum resolution of 704*240, In PAL mode the maximum image resolution is 704*288.

You can also record audio with the DVR and set up a two-way communication system, the DVR has eight audio inputs but it only has one audio output. A DVD burner is built into the Mace system so you more than one means for storing your surveillance camera footage.  You can connect cameras to the Mace DVR that have pan tilt and zoom functions and the system also has an RJ45 connector so you can connect it a LAN or to the Internet.

Connecting the Mace recorder to a LAN gives you the option to use PC’s also connected to the same network as monitoring stations, connecting it to the Internet allows you to monitor attached cameras remotely and you can also control the systems functions.  There is a password protection system built in to the DVR and each user given access can be assigned certain privileges that determine what functions of the DVR they can operate.

You can set the DVR to record surveillance camera footage non stop if this is a necessity, you can also schedule recording.  The Mace DVR also has motion detection capabilities and these can be used to determine when it starts and stops recording camera footage.  There are also 8 alarm inputs built in to the DVR that can be used to activate recording and if you want to notify personnel on site about specific activities picked up by the DVR you can make use of its three alarm outputs.

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