DVR Security System Review

NetProMax have come up with a PC based solution for home and business owners who need a surveillance system that has a multitude of cameras. This particular model is the NetProMax FX-32C240G50 and it is a 32 Channel Security DVR so you can attach 32 cameras to the system. PC based security system owners find they run into frame rate issues if they have a high number of surveillance cameras to their PC. The video frame rate tends to become choppy when all of the surveillance cameras are set to record simultaneously. To remedy this you can lower the recording resolution or attach additional DVR cards to the system.

When watching standard television we see the images displayed at roughly 30 frames per second. Most people consider video to be smooth when displayed at this frame rate, when the frame rate lowers you notice the difference as video motion looses its fluidity. This particular PC based DVR system boasts a 30 frame per second recording per channel, this feature will prove to be very useful if you need all your surveillance cameras to record simultaneously.

At maximum the DVR can display video footage at a video resolution of 704*480, the system uses enhanced JPEG video compression. A number of the accessories for the DVR are optional, one of these accessories being the audio inputs. You can choose to have between 1 or 16 channel audio with the DVR, if you don’t need to hear the activities around your surveillance cameras there’s no need to upgrade. Another optional accessory is the CD writer, you can choose to have this replaced with a DVD writer instead.

Other using the CD or DVD writer to store video the security DVR has a 500GB hard drive that you can use for storage. The capacity of the hard drive is also optional but you have further options when it comes to video storage as the DVR can be connected to a network. You can network the DVR through your broadband modem or alternatively you can choose to have a PSTN modem fitted to the system as an optional extra. Networking the DVR gives you or select personnel the ability to control the system while based away from the site that you choose to install it.

The drawback with this NetProMax DVR is the amount of RAM that comes with the system, unfortunately it only has 256MB of RAM. To remedy this you can purchase an additional 256MB for a relatively low price, this should do a lot for the systems performance. Other than this the system has a great deal of other worthwhile features such as motion detection, email alert notification regarding camera alerts and it also runs on Windows XP.

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