Because video systems based on digital video recorders (DVRs) can make the process of storing surveillance images so much more efficient, organizations often can be easily persuaded to convert from a VCR-based system. Making the conversion from a VCR-based system to a networked DVR-based system is not difficult, if handled in an organized fashion. In this article, we look at two upgrades that security dealers have made successfully – including a step-by-step description of how they did it.
“The amount of time to find an incident went down dramatically and the quality of the video improved,†says Steve Allen, Georgia operations manager for Tech Systems Inc., Duluth, Ga. “There’s a huge difference between a tape that’s been recorded on two or three times and a digital recorder.â€