Veteran security professionals are sure to agree that the technological progress made in the video surveillance industry over the past 20 years is nothing less than remarkable. Particularly on the recording side, what equipment manufacturers have managed to do is make something that was already good even better.
There’s a divergence of ideas within the rank and file of alarm dealers and security integrators that center on the use of analog versus digital data/image storage systems. The question is, do analog video DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) continue to provide the industry with a cost-effective, viable means of video storage? Or, is the industry steadily moving toward an all-digital NVR solution?