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Chapter 1 — Introduction
Features
Your color digital disk recorder provides recording capabilities for 8 camera inputs. It provides exceptional
picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features:
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8 Composite Video Input Connectors
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H.264 Codec
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Multiple Monitor Connectors: 1 VGA, 1 Spot
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Multiple Search Engines (Date/Time, Calendar, Record Table, Event)
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Real-time Recording (200 Images per Second with Very High (D1) Resolution)
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Continues Recording while Transmitting to Remote Site and during Playback
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User-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) Menu System
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Multiple Recording Modes (Time-lapse, Pre-event, Alarm, Motion and Panic)
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4-Channel Audio Recording and 1-Channel Audio Playback
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Live or Recorded Video Access via Ethernet
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Self-diagnostics with automatic notification including hard disk drive S.M.A.R.T. protocol
Technical Overview
In addition to replacing both a time-lapse VCR and a multiplexer in a security installation, your recorder has
many features that make it much more powerful and easier to use than even the most advanced VCR.
The recorder converts analog PAL video to digital images and records them on a hard disk drive. Using a
hard disk drive allows you to access recorded video almost instantaneously; there is no need to rewind tape.
The technology also allows you to view recorded video while the recorder continues recording video.
Digitally recorded video has several advantages over analog video recorded on tape. There is no need to
adjust tracking. You can freeze frames, fast forward, fast reverse, slow forward and slow reverse without
image streaking or tearing. Digital video can be indexed by time or events, and you can instantly view video
after selecting the time or event.
Your recorder can be set up for event or time-lapse recording. You can define times to record, and the
schedule can change for different days of the week and user defined holidays.
The recorder can be set up to alert you when the hard disk drive is full, or it can be set to record over the
oldest video once the disk is full.
Your recorder uses a proprietary encryption scheme making it nearly impossible to alter video.
You can view video and control your recorder remotely by connecting via Ethernet. There are two USB ports
that can be used to upgrade the system or copy video clips to external flash drives.
