Digital video recording offers better quality of video, compression, search capabilities than previous video recording devices. A digital video recording system is also flexible to allow for addition of surveillance cameras into one system as security needs change.
A surveillance system backed by a digital video recording device provides the protection and knowledge of knowing what is happening at your property, even when no one is around to keep an eye on it.
How Digital Video Recording Works
Digital video recording offers the latest technology and provides better quality recoding capacities that older video recording devices do not. Digital Video Recoding offers options to store, view and record with greater ease without losing surveillance video or quality.
The digital video recorder replaces several pieces of older VHS recording devices by including a better way to record compress and store video into one unit, without the additional need for equipment to aid the process. The video stored in to a digital recorder is compressed into a format that allows numerous copies to be made, without deteriorating the quality of the original video. So if there is an event that becomes important to view and make copies of, each copy will be as clear as the original.
Once a video digital recorder is in place, there are the additional options to fit the need of your company. Some systems can be combined with motion detectors, and record only when there is movement in the recorded area, reducing the amount or recorded hours and making it easier to find events.
Other systems can be installed to the digital video recording device to feed video into a company’s server and allow viewings on an internet browser. Improving options for remote access from other locations.
Benefits of Digital Video Recording
In the past recording of video obtained from surveillance cameras has protected property and prevented crimes from occurring. Although those benefits have not changed, the implementation of digital recording technology has improved on an already widely beneficial security system. Over time the quality of digital recordings maintain their clarity better than older VHS recorders.
With this technology, video is recorded onto a digital video server, reducing the amount of equipment required to perform this function. Recordings hours obtained from digital systems are longer and can be reviewed while still recording live events. Other options in recording systems allow for usage of hardware-based RAID 1 to mirror or duplicate data onto two different hard drives, further reducing the risk of lost or destroyed data.
Digital Video Recording can be increased using a hardware-based RAID, which performs redundant recording of video. RAID 1 mirrors data onto two hard drives so that backup data is available in the event of hard disk drive failure.