Welcome to our site. Here you will find manufacturers and suppliers of all types of 4 camera DVR units to protect your home or business. A stand alone 4 camera DVR usually consists of a set of four night cameras, cables and digital video recorder. This is by far the simplest way to set up the system. To set up this system for your home or business, you just need the cameras, cable, and the four camera, 4 channel DVR unit, which usually come in a bundle. In addition, you just need to purchase a standard flat-screen monitor.

Most sets come with various sensors and the facility to watch the footage remotely via the internet. In a house setting, the four camera DVR can serve as a baby monitor, or a nanny cam. It could be hidden, or masked as a smoke detector. You could use a wireless option or a wired one. The choices are endless.

In a business environment, multiple camera DVR are suitable for a smaller retail establishments such as cafes, or smaller retail stores. They serve multiple roles in such establishments. The most obvious role, of course, is as a customer theft prevention and customer theft deterrent. If you have employees, you might know that employee theft is usually an even bigger concern, financially. The multi camera DVR system will help with preventing employee theft as well. The next role of a multi camera DVR is the cash register monitoring and financial loss prevention.

Finally, in a small business, a multi cam DVR system with its long term recording memory capacity, can help document any events that took place in your establishment. For example, a 4 cam DVR unit can document any liability claims and reduce, or completely remove any legal losses. It can protect your employees, even serve as a means of remote communication. Overall, it provides a store owner with a peace of mind.

Night Vision 4 Camera DVR. For monitoring the outside of the home or business, a night vision feature of a camera comes in handy. It will provide additional, undetectable, infrared light illuminating and detecting objects and events even in complete darkness, thus providing protection throughout the night. You can check out night vision Lorex security cameras here.

MJPEG, Mpeg4, H.264 DVR With Four Cameras. These labels determine the type of compression of the digital image data on the DVR's storage medium. The DVR storage medium is typically a hard disk drive. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. The main difference between them is the effectiveness of compression. For example, with the same 4 cameras, you can record more data on the same-size hard drive with the H.264 compression than with the Mpeg4 and MJPEG, or, as Lorex DVR units demonstrate, you can use a smaller hard drive to store more data.

Is hard disk drive important? It depends. The hard disk sizes range anywhere from 200 GByte to 1 TByte or more. 1 TByte stands for 1000 GByte. If you are recording over a period of a few days to a few weeks, any hard disk size will do. However, when you are concerned with storing your video data for the period of a month to several months, definitely go with a higher capacity hard drives.

Do you have to be a handyman to install these cameras? Not at all. As long as you know how to screw a screw into the wall, you will be able to confidently install the cameras and draw the cables. The standalone 4 camera DVR are designed for simplicity of setup and use, so even if you are not a computer expert, you will have the system set up in no time flat as long as you follow the directions provided with the product. Some 4 camera 4 channel DVR units even come as 4ch USB DVR, making it easy to turn your desktop or laptop into a four camera PC based DVR.

The 4 camera DVR units for home security bring you the peace of mind that your valuable asset, your house, is guarded and protected any time of the day. You would typically position your surveillance cameras inside and outside house, preferably near most vulnerable possible entrances. You could pick a 4 wireless camera DVR, or a simple 4 channel USB DVR. You might pick a small hidden camera, or you may go for a larger, well visible camera size.