The main Features of the Vguard DVR are as follows

1) Record multiple cctv cameras images at the same time.

2) Display from 1 to 4 cctv cameras at the same time.

3) You can adjust frame rate recording and image quality settings to maximise the balance between the number of images recorded per camera per second and the definition of the picture to maximise recording times.

4) Each individual camera can be set to record continuously, by time and date (ie only record at certain times of certain days) or by motion detection. Motion detection recording is extremely useful as it only records when the system detects movement within the cameras view. Certain parts of the picture can be blanked off from the motion detection software, so for instance if you have a tree or a bush in the picture, which would create false alarms, this motion is ignored by the system. The motion detection also has adjustments for sensitivity and number of image changes, these setting allow very accurate setting of the motion detection to eliminate false alarms/recordings.

5) The system is triplex in operation ie: It continues to record while recording are being played back and or also you can monitor live images while playing back recordings. The programme has a neat little feature that if you see an incident live you can instantly play back the incident by right clicking your mouse on the relevant camera.

6) You can search your recordings by time date or event, you can play any 4 cameras back at the same time, or individual cameras if you wish. You can pause playback, take a still image, print a still image, copy still image to floppy disk,(this image will open just about on any computer no special software is required.) You can take a clip of the video and save or copy to CDR or USB flash drive or back to to another internal or external hard drive device. The software comes with the vgc player programme which can be loaded onto any computer to play back your CD or USB recordings.

7) Each camera is stamped with time and date. Each camera can be adjusted for brightness, contrast, colour saturation and hue. This can even be adjusted on playback images as well as live images. 

8) Each card allows the input of 2 microphones for that real time audio recording can be made as well as video.

9) The system has fantastic networking, remote viewing and alarm reporting capabilities. First networking, computers fitted with the Vguard DVR cards can be networked (Lan or Wan) either to and or other computers with or without the Vguard DVR cards. This means that your Vguard DVR machine maybe in a secure place not easily accessable for day to day use, however via a standard network cable this can be linked into your computer network, therefore allowing you to view pictures, adjust settings and even playback recordings on any computer on your network. You can even download recordings to any computer on the network. These features can even be used over wan/internet. You do not need to know about networking as Vguard as its own server software to make the communication between computers simple. The connection of more than 1 Vguard DVR is also very useful, say I have a very large building and I want 4 cameras in one area and 8 cameras in another, normally i would have to run a cable from each camera back to one central point, what I can do is put 4 cameras on one DVR and 8 on the other link these into my network and then view all 12 cameras on either machine or any computer on my network. This also works for wan installations I may have several sites I wish to monitor/access remotely say from home or head office. I can connect all machines from all sites to one central point at the same time. I can select via the my channels options which cameras to monitor from which site at which time. ie: I could be watching a single camera from 16 different sites at the same time on one remote monitor screen.

10) The system supports most protocols for PTZ and speed dome cameras. The software allows you to control multiple full function cameras from either the Vguard DVR machine itself or any computer on its LAN/WAN network.

11) The system also has a hardware/software watch dog. If the DVR computer should crash or lock up or even have a mains power failure the machine will automatically restart and run all programmes as normal even reconnecting to the network.

12) The system has a e-map function this can be very useful when dealing with large installations and large networks. You can upload diagrams of your premises and mark your cameras on these diagrams. By clicking on any camera on any diagram will automatically display this camera.

13) The system can report alarm activations by several methods. A) email the system will report an alarm activation to pre set email address and attached snap shots of the alarm event. B) The system can dial a telephone to report an alarm event c) The system can contact any computer on its LAN/WAN network and send audiable alert and video of the alarm event