your expected need to control your security cameras and manage their view will ultimately make you realize the importance of having a software to control the cameras and mange the recorded video. Having a Network video recorder software (NVR) will give you the ability to fully benefit from your security cameras. Nonetheless you have to learn some information about the available software solutions in order to make sure that you get the best software that addresses your needs. Part of learning about a specific security product is knowing the general terminologies of security softwares and some brief explanations in regards to the specifications and the general expected features. Below you will find a couple of explanations and definitions to give you a more informed shopping experience :

• VMD or Event Activated Recording: simply put, the camera will only record once it senses a movement in its view range, this saves both energy and recording space in the hard drive
• PTZ Controllers : enable you of Panning (moving side to side), tilting (moving up and down), and zooming in and out of the camera's view
• JPEG: is a format for captures images and pictures that is the most common out of the various image formats due to its relative good quality and minimal size
• AVI: is the industry standard format for videos and visual footage in general, it can be viewed on almost all computers and usually has a high image quality

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