On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:17:52 +0100, "Micky Savage"
wrote:
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>"Alex Heney" wrote in message
>news:h4lgb4d7tlqism6196vfhq1ldbah8prefv@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:50:09 +0100, Blah wrote:
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>>>Alex Heney wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Plug into home pc (which must be switched on 24/7!).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is an extremely expensive way of doing it.
>>>>
>>>> You can get a proper DVR with 250GB built in HD for about the same as
>>>> the price of your first link.
>>>>
>>>> And you can get decent all-weather cameras with 1/3 inch CCD for about
>>>> £80 - even the £99 one in your link only has 1/4 inch.
>>>
>>>It wasn't meant to be cheap, it was meant to be EASY for a complete
>>>newbie (as the OP is).
>>>She can walk into Maplin, get some further advice and walk out with the
>>>goods and return them if they don't work.
>>
>> Fair enough.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>DVR are not for newbies and have less features (like remote viewing)
>>>which are far more important than price.
>>>
>>
>> Mine has remote viewing. So do plenty of others.
>>
>> My kit was actually more expensive altogether than your quotes too,
>> but has 4 *good* cameras.
>>
>> I can't now actually find DVR's as cheap as they were a few months
>> ago. I was checking then when the power supply packed in on mine
>> (before I knew what the problem was, and thought I might need to
>> replace it), and found ones slightly better for under £100, while now
>> they seem to be about £130 for similar.
>> --
>> Alex Heney, Global Villager
>> Is it possible to feel gruntled?
>> To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
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>
>Got shit loads of power supplies Man.
>
>Will post you one .
>
>No Probs..
>
Thanks, but this was about 4-5 months ago now. I replaced it as soon
as I knew what the problem was.
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Alex Heney, Global Villager
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