Welcome to our site. If you are a homeowner wanting to protect your property and your family, then this information is for you. There are three types of Home CCTV systems that you can choose from. The main types of home CCTV DVR, or Closed Circuit TV Digital Video Recorders, are mini DVR systems, standard standalone DVR type, and finally, all in one, or display-based DVR type. Let's look at all of them, with your needs in mind.

Mini DVR home CCTV type

These DVRs are based on flash, non-volatile, memory, such as Secure Digital, SD, or other flash memory cards. They can be very small, and fitting into clocks, pens, radios together with a miniature camera. They are battery powered for obvious reasons, and provide between multiple hours and multiple days of operation. An extremely miniscule yet highly functional example of this mini DVR type is the Swann SW234-PC2 2 GB DVR Pencam.

Standard DVR home CCTV type

These DVRs are usually contained in a box chassis, of a size comparable to a desktop PC computer. They have 4, 8, 16, or 32 camera inputs, and video outputs for displays, and USB outputs for external hard drives. They are controlled usually by a mouse that acts on the on-screen menus, or by the infrared remote control. Their hard disk capacity can be anywhere from several hundred Gigabytes to several Terabytes, which can provide months of recording time. A good example of this type of home CCTV DVR is VideoSecu 16 Channel CCTV Security Surveillance Camera DVS516TK. This is a network, or world wide web, enabled DVR with a spacious 1TB hard drive and MPEG4 audio/video compression. The details are here.

All-in-one DVR home CCTV type

We are saving the best for last. The recent trend of miniaturization has produced the All-in-one DVR systems that are display based. This means that the entire electronics, including the processing unit, the hard drive storage, and the camera connectors are built in the large, usually 19 in. to 22 in. display. These systems are extremely space efficient in addition to being sharp looking. A superb example of such a type of a home CCTV DVR system is Lorex L19WD1600501 19-Inch Wide Screen LCD model. Housed entirely in a 19 inch display is a powerful, 16 channel network enabled pentaplex 500GB DVR with the highest compression available today, H.264. This compresion is also used in HDTV systems. You can find the details of this DVR home CCTV model here.

For larger homes, and larger DVR units, take a look at 32 camera DVRs.