Swann DVR4-2600 Home Security Kit Records Up to 30 Days
Swann DVR4-2600 Home Security Kit Records Up to 30 Days
Posted 02/18/2011 at 5:08am
| by Paul Lilly
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Kudos to you if you're able to blow off work for a month and take a 30-day vacation, and also to Swann for building a home security system that will keep tabs on your residence the entire time. Swann's new DVR4-2600 kit comes with four cameras and a 500GB hard drive capable of recording up to 30 days of non-stop video. And while you're away, you can check in on things with your iPhone, Android device, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile 6 phone, Symbian phone, and other devices.
"This is a flagship product for Swann in 2011. It brings together video surveillance with phone connectivity and convenience as never before. We are very excited to have launched it and it had a great response from our live demos at CES", commented Jeremy Stewart, VP Global Marketing, Swann Communications.
These aren't grainy black-and-white videos either. The system uses PRO-580 color cameras with motion triggered recording capable of up to 65 feet of night vision. And with an MSRP of $450, pricing isn't all that bad either, all things considered.
The DVR4-2600 will be available starting in March.
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georgiaray
June 15, 2011 at 1:20pm
This is great! Did this just come out on the market? I live in San Mateo, California which is a descent neighborhood but we have had a couple break-ins recently. My husband and I are thinking of taking a vacation to Hawaii soon but he's paranoid about leaving the house vacant for 2 weeks and I'm trying to convince him to go... I checked out a few home security systems but nothing really struck me (they were either too expensive or too much effort. $450 is pretty good for this though. Why does it only work for outside of the home though?? If I miss seeing someone enter the house I would like to catch them while they're in it...
johnnyathm1
February 18, 2011 at 5:35am
Nice. I assume that the signal coming from the camera is encrypted?
mikeart03a
February 18, 2011 at 6:37pm
As someone who works with CCTV cameras on a daily basis, the answer to that is no. These are analog cameras, so the signal is not encrypted as it's not necessary. The only way someone is going to see a feed from your camera is if they splice into the video feed wire. The DVR itself also is password protected, so not any old Tom, Dick and Harry can just plug in an IP address and expect to see your home no problem.
Peanut Fox
February 18, 2011 at 10:46am
Why would that matter? It's just showing what's going on outside your house. Unless you wanna stick one inside for whatever reason.
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