QC444 Video Surveillance System

I bought this DVR about a week ago at a local store on sale for about $120 + tax, it did not include a hard drive and did not include any cameras, I already had these items around the house and just wanted a cheap starting solution to monitor the house and be able to get the video or at least alerts on my iPhone. this unit had the access I needed and the ability to put the Drive size I wanted into it, so it was a good choice.

Now, I am impressed with this unit! it was easy to install the Drive (SATA Drives are simple anyway) I installed a 250GB drive I had lying around that took all of 2 minutes total with removing the 6 screws and replacing them being included in the time spent. then simply plug in cameras (using BNC connectors, you will need adaptors if your camera is a RCA connector type, like a video camera or whatever.).

once everything is plugged in, you turn it on, log in(using a mouse on a virtual keyboard which is small on the sreen but still usable) and you can setup the cameras to record in any number of configurations, from all the time to using motion detection, and a whole lot more.

if you are on a network you can setup the network and then connect to the device from a Web Browser, or smart phone, again I use the iPhone, and the free version of the application used to connect to the system is enough to get real time video of the system, if you want to get snapshots and some extra features you need to pay $.99 for the pro version of the app. but all-in-all the free one works fine for me.

the web app is free but can be tricky to setup as you need to relax the browsers security to install it, but then it works great! this unit can even connect to other units to link DVRs together, in the web app or the desktop app you can watch more then 36 cameras from different DVRs around the globe if you set it all up. and also IP webcams can be added as feeds!

I am using a combination of old Sony webcams and some older Radio shack B/W night vision cams and the system is Wonderfull with all of them but you can tell it's camera quality not the DVR if your picture is not the best. on one channel I have hooked up a networked Media player with web media capability and I set it to the weater channel and I can monitor my local weather all day from wherever I am from my phone. I cannot say enough good things about this unit (specificly the QC-444 DVR)

if you are looking for a good quality DVR to have some security around the house or office then this is a great cost effective way to go. I really don't think you will be dissapointed. there are way too many features for me to get to them all, but again it's loaded.

I will try and update this review with some pics or video as soon as I can.