1) Do you want to look at the gate camera from
a) Computer's in your house
b) Televisions in your house
c) dedicated monitor (s) in your house
d) all of the above
Just on the lcd screen (preferably).....without running a laptop or desktop continually. Via a converter if necessary (
"their part number is # XC-4873 and is valued at somewhere around $90 for each display")
. Via a DVR if the vandalism from the passing after-pub-closes trade continues.
2) Have you already purchased the camera, and if so, what are the details?
Contractor won't disclose as it's part of his package deal (and I suspect that he doesn't waant to reveal that it's a cheap and nasty comestible run-of-the-mill piece of crud.
3) Please provide some more details on the screens you have, particularly in relation to question 1.
LCD 19" Monitors are Samsung 191 and 193P plus (quite unobtrusive computer flat screens that can sit on a shelf somewhere)
4) What cabling do you have in place?
Contract was non-specifically to provide cabling for gatehouse CCTV to house (monitor not specified). For aesthetic and space reasons, obviously the bulk and power draw of a CRT type monitor is undesirable (and an LCD TV (19") costs about $500+. Hving a number of LCD monitors laying around seemed to be the cheap and easy solution.
"Smart-wiring" is the short answer (includes TV, Muzak and broadband network cabling). In an increasingly wireless capable field, only the dumb buy "smart-wiring"(or so I latterly realize). Once you discover that the system will not be living up to your expectations, the contractor screws you for any "extras" that they neatly sidestepped in the contract.