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📸Cameras & Camera Software => Camera General Discussion => Topic started by: marineau on November 19, 2006, 06:27:22 PM

Title: WTB (Pre-Purchase Advice): Wired or Wireless? Color or Black & White?
Post by: marineau on November 19, 2006, 06:27:22 PM

I'm planning to buy two cameras.
First camera to supervise the road if a car comes !
Second to view a driveway vis-a-vis my garage !
I want use these cameras while a night !

I will connect these cameras to my TV 48" in my living room !

I'm ask me if I have to buy a cameras Wireless or wired !
I'm ask me If I will buy a Color camera or Black&White !

What is a best ?
What does you suggest me, and why ?


[TTA Edit: Re-word subject to maximize replies.]

Title: Re: WTB (Pre-Purchase Advice): Wired or Wireless? Color or Black & White?
Post by: David Mark on December 24, 2006, 10:41:27 PM

Black and white if used at night, though the driveway floodlight camera works well (as it has its own light that comes on with the camera at night.)  If you get two wireless (floodlight is wireless), you can use them both with one video receiver.  If you use two wired cameras, you will only fill up half of a quad processor, so I would say go wireless.  Be forewarned that the wireless video is not of the greatest quality and can be prone to noise from all sorts of things.  Good enough for a security VCR, motion capture, etc., but not much to look at.  In one particular room, they look like bad TV reception with jagged lines popping up randomly, etc.  Still haven't tracked down which device is doing that, but don't really care as the room with the VCR has decent reception.