Need a Surveillance Cameras for my business?

Question

Ive seen some ones on ebay that are pretty cheap. Im wondering how they work because they are about $30 and are just the camera only. Can you hook them up to any old tv and vcr? Any advice/help would be appreciated

Answer 1

if you wan the complete kit for security camera's try radio shack .

Answer 2

You get what you pay for...

http://shop2.outpost.com/search;jsession...

And yes... you can typically connect these surveillance cameras to any TV with an available video-in (normally yellow) RCA jack. You may also need power. Some have a mic... some have infrared emitters for night vision...

The other camera types and connections use USB or firewire - that's how you connect directly to a computer) or you can ge a networked camera that gets connected to an ethernet computer network...

Pro-grade cameras typically reuire coax cabling and special connectors...

Since we don't know why you need the camera or what your budget is or how good the image quality needs to be, it is difficult to suggest anything.

I use these outside:

http://shop2.outpost.com/product/5080315...

Connected to something like this (inside):

http://shop2.outpost.com/product/5315908...

And monitor stuff on a couple of plain old 15" LCD flatpanel TVs located throughout the space...