Non-IP Camera - Is it just a component output

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I have used ip cameras before but helping my father in law who wants a single camera to monitor the front door. he wants to dispaly that camera on a single monitor so we were thinking of going with regualr CCTV.

Are the output on these just component outputs? they seem to be a 480p image in most cases.

Can anyone recommended a 5" or so monitor that could be mounted either flush wall or semi recessed?
 
I have used ip cameras before but helping my father in law who wants a single camera to monitor the front door. he wants to dispaly that camera on a single monitor so we were thinking of going with regualr CCTV.

Are the output on these just component outputs? they seem to be a 480p image in most cases.

Can anyone recommended a 5" or so monitor that could be mounted either flush wall or semi recessed?

Most have a composite output, a few have s-video. Most of the newer flat panel monitors have composite inputs so they should connect up directly to the camera.

Or you could get an old analog catv modulator off of ebay and put the camera on a tv channel, search for "modulator blonder". I have 6 of them.
If you have digital cable and soem $ to spend you could also get one of these systems - then he could see the modulated feed on any tv in the house.
http://www.channelvision.com/index.php/AFF...l-products.html
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....Are the output on these just component outputs? they seem to be a 480p image in most cases.
Most stock cameras used for surveillance have "old fashioned " standard video. It is called composite video or just video, with image color and image brightness as separate signals overlayed into the same transmission signal. The signal transmission is analog and the resolution is usually expressed in terms if equivalent TV lines or TVL. These cameras vary in resolution of 200 TVL to 600 TVL. 480p is a digital transmission, but the numbers of the two protocols are roughly equivalent in terms of apparant resolution.

[Component video is also analog but has separate wires for the three color brightness signals].

If anyone knows I am interested in the 5" monitor also...as I cannot find anything reasonable in price...only in the $200 range. That is rediculous when I can get a DVD player with monitor for less than that.
 
If anyone knows I am interested in the 5" monitor also...as I cannot find anything reasonable in price...only in the $200 range. That is rediculous when I can get a DVD player with monitor for less than that.

As soon as every soccer mom in her mini van and parents who "parent" by placing their kid in front of a DVD movie want a basic composite video monitor only with no DVD then, and only then, will we see the prices in the same range.

You might be better off hacking up a portable DVD player to see if you can make it work.

An RF modulator might be the best option
 
I was checking ADI (low voltage alarm supplier) and best 6"-8" monitor I could come up with was almost $500.. That kinda cracks me up as I had a Sony watchman little TV 15 years ago and it couldnt have been more then $200. I was even able to pick up some ELO 15" touch screens for less then that.



If anyone knows I am interested in the 5" monitor also...as I cannot find anything reasonable in price...only in the $200 range. That is rediculous when I can get a DVD player with monitor for less than that.

As soon as every soccer mom in her mini van and parents who "parent" by placing their kid in front of a DVD movie want a basic composite video monitor only with no DVD then, and only then, will we see the prices in the same range.

You might be better off hacking up a portable DVD player to see if you can make it work.

An RF modulator might be the best option
 
If anyone knows I am interested in the 5" monitor also...as I cannot find anything reasonable in price...only in the $200 range. That is rediculous when I can get a DVD player with monitor for less than that.

As soon as every soccer mom in her mini van and parents who "parent" by placing their kid in front of a DVD movie want a basic composite video monitor only with no DVD then, and only then, will we see the prices in the same range.

You might be better off hacking up a portable DVD player to see if you can make it work.

An RF modulator might be the best option

Here you go, 7" LCD for $77. Good reviews also:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.22660
 
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