MacGroup, I want to solicit some expert advice from the group. I have contacted Mark and Ward at MacTown, and they are checking, but it could be that someone in the group would also be able to help.
I am building a home and I want to install security camera's at each of the entrances. I was going to use the ADT folks, for they had said their system would be able to integrate the security with the video...not quite so as it was explained. Now I have to have two different systems, one for security, one for video. I want the ability to observe and record to a hard drive the activity around the house. Each door is electrical and cable wired. What ADT had to offer was very expensive for what you get. A 30 gig. Hard drive that stamps date and time to the video, has a few buttons to push to move from one camera to another was so expensive, to add an Ethernet card would add $1,000.00! I ask if I couldn't just run the four coax cables to a box that would then use Ethernet (or firewire) to feed a computer, and of course they said yes...if I could find a vendor that would build such a box and if it would interface with the MAC. Hopefully I have given enough that someone can point me in a direction that will help....many thanks in advance. As the MAC is the premier machine for the video world, I feel someone out there must have a product that will adapt. John Robinson profile at aye.net | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
