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Equipment: VXM4B-16/1000

Product group: 16 channel DVR

Distributor: Videcon PLC

Brand: Concept Pro

Telephone: 01924 528000

Fax: 01924 528005

E-mail: [email protected]k

Available from: Videcon PLC

CE Mark Yes

awarded:

Format: MPEG-4 Compression

Recording system: EIDE HDD up to 3

Recording times: Up to 100hours at

100 FPS

Audio recording: 4 channel RCA inputs

Sound system: RCA, line level

unbalanced

Horizontal D1(704 x 576),

resolution: 2SIF(704 x 288),

SIF(352 x 288)

Supply voltage: 90-240vAC

Maximum current 140W

consumption:

Size in mm: 428 x 475 x 93

Weight: 4.8Kg (without HDD)

Warranty: 3 years

and power cables to a slim metal

cased PSU and the back panel connection PCB.

The standard of construction appears to be very

good indeed, and small touches, like neatly

dressed and clearly labelled data cables, inspires a

good deal of condence and bodes well for

reliability.

Setup and operation

Conguration at switch-on is automatic,

and the DVR goes directly into record mode

with a live display for all connected

cameras. To enter the Setup menus it is

necessary to login with an administrator

password and PIN number, and this

displays three options: System Setup,

Recording Menu and Archiving.

Selecting the Setup menu takes you to

an elegant-looking display window with

sub-menus for Display (on-screen display,

monitor, sequence and spot monitor set-

ups), Camera (title, colour setup, PTZ

setup, motion detector), Sound (audio

input and buzzer setup), System

(date/time, network, mail, system

management, user management,

control device), Event/Sensor (HDD

event, alarm in/Out, buzzer, email

notication) and Disk Manage

(overwrite on/o, format).

The Recording menu covers Recording

Operations (schedule mode, pre and post

event recording times), Timer/Motion

Setup

(resolution,

frame rate, quality and audio for

each camera), Alarm Setup (same as

Timer/Motion setup), and Panic Setup (same

options again).

On the Archiving menu there are options to

choose the storage device or medium, camera

channel and event date and time.

It's clear a lot of thought has been put into

the design of the menus, to make them easy

on the eye and simple to use, and we especially

like the way that selecting a menu item

displays all of the available sub menu options.

It's all very intuitive, though it has to be

said that any lengthy conguration jobs are

best carried out with the supplied remote

controls as trying to navigate through the

multi-layer menus using the front panel

buttons can be really hard work. Even so

it's still quite laborious, and at the risk of

spoiling an as yet unblemished record,

the designers would do well to consider

adding the facility to make and change

menu selections using a mouse.

Remote connection and operation

through a LAN or Internet connection

involves installing some client software

on the PC (Windows only

supported). Thi

displays a monitor window with a full set of on-

screen DVR controls. This broadly duplicates the

physical controls on the front of the VXM4,

including access to all of the setup and

conguration menus. Some additional and

possibly quite extensive conguration may be

required if the DVR is going to be able to connect

NORMALLY WE DON'T MENTION

instruction books this early on, and on the

occasions when we do it is usually to berate the

manufacturer for their poor translation skills,

awkward layout and design or inaccuracies. But

credit where it is due, and it may not be the most

lavish production we've seen, but the manual that

comes with the Concept Pro VXM4 16 channel

DVR is one of the best we've seen in terms of

clarity, use of language, illustrations and attention

to detail.

Now if you are expecting us to twist it around

and say that it's a pity they didn't put the same

amount of eort into their product – as is

sometimes the case – you would be wrong, and

setting up the VXM4 has been one of the least

painful experiences we've had with a sophisticated

multi-channel DVR, and believe us, we've tackled

a fair few horrors in our time…

You won't nd us grumbling about any

shortcomings in the features list either (and no,

we do not have shares in the company…). It's

a true triplex design, able to simultaneously

reco

rd andplayback whilst allowing local and

remote live viewing of all or any of the 16 camera

channels.

Recordings and still images can be exported to

CD (DVD is an option), USB memory stick or client

PCs, if it is connected to a network or the Internet.

Talking of which, it supports full remote

conguration over a LAN or WAN (including the

Internet), and it can send email notications to

specied users to warn of alarm events, motion

detection, hard drive failure and so on.

The supplied hard drive is a 500Gb device and

this can be supplemented with up to three extra

internal drives up to a maximum of 1.5Tb. It goes

without saying that recording times are as long

as piece of string, but with typical mid-range

frame rate, resolution and quality settings, the

standard drive should give around 10 days

recording time.

The DVR can be set to record continuously, or

scheduled to respond to alarm or motion events

and the image quality (four levels),

resolution (352 x 288, 704 x 288 or 704

x 576 pixels)

and frame

rate (25, 13, 8, 6,

3, 2, 1 fps) can be preset on an hour-by-

hour basis for each individual channel.

The VXM4 has four audio channels and

these can be assigned to any of the 16

video channels. Live audio can be

remotely monitored over a network or the

Internet, and as an added bonus it has a

two-way 'talkback' facility, enabling audio

transmission to a speaker-equipped

camera connected to the VXM4.

To round o the features list – and

remember we are still only on highlights –

the VXM4 supports up to four monitors

using composite, S-Video and VGA

outputs, and the displays for up to four

spot monitors can be programmed into the

unit. Conguration settings can be stored

on a USB drive or PC le, for backup or

setting up other units. It also comes with a

remote control handset, there's a digital

zoom and a full set of PTZ controls for a

wide range of domes and cameras, using a

number of popular protocols. There is a

comprehensive set of display options

(single and eight preset

and user

set multi-

image layouts) and sequence modes, more

than enough in fact to cover just about any

eventuality.

The front panel is ablaze with rows of

illuminated buttons – it really is a sight to

behold in a darkened room! On the left side

there is a bank of system control keys,

responsible for navigating the on-screen

menus, and there's also a pair of USB ports

for external memory devices. The centre

section is split into two, with the CD-RW

drive sitting above two rows of camera

selector buttons and a set of three power

on, record and network indicator LEDS.

On the right side there is a large jog-shuttle

dial and a set of playback buttons.

On the back panel there are two rows

of BNC sockets for the camera inputs,

their associated loop-throughs, and

monitor outputs (plus one S-Video

monitor socket). Beneath that there's a

row of ve phono sockets for the audio

inputs and output, two banks of spring

terminals for alarm inputs and outputs and

below that another row of sockets for USB devices,

two D-subs

for VGA output and serial comms, and

nally sockets for the LAN connection and mains

cable.

It's a fair old lump, which is surprising given the

amount of empty space inside the case, but this

does mean that it runs reasonably cool, in spite of

having only one case fan (in addition to the one

built into the power supply). This also means it is

also very quiet in operation. Inside the front of the

case are the bays for the hard drives and CD-RW

drive, behind that is one of the smallest

motherboards we've seen (not much larger than a

paperback book), and that's connected by ribbon

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What our experts

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The Concept Pro

VXM4 16-channel

DVR is going to be

hard to beat…

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