A quad is an accessory to your
surveillance system that splits a video monitor into 4 screens.
Without a quad you would only be able view one camera at a time. A
quad is only needed when you are using more than one camera and using
a VCR or VISEC to record or when you are only monitoring and not
recording at all. Below are two examples of how a quad works:
This is a surveillance
system that is monitored only:
This is a surveillance
system recording and monitoring:
The quads that we carry are high
resolution real time quads that support up to 4 cameras. You also
have the ability to playback and zoom in on recorded video.
There are other products out there
that can split a screen more than four ways. However, video quality
worsens the more ways you split a screen.
A quad is not needed when using a
Digital Video Recorder because DVRs
have a built-in quad. |
