Can I run a 200' siamese RG59 cable from the camera to the DVR? Will the image quality degrade significantly?
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I wouldn't think it would because the quality of the line that samsung gives you isn't that great anyways. It's a stranded cable. Another thing you have to keep in mind is you will need to power up the camera some how. The samsung cable has power built in. The longest run I have is 150 and that's using samsungs cable and it looks fine.
936263
I'm really not happy with this system I changed 8 cameras already and they keep braking I would not buy this for the second time
811041
I guess you can. I haven't tried. I would do it where your dvr is first. Attach the two. Them hook up the camera to see if it works. And pic quality. They also sell 300 footers. The shielded cable work way better than the skinny black wires that come w the camera set up. I swapt all my wires out. But I always check before. On my property that's a lot of work to find out the shielded cable didn't work. Or work back to back. I have 16 cameras. And never had any problems. I switch out cameras also as time go on.
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I see something similar, possibly. We have a 622 DVR hooked up to our audio system via HDMI cable, which is sending audio and video signals to the receiver correctly, but HD channels are about half as loud as non-HD channels. I've put the receiver in a 'direct' mode to bypass the user settings, just to check, and that didn't make a difference, tried manually setting volume biases in the receiver (-X dB for analog/digital), but no luck there either. I'm thinking that it has something to do with the HDMI output rather than the A/V setup at this point. Do you see this as well?
1068428
No you can not, with that cable. You need a converter, but the converter will downgrade the video quality.
1215331
I did not notice much degradation of the video. However, I have 600tvl cameras so they aren't great to begin with. Also, if you are not running it along a way, make sure you support the cable, mine sagged and finally snapped under the weight of it spanning a 75ft gap from my house to our chicken coop.
1581914
Suggest you ask Etekcity since they've responded to prior questions. Our unit is providing HD video quality over 90 feet from its source over one Cat6
1288169
That is essentially the point of a cable like this. But DVRs, unlike most computers, sometimes have funky compatibility issues with some types of storage expansion. So your mileage may vary.
1225456
The cables included are if the lowest quality. I recommend buying a box of rg59 siamese cctv cable and the bnc male connectors you'll need.
1966881
No, we don't need to worry about loss of signal quality for this kind of 100 feet or 150 feet cable. The 100 feet length come in white. You can check the following white 100 feet cable;VideoSecu 100 Feet Video Power Pre-made All-in-One BNC RCA Cable Wire for CCTV Security Cameras CBV100 B3F
2284859
Hi. You can install a rca to coax adapter and simply crimp a RG59 coax fitting on one end of your cctv cable then you will need the cctv coax fitting on the dvr side. Another easy way would be to run a rca to cat5 adapter and you can use the extra leads/wires for the 12vblazing power. Amazon carries the cat5 to cctv adapter too. Good luck
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First, measure more precisely how long the run will be. If it is 90' then a 100' cable will be sufficient. You can order longer than 100' if needed. But a longer cable is all you'll need. I have six cameras and I placed the DVR in the center of my house. The standard 65' cables were long enough for 5 of my cameras, but I had to order a 100' cable for one camera.
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Yes, there is a BNC connector for the Analog CCTV DVR connection, but it's better to use a HD-SDI DVR to record this camera video image, it's 1080P camera afterall.
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As long as the wire that comes with camera is long enough to reach camera, you are ok. The electric and video are both in that wire. Curious about DVR answer, cause I am having issues with mine and it's been less than a year so I am thinking about going with another brand....
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Great info, thanks E-Dude! I also have Comcast's HDDVR box. I'm currently running it's HDMI directly out to the HDTV. I would run this directly into my Onkyo 606 (once I purchase it) then out to the TV. I vaguely remember the cable box having a DVI output also, I wonder if I could use a HDMI to DVI convertor adapter to run out directly to another HDMI input on the TV instead of component out to the TV? I'll have to see if I'm remembering correctly. Thanks for the tip!
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I don't know, I only use computer monitors. I have seen this question asked before, and guess that older TV's are not compatible with the software on the DVR.
996179
Thank you for your inquiry. Yes a 12volt 2amp adapter will certainly work =) The yellow BNC connection on this camera will connect it to a regular DVR (CIF, D1, 960H) and produce 600TVL resolution. The green BNC connection on this camera will connect it to a HDSDI DVR and produce 2.1 megapixel resolution. You'll only need to use one of the BNCs depending on what type of DVR you own.
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I didn't actually measure the cable for loss. However, it did check my setup with a 6 ft cable first. When I used this longer one, there was no discernable loss in picture quality