What is the relationship between a DVR and security camera systems? Is DVR necessary in a security camera system? What kinds of DVRs are there? Are there substitutes for DVRs? What is a DVR anyway?
Let’s examine a basic digital video security camera system and how it operates. Afterwards, we’ll be able to answer some of the specific questions related to the DVR and security camera systems.

A basic digital video security camera system is a component system that consists of three major components:
1) One to many cameras;
2) A DVR or Digital Video Recorder; and,
3) A monitor or monitors