There are three recorders in the range that offer a choice of 4, 8 and 16 channels. All have simple front panel controls and can record up to 100fps onto expandable on-board hard drives with a choice of up to 1 terabyte storage.

Main features include a CD-ROM drive, USB memory stick and network backup facility, integrated motion detection, quadraplex function, audio recording, calendar, video loss and an integrated network adapter.

Remote access over the internet is via Internet Explorer 6 or 7 and allows the display on a single screen of images from up to 64 cameras from multiple sites.

"Our engineers have done an excellent job designing functionality that users of small CCTV systems, as well as some of the more complex systems, are demanding," says Chris Wall, Vicon's managing director "The VDR-3 series together with Kollector Elite and Kollector Pro ranges enables us to satisfy the requirement of any DVR recording application"