On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:50 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > ...but my manage says he'd like to > get out of the business of making video surveillance work, when there's > off-the-shelf stuff out there. Sounds like a classic problem where you have three requirements... 1. "Just works" / off-the-shelf, no management required 2. Quality & reliabilty 3. Low cost ...but can only choose two. :) Just from reading user reviews of the low cost stuff, it sounds like you sacrifice quality & reliability for ease-of-use & convenience. But even those features are suspect, if the reviews are to be believed. Just my $0.02 :)