what exactly is a video input in reference to a home security camera ?

Question by jennifer w: what just is a video clip input in reference to a residence protection camera ?
I am looking to purchase a property monitoring program and I found some but they talked about hooking up the cable to any video clip input so what are my possibilities ? I am looking to do this myself so I dont want to retain a business or an electrician to set up these for me .

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Reply by Mmm J
Any supply of video clip is "video clip output".
Any video clip keep track of or video recorder can have a "video input".

The safety digital camera will supply video clip out. In buy for you to see that video, the camcorder desires to be linked to a video input. This could be a check or Digital Video Recorder (DVR).

If the camera's video output is linked to the DVR's video clip input, then the DVR's video output should be linked to the monitor's video input.

When you look at the connectors, they ought to be marked.

This is not much distinct than any other video clip you may possibly currently have. The cable box, satellite dish, DVD player or VHS tape deck is the video source and has a video clip output that connects to the television's video input...

The link you gave us if for a tiny, reduced-finish, night vision digital camera. The cable connected to the digital camera will have three plugs.
One particular for strength. An AC adapter is integrated with the digital camera.
A single for audio. This will be a RCA, male, jack - it could be black, red or white - shade does not matter but it will NOT be yellow.
A single for video clip. This will be a yellow, male, RCA jack.

We don't know which Television you are employing so we do not know if it has any available audio or video clip inputs.

If you want to report the video clip (and audio), you would plug the camera's AV-outputs into a recorder's AV-inputs, then connect the recorder's AV-outputs to a TV's AV-inputs...

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