Vicon Industries Inc., a leading designer and producer of digital and IP video surveillance systems, is pleased to announce that it is introducing the new upgraded VDR-304/308/316 series. The VDR-304 is a 4-channel unit and is available with 160, 300 and 500 GB hard drives; the VDR-308 has 8 video channels and the VDR-316 is a 16-channel unit, both with a 300 GB hard drive. These new versions offer many new features and improvements.

The major improvement in this new series is the incorporation of high-quality MPEG-4 video compression, now providing smaller files size and superior picture quality. They also now offer multi-channel playback and backup with a 128-channel multi-viewer. All units have Quadplex simultaneous record, playback, backup and network streaming. All models boast a full D1 recording rate/resolution, a recording speed of 120 fps (real time) total for all channels and a VGA output. In addition to playback search by alarm event, the new models can search by a date/time calendar (GUI). The new DVRs provide the added benefit of remote PC access via a network/Internet; live monitoring and remote playback are available by web browser.

More information about Vicon and Vicon products may be found online at www.vicon-cctv.com.