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PACOM 4-CHANNEL User Manual - Chapter 2 ─ Installation

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  • Page 3: Warning

    4-channel digital video recorder i warning risk of electric shock do not open warning: to reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover (or back). No user-serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilater...

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    User’s manual ii important safeguards 1. Read instructions all the safety and operating instructions should be read before the appliance is operated. 2. Retain instructions the safety and operating instructions should be retained for future reference. 3. Cleaning unplug this equipment from the wall ...

  • Page 5: Table of Contents

    4-channel digital video recorder iii table of contents chapter 1 ─ introduction ......................................................................................................... 1 features...........................................................................................................

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    User’s manual iv lan setup screen........................................................................................................... 19 dvrns setup.................................................................................................................. 22 webguard setup................

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    4-channel digital video recorder v appendix c ─ webguard....................................................................................................... 66 web monitoring mode.......................................................................................................... 67 web sear...

  • Page 8: List of Illustrations

    User’s manual vi list of illustrations figure 1 ─ typical dvr installation............................................................................................................2 figure 2 ─ dvr rear panel..............................................................................................

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    4-channel digital video recorder vii figure 54 ─ motion detection settings screen.........................................................................................37 figure 55 ─ motion detection sensitivity screen...................................................................................

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    User’s manual viii.

  • Page 11: Chapter 1 ─ Introduction

    4-channel digital video recorder 1 chapter 1 ─ introduction features your color digital video recorder (dvr) provides recording capabilities for four camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: y 4 composite video input c...

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    User’s manual 2 your dvr uses a proprietary encryption scheme making it nearly impossible to alter video. You can view video and control your dvr remotely by connecting via ethernet. There are two usb ports that can be used to upgrade the system or copy video clips to external hard disk, cd-rw and f...

  • Page 13: Chapter 2 ─ Installation

    4-channel digital video recorder 3 chapter 2 ─ installation package contents the package contains the following: y digital video recorder y power cord y user’s manual (this document) y ras software cd and user’s manual y rack-mount kit required installation tools no special tools are required to ins...

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    User’s manual 4 video loop through note: the loop bnc connectors are auto terminated. Do not connect a cable to the loop bnc unless it is connected to a terminated device because it will cause poor quality video. Video out a vga connector is provided so that you can use a standard, multi-sync comput...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 5 ai 1 to 4 (alarm-in): you can use external devices to signal the dvr to react to events. Mechanical or electrical switches can be wired to the ai (alarm-in) and gnd (ground) connectors. The threshold voltage is 4.3v and should be stable at least 0.5 seconds to be d...

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    User’s manual 6 power cord connector connect the ac power cord to the dvr and then to a wall outlet. Warning: route power cords so that they are not a tripping hazard. Make certain the power cord will not be pinched or abraded by furniture. Do not install power cords under rugs or carpet. The power ...

  • Page 17: Front Panel Controls

    4-channel digital video recorder 7 chapter 3 ─ configuration note: your dvr should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to chapter 2 ─ installation. Front panel controls figure 3 ─ dvr front panel. Camera buttons hdd led alarm out led network led clip copy led power led panic button alar...

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    User’s manual 8 network led the network led is lit when the unit is connected to a network via ethernet. Clip copy led the clip copy led is lit when the dvr is clip-copying. Power led the power led is lit when the unit is on. Panic button pressing the panic button starts panic recoding of all camera...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 9 playback button pressing the playback button enters the playback mode, and pressing the button again exits the playback mode. When entering the playback mode, video is paused. Pressing the arrow button plays back video at regular speed. The screen displays when the...

  • Page 20: Turning On The Power

    User’s manual 10 turning on the power connecting the power cord to the dvr turns on the unit. The unit takes approximately 60 seconds to initialize. Initial unit setup before using your dvr for the first time, you will want to establish the initial settings. This includes items such as time and date...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 11 system information highlight information and press the button. The information screen appears. Figure 7 ─ information screen. In the information screen, you can name the site location, assign a system id number, select the language the screens are displayed in, di...

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    User’s manual 12 to upgrade the software, connect a usb device containing the upgrade package file to the dvr. Highlight upgrade… and press the button. The upgrade screen appears. Caution: the usb device must be fat16 or fat32 format. You can import saved dvr settings or export the current dvr setti...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 13 the box beside recorded data – from / to displays the time information of recorded data. Highlighting clear all data… and pressing the button will clear all video data. You will be asked to verify that you wish to clear all data before the dvr erases the video dat...

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    User’s manual 14 highlight the format box beside time and press the button. Select from the three available time formats and press the button to save your selected format. Note: the clock will not start running until you have highlighted save and pressed the button. Highlight the box beside time zon...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 15 highlight the box beside automatic sync. And press the button. This toggles between on and off. Highlight the box beside time server and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears that you can use to enter the ip address or domain name of the time server. Note: ...

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    User’s manual 16 note: when the storage condition is bad, the event status – storage screen displays and you can check the storage condition for details. Once the “bad” message displays, replacing the hard disk drive is recommended, usually within 24 hours. Note: temperature and s.M.A.R.T. Informati...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 17 to add a group, highlight the + group… box and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter the group name. The authority levels that can be turned on and off are: y shutdown ─ the user can shut the system down on a local system. Y upgrade ─ ...

  • Page 28: Network & Notification Setup

    User’s manual 18 highlighting the box beside auto login allows you to select a user to be automatically logged in when the dvr is powered up. It can also be set to never automatically login a user. Highlighting the box beside auto logout allows you to select from a list of times that the user will b...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 19 figure 22 ─ network setup screen. Highlight the first box beside transfer speed. Press the up and down arrow buttons to set the transfer speed from 50kbps to 100mbps. Highlight the second box beside transfer speed. You can select the unit of measure for the transf...

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    User’s manual 20 figure 23 ─ lan (manual) setup screen. Highlight the box beside type and press the button. You can select the type of network configuration from: manual, dhcp and adsl (with pppoe). Select the desired type and press the button. Selecting manual from the type allows you to set up lan...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 21 caution: when changing the port settings, you must change the port settings on the pc running ras or webguard as well. Refer to the ras manual for details. Selecting dhcp from the type and highlighting save button reads the current ip address of the dvr configured...

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    User’s manual 22 dvrns setup highlight the dvrns tab, and the dvrns screen displays. Figure 27 ─ dvrns setup screen. Note: when lan settings have been changed, set up the dvrns after saving your lan changes by highlighting save and pressing the button. Highlight use dvr name service and press the bu...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 23 highlighting save and pressing the button registers the dvr on the dvrns server. Proper dvrns settings will display the help desk information of the dvrns server in the box beside help desk. Webguard setup highlight the webguard tab, and the webguard screen displa...

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    User’s manual 24 highlight enable and press the button to toggle between on and off. You will only be able to change the settings if mail is enabled. Highlight the box beside smtp server and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears that you can use to enter the ip address or domain name of the s...

  • Page 35: Configuring Devices

    4-channel digital video recorder 25 highlight lan and press the button to toggle between on and off. When lan is turned on you can change the ip addresses. Highlight the ip address box that you want to change and press the button. Use the arrow buttons to enter the ip address of the computer you wan...

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    User’s manual 26 figure 34 ─ camera ptz setup screen. Note: you will only be able to set up ptz devices if the ptz port is set to rs232 or rs485. Highlight the box in the product column for the ptz camera you wish to configure and press the button. A list of ptz devices appears. Select your camera f...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 27 figure 37 ─ audio setup screen. The dvr can record up to two audio inputs. Highlight the box beside the input and press the button. A list of cameras appears, and you can select which camera you want associated with that audio input. Highlight enable audio-out and...

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    User’s manual 28 the day box allows you to select the days that the alarm schedule will be active. The choices are: sun, mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, m~f, hol and all. The range box allows you to set the time that the alarm schedule will be active in 15-minute increments from 00:00 to 24:00. The mo...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 29 y camera title ─ the camera title displays at the top-left corner of each camera screen. Y record ─ the record related icons display on each camera screen. Y ptz ─ the icon displays on each ptz camera screen. Y text-in ─ the text input strings display on the scree...

  • Page 40: Recording Settings

    User’s manual 30 remote control screen highlight remote control in the devices menu and press the button. The remote control setup screen allows you to select a port and make correct settings for a remote keyboard. Figure 42 ─ remote control setup screen. Highlight the box beside port and select bet...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 31 figure 44 ─ record setup screen. Highlighting recycle and pressing the button toggles between on and off. In the recycle mode, the dvr records over the oldest video data once all available storage space has been used. When recycle is turned off, the dvr stops reco...

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    User’s manual 32 you can save your record settings by highlighting save and pressing the button. Selecting cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Schedule screen highlight schedule in the record menu and press the button, and the schedule setup screen appears. Figure 45 ─ schedule (simp...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 33 highlight the box under the day heading and press the button to change the days that the scheduled recording will take place. Choose from: sun, mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, m~f, hol and all. Highlight the box under the range heading and press the button to change...

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    User’s manual 34 note: when multiple events are detected at the same time from a specific channel, the dvr will record event video with the high setting values if the ips, quality, resolution and dwell values of events are different from each other. However, the ips will be reset to the supported ma...

  • Page 45: Event Settings

    4-channel digital video recorder 35 you can turn individual cameras on or off for pre-event recording. The image speed can be set from 0.10 to 30.00 ips (25.00 ips pal), and image quality can be selectable from very high, high, standard and low. You can set the amount of time to record prior to the ...

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    User’s manual 36 highlight the actions tab, and the alarm-in actions setup screen appears. Figure 52 ─ alarm-in actions screen. You can set the actions the dvr will take whenever it senses an input on one of its alarm input connectors. Highlight the desired box under the record heading, and press th...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 37 motion detection screen highlight motion detection in the event menu and press the button. The motion detection setup screen appears. Figure 54 ─ motion detection settings screen. Your dvr has built-in video motion detection. Video motion detection can be turned o...

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    User’s manual 38 figure 57 ─ motion detection zone menu. You can adjust the minimum number of detection blocks that must be activated to trigger a motion alarm. Highlighting the box under the min. Blocks heading and pressing the button allow you to adjust the minimum number of detection blocks for d...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 39 figure 60 ─ motion detection actions screen. The dvr can be set to react to motion detection differently for each camera. Each camera can be associated with another camera, trigger an alarm-out connector, sound the dvr’s internal buzzer, notify a number of differe...

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    User’s manual 40 video loss screen highlight video loss in the event menu and press the button. The video loss setup screen appears. Figure 61 ─ video loss settings screen. The dvr checks to see if anything is obscuring the camera. Highlight the slider bar beside check obscuration, and use the left ...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 41 highlight the box under the alarm-out heading and press the button. Select between alarm output and beep (dvr’s internal buzzer) that you would like to activate and to sound whenever the dvr detects video loss on the selected camera. Note: for the alarm-out action...

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    User’s manual 42 figure 64 ─ text-in device settings screen. Highlight the box beside port, and press the button. Select from none, rs232, rs485 and usb-serial (1~4). Note: if you have set the port as none, you will not be able to make any changes to the screen. Note: when using the usb to serial te...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 43 highlight the box beside ignore string, and press the button. Use the virtual keyboard to enter any strings of text that you want the dvr to ignore. Refer to the device manufacturer’s documentation for text strings that the device sends during transactions, so you...

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    User’s manual 44 highlight the desired box under the ptz heading, and press the button. A list of ptz presets appear. Select the preset positions for each ptz camera, where you want ptz cameras to move to when the dvr detects text input. You can save your text-in changes by highlighting save and pre...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 45 highlight the storage tab and the storage screen displays. Figure 68 ─ storage screen. Highlight the box beside disk bad notify, and press the button. Select percentage level of bad disk sectors at which you want the dvr to trigger an alert. Percentage levels rang...

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    User’s manual 46 the dvr can be set to react to system events. System events can activate the alarm-out connector, sound the dvr’s internal buzzer, and/or notify a number of different devices. Highlight the alarm-out box beside the desired event (check recording, check alarm-in, disk almost full, di...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 47 panic record will be highlighted while the dvr is in the panic recording mode. Disk almost full will be highlighted when the dvr is not in the recycle mode and the level of disk usage reaches the disk almost full percentage you made in the system event setup scree...

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  • Page 59: Chapter 4 ─ Operation

    4-channel digital video recorder 49 chapter 4 ─ operation note: this chapter assumes your dvr has been installed and configured. If it has not, please refer to chapters 2 and 3. The dvr’s controls are similar to a vcr. As with a vcr, the main functions are recording and playing back video. However, ...

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    User’s manual 50 note: any image adjustments you make will be applied to both the live video on the monitors and the recorded video. Sequence mode pressing the sequence button causes the cameras to display sequentially. Pressing the sequence button or one of the camera buttons exits the sequence mod...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 51 you can save camera position settings as “presets” so that you can go directly to desired views. Once you have the camera at the desired settings, press the button on the front panel or select set preset from the ptz menu, and the ptz preset dialog box will appear...

  • Page 62: Using A Mouse

    User’s manual 52 using a mouse you can use a mouse instead of the front panel buttons to perform many of the dvr functions. The following operations are supported when using a mouse during live monitoring. When in quad (2x2) display mode, clicking the mouse button on a camera image switches that cam...

  • Page 63: Recording Audio

    4-channel digital video recorder 53 although you will be able to record without changing the unit from its original factory settings, you will want to take advantages of the dvr’s many tools. See chapter 3 ─ configuration for detailed descriptions of the recording mode options. Recording audio if th...

  • Page 64: Searching Video

    User’s manual 54 the individual controls on the toolbar perform the following functions as described below: go to the first image fast backward play go to the previous image play go to the next image fast forward play go to the last image searching video pressing the menu button or clicking the righ...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 55 once you have set the date and time you want, press the button. Then highlight go and press the button. The selected date and time will display. (if no video was recorded during the selected time, a message appears alerting you that no image was recorded at that t...

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    User’s manual 56 selecting located at the bottom displays the search menu. Selecting located at the bottom displays the calendar search screen. Figure 82 ─ calendar search screen. Selecting located in top-left corner exits the record table search screen. Event log search figure 83 ─ event log search...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 57 highlight the box beside check time overlap and press the button. It toggles between on and off. You will only be able to turn the check time overlap on or off if a user-defined date and time is set to from and to. If the dvr’s date and time have been reset, it is...

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    User’s manual 58 text-in search figure 85 ─ text-in search screen. The dvr maintains a log of each time there is text input. The text-in search screen displays this list. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video. Pressing the (play/pause) button will extract...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 59 note: the following description is for a generic text device. The screen changes for different types of text input devices, and there will be different parameter boxes for you to enter information. Highlighting the + and pressing the button allows you to add a new...

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    User’s manual 60 figure 88 ─ motion search option screen. Highlight the box beside to and press the button to toggle between on and off. When set to off, you can enter a specific date and time. When set to on, the search will be from the last recorded image. Highlight the box beside type and press t...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 61 pressing the clip copy button during the playback will set the starting point of the video to be clip copied, and the icon displays at the bottom-left corner of the screen. Pressing and holding the clip copy button for three seconds or longer again will set the en...

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    User’s manual 62 the dvr automatically assigns a file name to the video clip. However, you can give the video clip file a different name. Highlight the box beside file name and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears. Enter a file name for the video you are backing up and select close. The dvr ...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 63 appendix a ─ usb hard disk drive preparation preparing the usb hard disk drive in windows 2000 note: preparing a usb hard disk drive under windows xp and windows vista is almost identical to windows 2000. 1. Connect the usb hard disk drive to your computer using t...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 65 in the above text-in data, you can find that the comparison value is located at 17 th (unit price, $ mark will be ignored automatically), 28 th (qty) and 40 th (amount) characters (including spaces) from the left, but the value of amount category is located on a d...

  • Page 76: Appendix C ─ Webguard

    User’s manual 66 appendix c ─ webguard webguard allows you to access a remote dvr, monitor live video images and search recorded video using internet explorer web browser anytime from virtually anywhere. Computer system requirements for using the webguard program are: y operating system: microsoft ®...

  • Page 77: Web Monitoring Mode

    4-channel digital video recorder 67 note: when running webguard in the microsoft windows vista operating system, it is recommended to start internet explorer with elevated administrator permissions. Click the right mouse button on the internet explorer icon and select the run as administrator option...

  • Page 78: Web Search Mode

    User’s manual 68 ⑥ click the camera button (1 to 4) to select the camera to be viewed. ⑦ click the to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of monitoring image. ⑧ click the to control pan, tilt and zoom of the camera from a remote site. ⑨ click the to control alarm out devices at the r...

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    4-channel digital video recorder 69 figure 92 ─ websearch screen. ① click the to log out the webguard program. ② click the to access to the web monitoring mode. ③ position the mouse pointer on the websearch logo to see the version of the webguard program. ④ the dvr information window displays the ti...

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    User’s manual 70 ⑫ click the to reload the recording data. ⑬ the timetable displays recorded data of the selected camera by time (in hour segments). ⑭ selecting a camera on the screen and clicking the right mouse button displays the text menu screen. Y change camera title: changes the camera name. Y...

  • Page 81: I/o Connector Pin Outs

    4-channel digital video recorder 71 appendix d ─ troubleshooting problem possible solution no power y check power cord connections. Y confirm that there is power at the outlet. No live video y check camera video cable and connections. Y check monitor video cable and connections. Y confirm that the c...

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    User’s manual 72 appendix f ─ map of screens.

  • Page 83: System Log

    4-channel digital video recorder 73 appendix g ─ system log and error code notices system log boot up setup begin panic off shutdown setup end clear all data restart remote setup change format disk upgrade remote setup fail disk full upgrade fail setup imported auto deletion time change setup import...

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    User’s manual v1.0 74 appendix h ─ specifications video signal format ntsc or pal (auto detect) video input composite: 4 looping inputs, 1 vp-p, auto-terminating, 75 ohms monitor outputs composite: 1 bnc, 1 vp-p, 75 ohms vga: 1 (auto detect) video resolution composite: 720x480 (ntsc), 720x576 (pal) ...