[adomakin]

Im looking to cam up my place with some small bullet style cams for security and at the same time learn a little about this sort of thing so I can possibly install a similar system on my new build site. looking an ebay i can get hold of cheap ccd/night vision cams, even auxillery infra red illuminators, but what then? I have an old laptop that I thought I may be able to use but maybe its not trick enough to cope? It looks like i will need some sort of hub/video board for the cams to plug into...then i suppose i need a pc for the processing/storage duties...above all the image needs to be clear at night for a range of about 5-10m and the system needs to be cheap (to start with) I don't need a complex system either- maybe 2 to 4 cams, continuous recording is ok...
can anyone advise me a bit?