The idea of recording intruders is not exactly new – it’s been around even before Adam bought Eve their first Betamax VCR.

In recent times, VCRs have been replaced by DVRs, or Digital Video Recorders. The difference is that in a DVR, the image is recorded directly to a hard disk instead of going onto tape.

The main advantage of this is that recording times can be very long indeed, limited only by the size of the hard disk drive (and these days, that’s huge!).

DVRs also aren’t exactly the latest kid on the block – they’ve been around for a few years now.

But this "Watchguard" DVR4ENTPACK system, submitted to us for evaluation from RhinoCo Technology, seemed to us to be the ideal security solution for two reasons: the quality of the images (how often have you seen almost unrecognisable CCTV images of crooks on TV?) but more importantly, everything comes in the box.