Advice on a cheap home CCTV system

["Simon Finnigan" <simonfinnigan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe OT, maybe not - not entirely sure :-)

Anyway, for various reasons I'd like to install a CCTV system in my home.
Any images taken would be limited to being on my own property, and anotice
would be placed at the enterance to the property explaining the situation to
cover myself under the DPA - lets leave the legal issues to the uk.legal
thread I'll be starting up :-)

My ideal system would allow me to add as many cameras as I want, and view
them remotely over the net.  Sending the images to remote storage (FTP
server, email account or similar) would be almost essential.  Realistically
I don`t expect to get a system that will run 100 cameras for my budget, but
I've seen something that I think might help. It is a camera server that
allows me to connect 4 cameras, and an audio feed.  It can be bought for
under £80 here

http://www.digidave.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=105&osCsid=92625a4e51e38b2ef685a9a4b79cfb97

Now if I get this and buy 4 normal CCTV cameras (a cheap source for these
would be greatly appreciated) I'd have a system that would let me have 4
cameras, sited where I want them (within cabling restraints), viewable over
the internet without the need to leave a PC running 24/7.

I could get an entire system up and running for under £200 without shopping
round for cheap cameras - what do people think?  I'm posting this to a few
different groups, and hopefully between them I'll catch enough people who
understand what I'm rambling on about to help me :-)  The main questions I
have are:

(1)  Do people think this is a reasonable system?  I could get say 2
independant IP Cams for this much money, but this system would give me twice
as many cameras
(2) Does anyone have a decent source for CCTv cameras?  Black and white is
fine (although colour would be nice).  Ideally at least a couple of the
cameras would have decent dark-vision (a limit of 10m would be more than
enough) - cameras that include their own IR lights/LED's and ideallt
waterproof housings would be ideal
(3)  Anyone able to suggest a better system?  4 cameras would be a bit
limiting (although I know I could add another server to this idea, that
makes it unweildy).  The alternative I can see if normal USB webcams and
software on a PC to run them and provide the same service.  This would
probably be a bit cheaper (depending on the cost of the software - anyone
got any suggestions for this), but would require a PC being on 24/7, adding
to the running costs.

Thanks everyone for any help you can give me!  I am in the UK incidentally.

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