What are you covering?

Sets how many cameras the kit starts from.

• Shop or small business70
• Large property or yard7

Is there cable there already?

Network kits run one cable per camera; coax kits reuse an older system's.

• IP / PoE62
• Turbo HD (coax)15

How many cameras?

• 6 cameras47
• 12 cameras6

What shape cameras?

Bullets point one way; turrets and domes look around from a fixed spot.

• Bullet (long body)17
• Turret (ball in a cup)45

What colour cameras?

Only kits whose cameras we can state a colour for.

• White cameras5

How much detail?

Higher numbers let you zoom further into a recording.

• 2MP99
• 4MP135
• 5MP40
• 4K77

How long should it keep footage?

Bigger drive, more days before it writes over the oldest.

• 500GB5
• 1TB3
• 2TB3
• 3TB117
• 4TB61
• 5TB100
• 6TB161
• 8TB206
• 10TB330

Roughly what would you spend?

• £500 – £1,0005
• £1,000 – £2,00049
• £2,000 – £5,00023

Any make in particular?

• Hikvision55
• Prolux22