Darren, That is a really cool concept. Would the pc act as the storage device as well?

One of the aspects I like with virtual appliances is that they reduce the risk of the installer making a mistake and cut down on the time to set up. How would you support analog cameras? One of the big advantages of traditional appliances is the built in encoder card. And given how significant analog cameras are to Envysion's core market, how would this work?

Yes! The PC at the remote site would work like a dedicated Envysion DVR, storing video.

Integrators and resellers who are comfortable installing capture cards into a PC's could do this very thing. We have a short list of cards we are compatible with today. My biggest question is, do they want to? We're happy to continue making our EnVR appliance. But we'd really love to sell as many subscriptions to our software as possible and let other folks build the hardware, do the install and so on.

Hi Darren, once you have to install capture cards on site, I feel it defeats the purpose of virtual appliances. If you have a QSR with 500 sites, the cost and complexity of installing capture cards becomes quite inefficient. I pretty much think you are stuck with deploying appliances until IP cameras become mainstream in your core markets (which may not be for years).

Do you think there might be other markets where a downloadable NVR (or hybrid DVR w/ capture card) might be interesting?

I think segments with large camera counts but low IT skills would benefit. Example would include schools, big box retailers, prisons.