PC CCTV solution?

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Afternoon all, a long time since I've been here - good to see the forum still alive and kicking :D

Many moons ago, I installed a CCTV camera complete with a Geovision 100fps card that sat in my pc.

Everything was going along swimmingly until (an impulse purchase) I bought a new pc that ran on 64-bit Win 7. It turns out there were no drivers for my Geovision card.

So I gnashed my teeth for a few months until I've managed to actually locate some drivers that work.

Bargain......until I tried to install the Geovision software and realise I've stupidly lost the key to activate it! (I stored it in a text file on the hard drive of the pc that I've since disposed of).

Yes, I'm a muppet :confused:

But I got to thinking - technology has moved on so much there must be a cheap webcam-type of solution to the business of CCTV-ing your property? Surely?

This laptop cost less than the CCTV camera and yet it has a HD quality webcam built in (doesn't do zero lux granted) but I imagine someone must have tapped in to the principle of having a USB webcam driving some software (Windows probably has it built in these days)?

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.
 
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