DIY CCTV Questions?

[LeperousDust]

Need a quick and cheap (and most likely dirty) CCTV solution here, need opinions and maybe guidance.

Budget is zero (isn't it always? i hate being the one tasked to find things with no money!).

Firstly I fell across an Asian site www.securitycamera2000.com, but then realised delivery will probably take a month or two, which i'm obviously unwilling to wait!

So I found the same seemingly cheap items on ebay from the UK, these:

1 Video Channel (No audio) DVR with Motion Detection:


A mini "Spy camera":


Now the camera doesn't come with a PSU itself annoyingly but the DVR does, and apparently that auction says it runs on 9v DC which excludes me from buying a cheap DC Splitter to use with the DVR, but crucially other websites i've seen this exact Asian little camera and other auctions seem to imply it's 12v DC(See here), so it's probably within working range you'd guess if i buy the splitter, or just dubious information on one auction (but which one?).


Anyway's, if i buy those and a cheapish 8Gb MicroSD card from play all those should plug together co-operate and capture motion detected CCTV under florescent light (I do not expect to rely on the "infra red" )?

Image quality would be good enough to identify people etc i guess? I'm not missing any glaring problems am i?

Total it comes to is under £40 which i feel is probably the limit of cheapness in this circumstance? But passable short term?

Any advice input or better things i should be looking at? I'd never really considered CCTV at all until this person asked me to quickly put something together by the end of the week (the joy)...

Cheers on any input, i'd rather any help on here, but for the sake of speed and breadth of people i've posted it "over there" as well even though i barely browse there now days tbh, i just know there are obviously CCTV snobs who will most likely knock me down for spending such pitiful money but also might just OK it for me

//Edit: On second thought's i won't post over there because i'd forgotten how much hassle it all is, and OcUK apparently sell CCTV so i won't be able to link to anything and i'll have to talk in code etc... all very pointless