Security Cameras Should All Be HD
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 4/23/2015 1:00:00 AM
Every now and then you see a story on the news where they show you a horribly fuzzy security camera photo. Why bother?
30 years ago, it was considered state of the art to install security cameras in high profile places. The cameras were crude, but they were better than nothing.
Now that camera technology has improved, you would think that most of the older cameras would be replaced by higher resolution cameras with better lenses and recording technology, but oddly... a lot cameras in use today are still pathetically useless.
What good is a camera if nobody can make out any details, such as license numbers, weapons or even faces?
While I'm on the subject, have you noticed that whenever they show most of these fuzzy security camera videos on the news, not only are they blurry, but the cameras are usually positioned in such a way that the camera is rarely strategically positioned? Most of the time, it's near the ceiling pointing down and only gets a good view of the top of people's heads. I realize that's often the best place to capture the entire room, and that a camera mounted high is also a great way to insure that people can't rip it from the wall, but since cameras can be made small enough to fit into a pack of chewing gum, it's pretty easy to find places to hide a whole bunch of strategically placed cameras.
Lastly, most security cameras were designed to cram as many images as possible into a crude recording system, so they not only intentionally compress the video to save space, but limit it to just a few frames per second, making the resulting video even more useless.
The bottom line is that if somebody wants to take the time to put in security cameras, they should make sure they actually do what they are intended to do, if not, it's time to upgrade.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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