Re: WTF?

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very few DVR or nDVR makers support megapixel cameras yet. So what brand are
you using? What CIF does the 1.3 record at? Does it eat a bunch more that a
regular 540 line camera? I know that soon everyone is going to try to OEM
the Arecont camera under their own brand. I think that 8Mpix is well over 30
CIF. Going to be some big drive arrays needed for storing that stuff for
anything more than a day or so. Get rid of the RG-6 and say hello to more
Cat 5E or 6 with PoE.

"Matt Ion" <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So I stop in a site today because they say the pictures they're getting on
> their DVR are "too fuzzy" for the cops to use... find out that's because
> the cameras they're worried about - the ones on the gas pumps - are
> cheap-ass IR bullet cams that WE DIDN'T INSTALL.  But that ain't the
> screwy part...
>
> I see one input on the DVR showing NO SIGNAL... okay, I'll check that out
> once the software upgrade is done.  Finish the update, fire the server
> back up... ahh, got picture now!  Wait... a minute later... NO SIGNAL
> again.  Da hell?
>
> Look for the camera... oh nice, it's a cheap PIR motion sensor
> (functional!) with built-in pinhole cam, really ugly wiring hanging down
> the wall (obviously also NOT installed by us)... and the camera only comes
> on when motion is detected.  Soon as the "red light" goes out... so does
> the video.
>
> Cheap bastards... apparently all this junk is stuff that was GIVEN TO the
> owner's brother for money that was owed him.  Nice.
>
> Just to rub it in, I showed the owner some pics from the 1.3MP IP cameras
> I installed last week... 40 degree FOV and a license plate is still
> CLEARLY legible from a distance of 40 feet.  Sweet.