Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 28 July 2015, 22:03:36
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My question is this.
Why in 2015 is the picture quality on CCTV so piss poor?
Grainy image after grainy image. :-\
Surely the technology exists to produce pin-sharp images.
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Cost mostly... Cheap cameras and cheap storage media for low resolution images...
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Cost mostly... Cheap cameras and cheap storage media for low resolution images...
You can buy a camera from the local petrol station for a fiver that will take sharper images.
Even the security image from the bank was as grainy as fook. :-\
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It,s like putting your old VCR on extra long play, the more you try and put on it, the crappier,(if that,s a proper word :-\)
the images are.
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Its a pain in the head compromise. To get nice clear pictures you need have a camera with adjustable focus of which someone has to zoom in and out of. If you just want to record then you use a wide angle lens which gives you an overall view of a situation. 4k cameras are coming on to the market, of which then needs terabytes of storage to keep it for any length of time.
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My road hawk dash cam takes lovely footage? ::)
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My road hawk dash cam takes lovely footage? ::)
Their quad cam hard drive system looks smart... 8)
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Institutions such as banks can surely afford the very best. They make billions each year.
Yet still we see pathetic grainy images of a person who could be anyone from Frank Bruno to Snow White.
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Institutions such as banks can surely afford the very best. They make billions each year.
Yet still we see pathetic grainy images of a person who could be anyone from Frank Bruno to Snow White.
Not sure about that. Say the difference is between a £100 camera and a £300 one. Lets say an average of 10 cameras per site, then multiply that by the number of branches and factor in the number of offices/call centers which will have even more......... for Barclays alone, assuming those figures are realistic, you are looking at a Delta of over £3m