Very true

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nutphillips on October 6th, 2019 at 21:34 UTC »

Enhance

justgetoffmylawn on October 6th, 2019 at 22:48 UTC »

Why are people talking about whether you need 4K or 1080p or 720p?

You could easily record H265 480p in 12fps and have really good quality and use LESS storage than current systems. It's not just a storage issue - it's legacy systems from 10 years ago for specialized applications that are incredibly overpriced and using obsolete tech.

This happens in all niche businesses. Costco is probably using the same system they bought into 10 years ago for $500k per store and no one wants to upgrade it. Meanwhile, hard drives and cameras have improved a teensy bit in the last decade.

If you changed NOTHING about a system other than switched from MJPEG to H265, you'd probably cut your storage needs by maybe 50-fold? So improve your camera and your compression algorithm and save space.

Companies are still using COBOL and FORTRAN in mission critical programs, so don't expect surveillance tech to all be upgraded any time soon.

TheCajunYankee on October 7th, 2019 at 00:26 UTC »

This will be buried but 20 years ago I worked for a company that service bank technology. They never think about their cameras until they get robbed and the footage is unusable.

Doesn’t help that all that technology is usually hanging out in the elements or some janitor is told to dust around the cameras and knock them out of focus