Axis provide a 120-page Technical Guide to Network Video – free to download from their website.

Ideal for a bit of light reading in that quiet period between Christmas and New Year.

From the Introduction:

The move to open video systems—combined with the benefits of networking, digital
imaging, and camera intelligence—constitutes a far more effective means of security
surveillance and remote monitoring than has ever been reached before. Network video
provides everything that analog video offers, plus a wide range of innovative functions
and features that are only possible with digital technology.
Before setting up your own system, you need to consider what features are required.
It is equally important to consider factors such as performance, interoperability,
scalability, flexibility and future-proof functionality. This guide will walk you through
these factors, helping you to achieve a solution that fully takes advantage of the
potential of network video technology.

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It’s Christmas Eve and there’s only one high-tec camera worth checking today.

NORAD the North American Air Defence service musters all their technical know-how and electronic wizardry in an attempt to Track Santa.

Will they manage to capture HD video evidence of Father Christmas and his reindeers in full flight this Christmas!?!?!

Click the image to learn all about Santa’s sleigh!!

A Merry Christmas to one and all …

Sanyo have launched a new 4MP HD CCTV camera – their model VCC-HD4000.

They’ve built a rockin’ promo website to launch this new IP CCTV camera (switch your speakers on!).

It’s got a great specification, including:

• 4 megapixel camera
• built-in 10X optical zoom lens with auto-focus
• 16X digital zoom in addition to the optical zoom
• Day/Night capability with IR cut-filter
• Dual stream H.264 and JPEG
• POE (Power Over Ethernet) ready
• SD memory card slot for video storage at the camera
• USB port for direct attached USB HDD
• HDMI port

Sanyo VCC-HD 4000 IP CCTV Camera now available to buy online from our webshop.

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Once again this week somebody quoted this statistic:

Of course IP is only 5% of the CCTV Market.

Can that really be so?

If you take a look at our IP CCTV Facts page you’ll see that it’s being adopted by some fairly serious end-users, and used in some fairly big system applications.

You have to wonder whether stats such as these, once created, simply get trotted-out ad infinitum:

• 4million CCTV cameras in the UK
• one camera for every 14 people
• you’ll be caught on CCTV 300 times a day

These numbers have been quoted for about the past five years now!

Who is counting?

How?

ACTi have recently upgraded their free NVR software application.

The NVR 2.2 is the first FREE 64-channel management software supporting MJPEG, MPEG4 and the most efficient compression standard – H.264.

NVR 2.2 supports ACTi’s full product range of IP cameras and video servers; Box, Bullet, Fixed Dome, PTZ and Speed Domes. All resolutions from VGA up to Megapixel are supported.

Additionally, users can select real-time live view monitoring, recording and playback with simultaneous 64-channel window display. With the enhancement of overall control management, NVR 2.2 empowers users a smooth and fast operating speed while processing multiple tasks at the same time.

ACTi is the only IP camera manufacturer offering FREE “server-client” software with streaming engine. Our complete unified solution includes a full line of hardware devices and management software that enables customers to easily enjoy anytime/anywhere video monitoring without any extra licensing costs or maintenance fees.

Other key feature enhancements along with the formal release of NVR 2.2 are highlighted as the followings.

· Auto Upgrade

· Supports New OS

· Supports ACTi New Products

· Enhanced Playback Speed Control

· Event ID Supported

· AccessKey to Maintain Image Aspect Ratio

· Export Video in AVI format or JPEG Files

· Enhanced Digital Zoom Operation

NB ACTi’s NVR software is currently only compatible with their own brand of network cameras and servers.