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

We’ll be adding this new camera to our webshop early in the New Year, if you can’t wait until then just get in touch …

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There’s a good article illustrating and explaining the advantages of rectilinear wide angle lenses over at IP Video Market Info.

Rectilinear lenses enable you to set up wide angle views without those rounded corner fish-eye effects that you’d normally get with a standard wide-angle lens.

These lenses are rated for use with megapixel IP cameras and are ideal for providing ultra-wide covearge with the megapixel resolution maintained right out to the edges of the field of view.

Theia lenses are available from our online web shop.

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Avigilon have announced a new range of vandal-resistant megapixel dome cameras.

These new Avigilon HD colour/mono domes will be available in 1, 2, 3 and 5 mpix camera models as per their current HD body camera range.

There will also be a range of variants with built-in IR LEDs for night-time illumination.

We’re anticipating that these new products will deliver a great new value proposition; as VR domes they include the camera, lens and outdoor housing all in a single easy-to-install, POE-enabled, IP camera package.

Just as soon as the full information and datasheets become available we’ll add these fantastic new products into our IP CCTV shop.

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Megapixel resolution - what do we mean by megapixel?

Before network IP CCTV cameras came along the resolution of traditional analogue CCTV cameras (connected by co-ax) was measured in TeleVision Lines (TVL).

This TVL parameter indicated that if you ran your finger horizontally across a CCTV image this would be the number of vertical lines that you would be able to resolve. Obviously, the higher the number the greater the level of detail indicated.

The highest specification analogue colour CCTV cameras currently available can resolve to 540-560 TVL. Monochrome (black & white) analogue CCTV cameras perform slightly better and the best will claim somewhere around 620TVL.

Just to put these analogue TVL figures in perspective with the current IP camera performance - 540TVL is equivalent to 0.4 Megapixels.

Pixels is a term of resolution used commonly in the IT world. Computer monitors will have their resolution specified by means of a horizontal and a vertical pixel resolution e.g. 1440 x 900 pixels.

Digital still cameras also express their resolution capability in terms of pixels, of course nowadays these too all deliver megapixel images.

A typical megapixel IP CCTV camera might have a resolution specification of 1920 x 1080 pixels.

If you multiply the horizontal (1920) by the vertical (1080) pixels you get a total pixel count of 2,073,600 pixels.

This value may also be expressed as 2.073 Megapixels (Mega equals millions).

It is interesting to note that the co-ax connected analogue CCTV camera has been stuck at or below the current glass ceiling of 560TVL for about the past five years.

In an era when you can readily purchase a mobile phone with a built-in 8 megapixel camera, why would anybody install a security imaging solution based upon co-ax which is unlikely to ever exceed 1/20th of the performance of a mobile phone?

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Megapixel CCTV cameras are often dismissed as an expensive technology, beyond the budgets of ordinary end-user applications.

Take a look at this video clip from the ACTi ACM-4200 Megapixel Cube Camera.

It’s a 1.3 Megapixel network camera. 1.3 megapixels is three times the image resolution of the traditional CCTV cameras watching over your Reception area or shop!

Simply connect it to the nearest network point and record the video on a PC (ACTi provide their NVR Professional video recording software free-of-charge on a CD in the box with each camera - for use with up to 64 cameras!).

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Dome cameras deliver everything you need in one easy-to-install package.

ACTi ACM-7411 vandal-resistant dome camera

Camera, lens and outdoor weatherproof camera housing all in the one assembly.

In the case of this ACTi 7411 IP camera it’s also a vandal-resistant housing - ideal for those applications where you may have some fear of unwanted interference with the camera (indoors or out).

And, it’s a 1.3 megapixel camera, delivering over three times the image resolution of a traditional analogue camera.

And, it’s supplied with a vari-focal lens that allows you to adjust the field of view to suit the scene you want to cover.

And, it’s POE enabled, for an easy installation with video and power via a single Cat5 cable connection to your nearest network point.

And, ACTi supply their NVR Professional video recording software for up to 64 cameras free-of-charge in the box with each camera.

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ACTi ACM-4200 is a great value megapixel IP camera, absolutely ideal for indoor applications for schools, offices and retail shops.

Don’t take our word for it check out the image quality from this budget-priced 1.3 megapixel camera in our video gallery.

A unique feature, compared to similar cameras in this price range, is the ability to change the lens - you can fit a replacement lens to give you exactly the field of view that you need to cover (the more closely you clip your field of view to the area you are actually interested in, the greater the number of pixels concentrated on that area, the better the delivered video resolution when you need to review recordings).

Don’t forget that ACTi offer their NVR Enterprise video recording software free of charge for use with up to 16 of their cameras.

As always, we look forward to your comments and feedback:

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At use-IP we are very keen that you should have the opportunity to be able to appreciate product performance before you have to make your purchase decision.

We realise that we are in the vanguard of IP CCTV and megapixel security cameras, we have a point to prove and we’ll do all we can to demonstrate it to you. Megapixel IP cameras ARE the future of CCTV.

We see some great high-definition video clips from megapixel cameras, but not everybody browsing our website is going to be keen to download the manufacturer’s player software onto their PC and run their own demo with the footage provided.

So, we’re pleased to announce that we have found a high-quality video clip player that does a really good job of delivering that compromise between performance, image quality and patience. Please realise that nothing that we can easily host online and present to you on your own PC via the web will be quite as good as using the manufacturer’s player locally. Most online video services, such as YouTube, Flickr, Google Video, just do not even come close.

use-IP have set up a SmugMug Pro Account to showcase our video clips. SmugMug is probably THE preferred online photo album showcase for professional photographers - they care about quality of image, and quality of service.

We’re really pleased with the initial playback performance results that we are seeing. The video images that you will see played back from our SmugMug Pro account are probably the best comparison playback clips for CCTV performance that you’ll find anywhere on the web!!

As we said above, they are a slight compromise to video delivery performance - they will take a little time to download and play, but you would probably not be willing to wait for the full file sizes which we uploaded.

You’ll be interested to learn that SmugMug use H.264 video compresssion to achieve this web playback performance.

You can adjust some playback settings and choose what size you want to view the clip at.

One great feature that’s built-in for the pro photographers, but we spotted and loved straight away is the ‘Smugloupe’ - if you switch your view of our album to ‘Critique’ - using the dropdown at the top RHS of the page. The clip preview images will be presented one at a time, above the preview you’ll see a tick box for the smugloupe; tick this and you will have a 4.5X magnifying glass that you can move around the image with to checkout a better idea of the available resolution in the image.

We have opened our SmugMug album with video clips from the ACTi ACM-1231, we will of course add further clips from other cameras in due course (but if we’re entirely honest it was the need to show to all of you the fantastic footage achieved from this camera that spurred us on to find this solution!).

Without further ado, you can visit the product page in our web shop to see how we’ll be featuring these video clips:

ACTi ACM-1231

Or, go straight to our use-IP SmugMug Album

As always, we look forward to your comments and feedback:

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Avigilon have upgraded all four models in their HD camera range to full infra-red sensitive colour/mono switching capability.

The range includes:

Avigilon 1 Megapixel HD Camera 1.0MP-HD-DN

Avigilon 2 Megapixel HD Camera 2.0MP-HD-DN

Avigilon 3 Megapixel HD Camera 3.0MP-HD-DN

Avigilon 5 Megapixel HD Camera 5.0MP-HD-DN

These new models are now being shipped in place of the former (colour only) models AND they have maintained the same pricing.

There’s a great screencast video on their site which illustrates really well the picture detail benefits delivered by these megapixel security cameras over traditional analogue CCTV. It also shows just how smart their NVMS (Network Video Management Software) is; watch this three-minute video to see its comprehensive feature set in action. Click the link below:

Avigilon 5 Megapixel camera demo video (allow some time for this to download and play)

You can even download the Avigilon Control Center Player Software and other Avigilon demo clips for free and trial it on your own PC.

You need their player to view the clips in full quality, but they also make sample JPEGs and screencasts that play in your browser available from that same download page.

When you watch the sample videos take note of the Dynamic Contrast Control in playback - as you zoom into dimly-lit areas within the scene the software player automatically adjusts the image contrast and does a really effective job to deliver clear bright images.

Enough said, watch the demos, if you have ever reviewed CCTV footage then you will immediately realise that this is a whole new ball game!!

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Read this story over at Info 4 Security telling how two CCTV systems in the USA that had been recently upgraded to Megapixel IP cameras delivered results that they simply could not deliver previously with traditional analogue CCTV.

One was a restaurant, the other was a jeweller - we’re not exactly talking large systems, but it is interesting to note that in the States system owners and installers already ‘get it’ - they are ahead of the UK in terms of their acceptance of IP camera solutions.

In the UK, the big system owners get it; Heathrow Terminal 5 has IP CCTV, so does St Pancras station.

We would like to think that this website is in the vanguard of helping all UK businesses and CCTV system owners get it!

If you need more convincing, read my Google Knol to learn how the best traditional CCTV cameras only provide 0.4 megapixel resolution (and are not going to get any better).

If you have queries please feel free to enter your questions in our forum.

Comments here or at the end of that Knol are welcome.

If your installer or supplier offers you an IP camera with a 540TVL resolution - they don’t get it, that’s not how that jeweller and restaurant got results, that is same old, same old, with a different plug on it!!

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