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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IP CCTV has been around for a number of years now and it’s interesting to just pause and consider who is committing to it as their chosen surveillance technology.

It’s interesting to note that more and more of the big system users, with the resources to carry out in-depth trials, and the experience of previous technologies are now rolling-out IP CCTV solutions at their sites. IKEA, John Lewis, casinos, shopping centres and ports all feature amongst this set of big customers that have switched to IP CCTV.

In the world of smaller surveillance systems, there are two clear categories of customers that select IP CCTV:

CCTV Upgraders

People who already have traditional analogue CCTV systems and want something better. They’ve had incidents, they’ve reviewed recordings, they would like to be able to ’see more’ next time there’s an incident …

The Tech Savvy

People who ‘get it’ - they have their finger on the pulse of technology, they check lots of websites, they consider and compare different manufacturers, they read the specifications on the datasheets, they understand megapixels, bandwidth, gigabytes and lux levels, they call and discuss their application …

Who doesn’t buy IP CCTV?

Basically, the price conscious consumer. They know (or have been told) that they must have CCTV. They look for the cheapest solution to tick that box, they don’t consider the image quality, they don’t read specifications. They don’t profess to understand analogue or ‘digital’ CCTV. They may have been told (by a friend, or the first installer that they spoke to) that they need a DVR. They are often keen to get the job done, and they just buy cheap.

Of course, these people become the ‘CCTV upgraders’ of the future … because once they have committed to the co-ax cabling and BNC connectors of traditional CCTV they’re not going to be able to do a lot to improve their system by simply changing components, and in due course they are quite likely to upgrade to IP CCTV …

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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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Google has launched a new wiki service known as Knol, I have posted an article there:

Megapixel IP Security Cameras - The Future of CCTV

I tried hard to stick to just one theme, and to explain (pass knowledge - knol) to people that analogue CCTV cameras have reached their performance peak in terms of image resolution, and for this reason (more than any other) Megapixel IP security cameras will become the standard for CCTV applications in the future.

Sure, there are many other factors that we can debate; bandwidth, storage, cost, compression standards, etc. But for article one, let us just consider that the analogue versus IP debate should fizzle-out soon simply because analogue CCTV cameras cannot improve significantly on 540TVL resolution; which in turn means that each camera should only view a scene width of 4.3m or 14ft (to deliver images adequate to recognise a known individual).

End-users have greater expectations now, they can do so much with cheap digital stills cameras and their PCs (not to mention what they see via the internet). They are often disappointed with analogue CCTV performance; currently conscientious surveyors, consultants and installers have to take time to brief their clients properly and spend most of that time explaining the limitations of CCTV, what it won’t do, setting realistic expectations, explaining why a camera can only cover a small scene width effectively ….

To use a consumer market analogy, there is no way that the public was ever going to persist with VHS VCRs once DVD players became affordable, and in time we will all move on to blu-ray and HDTV, it’s just a matter of price performance ratio.

I believe that the time is now right, and that IP CCTV has reached that ‘tipping point’.

To invest in new analogue CCTV now is to limit yourself to a narrow view of the future - maximum 14 feet wide, narrower would be more effective ……

Read my Knol article now and I hope that you will readily understand why there is simply not going to be a better analogue CCTV camera produced any time soon, so why, in 2008, would you commit to co-axial cables and BNC connectors???

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