The Case for High Definition CCTV
The Case for High Definition (HD) CCTV
With around five million CCTV cameras, we in the UK have one of the highest levels of monitoring per head of any country, and as a nation, we have accepted surveillance as a part of our everyday lives.
Most people now walk around with at least a 3-million pixel camera in their mobile phones, possibly even five or eight million pixels. Now consider that almost all CCTV cameras are analogue – a 60-year old technology originally created for producing images on television – and that those analogue-based cameras have a maximum resolution of only 0.4 million pixels. Subsequently, the quality of most CCTV cameras is outclassed by what most teenagers are walking around with in their pockets by a factor of eight times.
This of course begs the question: why continue to install CCTV cameras that are so outdated and lacking in basic quality? Particularly when there is an alternative in the form of High-Definition (HD) CCTV systems, which can, in fact, work out cheaper as well as producing massively improved image quality and ease of use.
Make the switch to HD CCTV.