[PLUG] Security camera's for linux

[Kyle Accardi]

Paul Johnson wrote:

> It's not like with analog picture where you can go digitize the video
> when you need to, at whatever resolution you need to, and then go nuts
> tweaking it until you can make out what you need to.  And if you need
> more resolution, just go re-encode from the original.

? Of course analog has a wider bandwidth than digital, but you will always 
be limited to the bandwidth of your recording device (&camera, &cabling, 
&switcher, etc) which is far from infinite even on fresh tape.

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:31:15AM -0800, Daggett, Steve wrote:
>>Digital cameras have gotten a lot better and come down in price.
>>Storage is cheep.  There's no reason that a digital surveillance
>>system shouldn't be at least as good as an old analog system.

> And yet, you're still limited by the resolution of the camera.  

You still are with an analog camera.

Don't get me wrong, I'm an analog kind-of-guy, but these are not good 
reasons why digital is worse.

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Kyle Accardi