CCTV Articles

Video Surveillance – Why is it important to have a CCTV system?

First thing to decide is what do you want to accomplish with your CCTV system. There are many reasons to consider a camera system, but what is your primary desire? If it...

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Spy and Surveillance

License Plate Color Camera

License plate color cameras are designed to do exactly what the title says: They take digital video pictures of vehicle license plates, with higher quality cameras able to do so when the vehicle is traveling at a high rate of speed (for example, 90 mph). Security Camera King offers one such camera for the job, so for the remainder of this article our focus will be on Product# VSSC-54CDNR-90 a 540 TVL High-Speed License Plate Capture Camera.

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CCTV Articles

What is a CCTV System?

“What is a CCTV System” we’ll attempt to answer that question in the following article. It is a broad description for a security and surveillance system. Nothing can provide the power of security and surveillance better than a Closed Circuit Television or CCTV digital system. Analog digital security provides adequate security and surveillance, but with the advent of the CCTV digital system there are far more beneficial features and options available. In fact there is a CCTV digital system for just about every security or surveillance situation

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Video Surveillance Cameras

Electronic video images may show a varying degree of detail. That is evidenced by the contrast between standard television broadcasts and those called High Definition (HD). Television was originally displayed on a Cathode Ray Tube or CRT (also called the “picture tube”). The CRT reproduced the image on its screen by shooting an electron beam horizontally at the rate of about 60 times per second. To a large degree, the number of horizontal lines determined how detailed the video appeared. The more lines, the smaller the lines, the greater the detail of the picture.

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