HD surveillance cameras

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Hi, CNN today reported that the Brits are scanning 15,000 video tapes!

That suggests the presence of tens of thousands video cameras, unless
they are working backwards in time to discover associations and habits.

Collecting and maintaining the huge number of VCRs and tapes sounds like
a really huge library-type project!

Howard in South Bend, where football practice will start in several
weeks!



On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:25 -0500, Howard A. Blackstead wrote:
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> Looking at the pix from the UK of suspected bombers suggests to me that
> there is a potential multi-billion dollar market for HD surveillance
> cameras. The images released to the public are not especially clear.
>
>
> While face recognition software has apparently not been particularly
> successful, one may expect improvement if the data were of higher
> quality.
>
> I am also quite surprised that the Brits have cameras on buses!
>
> I am also impressed by the number of persons they must have in place to
> review the images from what must be a huge number of cameras!
>
> Anyone know if they are using video cameras or digital stills?
>
> Perhaps Orwell (1984) was off by about 25 years.
>
> The ACLU is likely to go nuts over the loss of privacy issue which is
> clearly in our future. Let me suggest that those who are concerned about
> being recognized as they travel about just adopt the Lone Ranger's
> solution (I don't mean Tonto!).
>
> Howard in South Bend
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Many modern systems are hard disk based. For example, the State of
California changed their law a few years back so that all prisons must
keep all camera footage for two years. The company I worked for pitched
a disk array system that would connect to their camera system and
archive the footage for that time period. Because of the cost of the
hardware, they wind up lowering the captured video's quality down pretty
far. I think it will be some years before the size of HD captured video
is small enough to make it easily storable on affordable media.

Jason Burroughs


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Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:46 AM
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Subject: Re: HD surveillance cameras

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Hi, CNN today reported that the Brits are scanning 15,000 video tapes!

That suggests the presence of tens of thousands video cameras, unless
they are working backwards in time to discover associations and habits.

Collecting and maintaining the huge number of VCRs and tapes sounds like
a really huge library-type project!

Howard in South Bend, where football practice will start in several
weeks!



On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:25 -0500, Howard A. Blackstead wrote:
> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
>
> Looking at the pix from the UK of suspected bombers suggests to me
that
> there is a potential multi-billion dollar market for HD surveillance
> cameras. The images released to the public are not especially clear.
>
>
> While face recognition software has apparently not been particularly
> successful, one may expect improvement if the data were of higher
> quality.
>
> I am also quite surprised that the Brits have cameras on buses!
>
> I am also impressed by the number of persons they must have in place
to
> review the images from what must be a huge number of cameras!
>
> Anyone know if they are using video cameras or digital stills?
>
> Perhaps Orwell (1984) was off by about 25 years.
>
> The ACLU is likely to go nuts over the loss of privacy issue which is
> clearly in our future. Let me suggest that those who are concerned
about
> being recognized as they travel about just adopt the Lone Ranger's
> solution (I don't mean Tonto!).
>
> Howard in South Bend
>
>
> To unsubscribe please click: [email protected]
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same day) send an email to:
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