Or am I just blocked by that many people? 
Has it been slow here lately?
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Mike A.
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It does seem a tad slow...or maybe I'm blocked, too!Or am I just blocked by that many people?
mat200
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Fwiw - this holiday season i saw less activity on cctv / security cameras on other sites also .. wondering what that means.
We have taught them so well nobody has questions
Or they all bought the Ring and Wyze
Or they all bought the Ring and Wyze
Slow lately? Yes, I agree, but I'm sure things will pick up considerably once Ken drops BIv6, whenever that might be.
Mike A.
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Too damn cold to do anything outside with cameras here. Snow does make them look great at night though.
A belated Happy New Year to one and all. My absence from the Forum is due to the dreaded decorating.I promised my other half she would have the freezer where she can get to it instead of it being in the shed. it's only taken 8 years to get around to it!
Madflamethrower
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Don't be so sure.We have taught them so well nobody has questions
Or they all bought the Ring and Wyze
I've been busy reading instead of asking Q's that have been asked countless times
Madflamethrower
Getting the hang of it
Could be that VSS are becoming so common, some of the thieves are finally realizing their chances of not getting caught are next to none.
Yes, it does seem like there is not that much traffic on the site lately.
Once you get your BI system, cameras and everything fine tuned many of us go into passive mode. For me, I won't be buying any new cameras unless they are based on 1/1.8 or better sensors. Dahua is releasing in my mind, a lot of crap gear that I will never touch. JMO.
But, ipcamtalk does have numerous other topics mostly technically oriented not the left or right wing stuff that is very useful. That's why I'm on this board. Thank you all for being here. And no, I don't have anyone blocked as to me, that suppresses freedom of speech.
But, ipcamtalk does have numerous other topics mostly technically oriented not the left or right wing stuff that is very useful. That's why I'm on this board. Thank you all for being here. And no, I don't have anyone blocked as to me, that suppresses freedom of speech.
Lack of innovation and gimmicky product releases from overseas is to blame. Have we reached the peak of camera technology? Not so fast... waiting for the newest Sony IMX sensors to become truly wholesale
I think the NDAA ban hurt them more than they expected and they are trying to pivot to the consumer market with all these active deterrence cameras and what I believe is a brightening of the image at night to try to compete with the consumer grade cameras.
And these less than ideal MP/sensor ratios to keep the costs down.
So far we haven't seen a degradation of motion in low light, but the newer cameras do have less tolerance to higher parameters - maybe just coincidence, but I think it is because of the tweaking to give a brighter image out of the box.
Someone mentioned here that these camera manufacturers are still using older tech chips, so either they don't feel the cost justifies moving to more modern chips or they are still trying to figure out how to implement them.
I think @Mike A. hit it on the head, its COLD out
As to camera tech, I'm still amazed how well the sensor in my new Viofo A229 Pro does in low light and in such a tiny package. Clearly the technology is well ahead of what we're seeing in surveillance cameras
As to camera tech, I'm still amazed how well the sensor in my new Viofo A229 Pro does in low light and in such a tiny package. Clearly the technology is well ahead of what we're seeing in surveillance cameras
I certainly haven't been as active recently on the forum. I don't know if I finally got tired of answering a lot of the same questions (which I'm not looking at negatively - we all were newbies at one time), or if the questions really haven't been coming as frequently (ie the traffic on the site really is down) or a combination of both..... It's probably a combination of both.
Flintstone61
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Maybe AI is being tilted by outside forces with bigger budgets to point the Sheeple to click bait solutions with battery operated Wifi cams
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@steve1225 said it best that it is basically that CCTVs are using older tech and phones and dashcams are using more recent tech, thus the differences:
Premium cctv are using low MPX sensors - with much bigger pixels - which works much better in night conditions.
Also lenses in premium cctv are much better (varifocal - with optical zoom, changeable focus and sometimes even closing iris)..
But yes - there is one area where cctv cams are years behind of mobiles..
That ISP (Image Signal Processors) and heavy use of AI for image/video processing in mobiles..
All image/video progress done in mobiles in last 5 years are due heavy use of AI for processing.
Image sensors and lenses are almost the same as were 5 years ago..
Of course this AI-ISP processing requires a lot of GPU/NPU power which today SOCs in cams don't have.
CTV cams are using SOC (chipset with CPU/GPU/ISP/NPU) which are at level what iPhones/Samsung had 5 years ago at best (when You compare cam top models like Wizmind-X 7442-X) and 10 years ago at worst (when You compare lowest / cheapest cams)...
In case of mobiles high performing SOC with low power usage is main selling point. You have millions of apps which are using that. So Apple/Samsung/Qualcomm/TSMC invest billions USD into latest SOC designs and semiconductor manufacturing processes (like 3nm).
CCTV cams are using much cheaper SOC's produced in older processes (like 14nm). They are running only one app developed by HIK/Dahua. Here is also big problem with Chinese companies, which due USA restrictions don't have access to latest chip manufacturing processes.
