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your right i have always lived by a quote: " Find a job you love and you never have to work a day in your life" Thats a good quote to actually be able to do. I am lucky i dont have some sucky job that i dread to go to every single morning

loop are you talking about live resolution? if so yo might be right. Playback is another thing

when cheap people call and say they want to know how much it would be for a system they mean cameras. They act suprised when you bring up the recorder. And then do not want to pay for labor also. They see think ,"ok a camera is probably 100 or so". So if i get 8 then thats 800 dollars." Those people i just hang up on.

i can say the name just not where. I understand that most of these are not HIGHEST quality. but would you look at the image and say they are cheap? Just by looking at the image. And you are right that different boards and different components cost more. But to the end user they could care less if your components and board cost more as long as the image is good. Right? If I could push pelco and panasonic on the general public I would. But 99 out of 100 wont buy it. Thats where you go to something more affordable that still puts out a good image. Thats where this comes in.

what about the results? how do you feel about that?

do any of these look cheap? every single one of them mace. The top are the least expensive cameras they sell. Never had a complaint. And the top two were used a job for the homeland security department anti terror job to secure a critical building. Was our first job for the government and actually is how we got our military account and dhs account. That one jobs quality has more almost trippled my income because of that ONE job. its obviously not CHEAP

Mace is not cheap in the sense of just putting together a camera and doesnt care if it works. Mace is extremely good at producing cameras that are not as expensive as extreme. I have not seen much GE products so I cant compare it. But I would not agree that they dont look at as good if not better than SANYO. If I try out a new camera and dont think it is what I thought it would be (which has only happeaned one one). Then I can guarantee that a better one will be on my door step by 8 in the morning. Go to my website and look at my experience page. Contact anyone of them and ask them if mace is cheap (as in low quality). They will think you are crazy person off the street.

If the installer was as knowledgable and professional as they should be then exact same camera with the exact same dvr focused and set exactly the same should get that persons identity without any doubt every time. Thats what may be the problem. Some people may not think of them as professionals and do substanderd work. I will walk away from a job before i will put in a cheap system that is not going to be used to fulfill all their needs. every system we put is going to be custom designed and set up to get a shot everytime. So if the defense attorney did that on one we did he would be sentencing his own client

well of course it takes more than video evidence. No prosicuting attorney is going to go into court and say here is the video I rest my case. Even if the video was the best video you could ever imagine. You have to bring everything to the table. But what I am saying in this whole realm of this topic is that with the alarm industry around here. That the infectiveness of them helps our industry alot. Because most of the time the person is never caught. Because what is an alarm going to tell you besides the fact that you had been broken into? If the suspect is gone. You have no video. Pretty much they were able to tell you that you were broken into. You would have figured that out. When we had to go through the NBFAA certification the guy that heads the Arkansas BFAA said and I quote, "the national average is not measured in minutes its measured in hours. We are allowed to call the police once an hour. And we will call 3 times to ensure they have responded". Thats real assuring. You might say that that is the polices fault for the response time. Well if the alarm industry did not have a 98% false alarm rating they would respond faster. What other industry can you think of that you can fail 98% of the time and still be in business? For businesses I think an video is way more critical than an alarm. Tie them into together and you get a bonus. But most businesses could care less. That type of failure rating multiplied times the inneffectivness of the system compared to the way they tell you it will be makes the alarms look like a selling point for surveillance systems.

ya it was

Where can I get some updated shapes for microsoft visio for Surveiilance drawings?

man I am not sure if there is a job that I would love doing more. I love the technology and everything else about this industry. Sometimes I wonder If I am actually getting paid to play with my toys.

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have you not seen the video? Log into my dvr and look at it. I dont feel like uploading the whole thing. its 99mb's. That might take a while. http://70.238.61.70 user user and do a search for 2-09-06 at 6:58 - 7:15pm

check out this still pic from that demo. I put my hand on the tree and check out the hand print after I take it off [/img]

Ok I need help from our wireless experts. I have a guy who lives about a 1/2 a mile away from his self storage business. He wants to get surveillance on his buildings and wants to be able to watch it from his house. So I think that 2 ptz's mounted on each corner mount is what he is willing to pay for. It will be recorded locally. But he wants to be able to have a monitor at his house and see the live video feed. Also he wants to be able to stop from auto pan and control it if he wants to. So since I am in no way an expert on this wireless stuff. I would love for your recommendations on what I should get to allow this to happean (wireless products). So to recap i need wireless communication so that he can control the ptz's. And also record it locally. And then have the video signal out from the dvr going to his house.

ok now what is a good product to send the video back to the house?

ill tell you what you do if they dont have their ssn tattoed on their forehead. What you do is when you design your system be sure to have some cameras designated for face shots. Kind of like when you want License Plate Recognition you have it only designated for that. And not for anything else. Same concept. Get an excellent face shot. Then send it to the news. We have a great relationship with the biggest news channel around here and we do that all the time. I have yet to send them one that has directly resulted in people calling and will identify them. That gets the warrants and they are usually arrested within atleast 2 weeks. Works every time. Plus is great for publicity. We dont ever have to spend money on advertising because the news likes us and mentions our name every time. Best advertising I could ask for.

shoot. I wish. That would be absolutly awsome to have one of those integrated in my camera system. I dont think I would ever be pulled away.

definitly going. I really cant say exactly what this will be used for. But what I can say is obviously for the military and used to see a large and long distance.

i am talking about for business

if you are talking about power zoom lenses earlier in the topic. Then this is about that. The only thing you have to watch out for power zoom cameras is the auto focus. Rain and glare are two things that will make you sick when you watch it. Otherwise they are extremely nice to have.

I would definitly have to up the service maintenance agreements monthly price for that. That would be a whole hell of a lot of moving.

the active IR's that see thru that though can only see that object at 2 miles and nothing else. Bryan Montogmery from extreme explained the whole thing on that to me.

what are you talking about? Someone to man the cameras 24/7 and actually WATCH them? or alarm based monitoring with video confirmation?