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Depends on the scene. If I'm in a low ceiling parking deck I want a 16:9 Image If I'm looking down a long narrow hallway I want a 16:9 flipped 90 degrees looking down the hallway in portrait mode. All others 4:3 works great.

Yea ok..... Why would a superior product need to bribe over China Junk? They aren't in the NVR Business. They sell Cameras, Encoders, I/O boxes, and Access Control. Milestone, Genetec, and dozens of others don't sell cameras.

Axis is not a USA company. http://www.axis.com/corporate/index.htm Axis is a Swedish-based company, which acts globally via its own offices, representatives and well-developed collaboration with partners. http://www.axis.com/corporate/contact.htm

Doesn't matter what color the letters are or what the lighting is, Do you want to re-invent the wheel or capture plates? http://youtu.be/dOgDb94CQtM

What kind of camera? Axis P3346 is a 3Mp camera 3mp resolution is 1600 x 1200 4:3 2MP Resolution is 1920 x 1080 16:9 As you can see the 3mp image is narrower but taller than the 2mp image

I never had a problem plugging in a non-PoE device into a PoE port on a switch. I have a lose Ethernet cable on my desk, connected to a PoE switch that I use to plug in cameras, NVRs, PC's for testing purposes and never had an issue. Thanks. Last question before I forget about cctv and go elsewhere. Are the expensive $2000 Axis 3MP or Bosch 3Mp significantly better than the $85 dahua 3Mp.. or they are *almost* indistinguishable? If better.. how exactly better.. like there is 50% or twice greater dynamic range in the more expensive unit? Any comparison images directly between them? (In your web site, the images of each are at different time so shadows are inherently different to start with). Anyway. Does it translate to revolving more shadows and details at night? By how much? When you have 1100 cameras at one site do you want an Axis camera that up to 5 years later you can make a phone call to a real English speaking person in the US and have an advance replacement at your door the next morning? Or do you want to take your chances with 1100 85.00 Chinese knockoff cameras? Also, Almost every Enterprise level VMS (possibly all) support Axis.

Sorry, I must have missed this. Several of our sites have issues with Axis cameras crashing their Http server. The camera will ping but no video of web page. the easy fix is an ftp reboot cd\ ftp 10.x.x.x User name password then type "quote site reboot" (without the quote marks) this prevents you from having to bump the camera at the switch. I have noticed on Axis cameras if you force the connection to TCP they run a lot more stable. If the camera looses connection with the archiver it will crash trying to "phone home" When ever a fiber link drops out for what ever reason we find a ton of of cameras that are locked up when the connection is restored. In a campus environment outages are going to happen. it's the nature of the beast.

Research the max resolution over a composite video connection. They can say what ever they want about scan lines on the camera box. But: Composite signals carry color video as a single signal. The resolution is limited to 480 lines or 576 lines because they are the two standard definition line counts. The signals are below 6MHz and are analog.

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Maybe it's the camera? I get perfect images at 5fps. What's your key frame interval?

We also use them in Elevators because there is usually a coax in the traveler cable.

It's a home run on Parking decks. Most of the time cat5 is out of spec on distance because they only have one aggregation point.

We use these. http://www.veracityglobal.com/products/ethernet-over-coax-devices.aspx

What's wrong with that? Are you making a motion picture or is it Video Surveillance? You WILL NOT miss anything a 15fps. Even PTZ's on tour don't look bad at 15fps.

Maybe they need to hire an English Major to edit their press releases. That looked like a third grader wrote it.

Are you viewing the camera on the server or a client workstation?

A 12mp camera phone shot is like putting lipstick on a pig. You still have a pig.

Once you buy the camera (10k) and the Lens (5-10K) then you have to have a server to handle it

The industry leader. The Avigilon 29 MP JPEG2000 HD Pro camera provides the coverage area of over 95 traditional VGA cameras and delivers detailed images even in extreme lighting conditions. Installation is easy with remote focus and iris control, and EF lenses provide the best optical quality to deliver the best evidence.

Couple of questions. Your diagram doesn't show where the server connects and where or how the client connects. Also log in to all of those switches and look at your links. That will tell you something.

I did notice here recently that the Gateway Login and the Site User login are 2 separate things now.

I'm not trying to insult your intelligence here so don't take this the wrong way because I don't know your level of network skill. When you tried the mobile devices on the local network did you configure the connection with the local IP? Or did you leave the Internet IP in the settings?

Have you tried connecting on the same network to rule out firewall issues?

A+++. Step-by-step pictures and textual content along with a video: tutorials don't get much better than this imo. I give that link to all my techs that are just getting started into data cabling. Lots of other good ones there too on Fiber and shielded cable.

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