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Uh oh, did someone use the 'U' word? Hang on folks, here we go again....

Maybe he should have sat down with his DELL laptop and used his MICROSOFT software to check the NEWS and tonight's TV LISTINGS on his YAHOO account.

The specs for my Samsung 721 say: Electronic Shutter Speed: NTSC : AUTO (1/60 ~ 1/200,000 sec), MANUAL (1/60 ~ 1/200,000sec) Iris Mode: ESC / Video Drive / DC Drive So I'm not sure mention of an electronic shutter is a tipoff. Maybe mention of an 'EI Electronic Iris' is the red flag to look for. So the quest continues: Where can I find a board camera with both an IR cut filter and (support for) an AI lens?

Do you know where to buy just the domes?

I agree. This is (was?) one of the best threads I’ve seen on this forum. Very informative and inspirational. I’ve since been thinking about a variety of built-to-spec cameras from cheaper board cameras. I’m really sorry about being part of the miscommunication…..but Rory started it!

It appears that dipshwich thought my "wisenheimer" comment was directed to him, rather than rory.

Glass is good. Misunderstandings are bad.

"doeheads" What's that? Dipshwich, no reason to take offense. Your housing is an inspiration. (And I mean that seriously!) Rory and I were just discussing the merits of regular glass vs. optically correct glass.

You might want to slap some paint on that housing before your wife sees it.

Ok, wisenheimer. : http://www.wordreference.com/definition/wisenheimer Most people with basic knowledge of photography would never put “regularâ€

Check out the WSDN-400CS board camera: http://www.dvr-cards-geovision.com/board_cameras.htm Anyone know if there's a plug for an auto-iris lens? I don’t see it in the picture and it’s not clear from the description.

Not that it matters much, but I think it is a Sony: http://www.pluscctv.com/board.htm http://www.dvr-cards-geovision.com/board_cameras.htm What isn’t clear is whether is has an auto iris. What does ‘Auto iris control -- auto’ mean?

Exactly. If you’re really serious about catching someone “in the act.â€

Kool. This is what I was looking for years ago and ended up with glass designed to work with a photo enlarger. The only problem is that it blocks IR light. This is a great thread!

Has anyone used the Sony SDN-400: http://www.metrosecurityonline.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=42 It appears to have both an IR cut filter and auto iris.

Forwarded from a friend.... From Tuesday's "Good Morning Silicon Valley" newsletter: Analysts revise rating of Cell chip from "hypeware" to "Hey, would you look at that!" No microprocessor since Transmeta's Crusoe has inspired as much hype and bloviating as the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell. Though it's been in development for some four years now, very little is known about the Cell, aside from the grand pronouncements of its designers: 10X performance for many applications; supercomputer on a chip. These promises have been made for months with no real supporting evidence. Now, it finally appears we have some. At the COOL Chips VIII conference in Yokohama in late April, Toshiba showed a video of a Cell processor simultaneously decoding 48 video streams. "In the film, 48 MPEG-2 streams stored on a HDD were read, decoded and projected onto a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution display divided into 8 x 6 cells, each of which showed a different video in each cell," Nikkei reports. "The company expects the technology to be used to display thumbnails for a video list. Of the eight synergistic processor elements (SPE) used in the Cell, six are used for decoding 48 MPEG-2 streams and one is used for scaling the screen. The remaining SPE can be used for a completely different processing function." I've no idea how large or small the video streams were; a poster at Beyond3D claims they were 720x480 MPEG-2 streams with 6 SPEs. But whatever their size, 48 streams is a lot of video, and the fact that it was all seemingly decoded with power to spare is pretty astonishing.

Ok, I'll ask: What's "float glass"?

Did they snag your garbage too?

Let’s back up and look at the big picture…. The first question to ask is what are you gaining from the use of a general-purpose OS? • Maturity, yes • Lots of functionality, yes • A degree of standardization, yes • Low cost, yes Then what are the tradeoffs? • Large footprint and complexity -- many of the OS features have no use or are not optimized for a relatively simple, video-oriented, real-time environment like a DVR. Sure you can get everything to work just fine, but the question is, would everything work better, faster, and more reliably with an OS designed for a DVR environment? • Security – A general-purpose OS is a target for hackers and leaving it hanging on a network is a potential liability. • Upgrades -- What drives future upgrades? Is it the latest chip that can efficiently decode video, or to play host to the latest spreadsheet or word-processing applications?

No doubt that’s why there isn’t a standard OS for DVRs. Whether it’s worth someone’s effort to create one is beyond me. I can certainly see why it would be of benefit to DVR manufactures and customers. I’m just saying “wouldn’t it be greatâ€

Features, usability, stability, security, and quality. I doubt many people buy a DVR based on its OS. It’s the quality and usability of the hardware and the software on top of the OS that matters to the customer. The guy in China has just as much access to Linux, Windows, or any other OS as GE/Bosch/Pelco, so I don’t see how leveraging a general-purpose OS gives them any advantage. Based on what Rory says about the quality of GE/Kalatel DVRs, it may be that GE is a few steps ahead of the rest of the industry by leveraging an OS that is more suitable for deployment in a DVR.

I’m referring to the dedicated market, not add-on DVR cards. The question how can all of the DVR manufactures leverage new hardware, such as the ‘Cell chip,’ if they each have to individually upgrade their proprietary OSs, or wait for upgrades from MicroSoft or the Linux community? With a standard OS, DVR manufactures could save money and focus their efforts on efficient manufacturing and distribution and adding value elsewhere. It’s really just the same model currently used in the PC market.

I'm sure the problem isn't the wiring in this case. It's the camera. I have the same camera and the same problem. I have tried a number of cameras on the same wire and only experience the problem with this camera.

Does anyone know a price yet?

Good questions. A “standardâ€