Bigger isn’t always better and less can beat more. Important keys to the video kingdom now include aspect ratio, actual resolution, frame rate and color rendition. Standards are essential except when they are not. Some images look spectacular on the exhibit floor but seem to wilt under the parking lot lights on Green Street. Especially when a pixel count gets higher, the lens can make trouble. Driven in part by live football games on home HDTVs, expectations of enterprise security leaders may be nearly impossible to meet in their security world or the price tag can significantly fall outside the budget. And when you bring in certain types of cameras, the dominoes – expensive, expected, complex and unanticipated – can start falling.
Enough said about megapixel and high definition (HD) cameras. Or is it?