Buying an HD CCTV camera is often confusing for most people. This is because security camera products on the market have a wide range of brands, types, price, technology, and quality. Furthermore, a lack of standardization in the industry also makes prospective buyers difficult to compare products from one manufacturer to another.  The most important attributes in a Security Camera are a type of output, location of placement, minimum illumination, control mechanism, and video resolution. Buyers should consider the attributes to distinguish a CCTV and select the one that meets their requirement.

Things to keep in mind about these cameras:

• Day and night recording

Whether you are considering an investment in CCTV cameras for your home or business, you may want to look at cameras that offer night vision and 24-hour day and night recording. Break-ins, thefts, and vandalizing property happen often in the nighttime, and poor visibility is the number one reason criminals go free.

• Online viewing

Many security companies offer a CCTV surveillance system with the client-centric features that go beyond installation and maintenance. One such feature includes registering a domain name with your security company and having them set up a personalized website to view your property anytime anywhere through a PC, tablet, or your web-enabled cell phone.

• CCTV camera resolution

Most tech savvy users wield phone cameras and video camcorders and discuss megapixels and camera resolutions like a pro. However, when researching CCTV camera packages, you may come across the term TVL or TV lines. What are these? Well, most CCTV cameras operate on the analog camera or analog television system

• Internet viewing resolution

Internet viewing resolution uses CIF (Common Intermediate Format) as a measurement unit. It defines a video sequence with a resolution such as 352 X 288 that may be converted for viewing in PAL or NTSC formats. Confused? Let us try that again. Your camera captures an image at a certain rate called frames per second.

• Video compression

An important aspect of CCTV installation includes compressing large video data into a format that can be easily stored or transmitted. Compressed data needs to undergo the reverse process for viewing. Standardizing this process allows various different devices to interoperate with each other efficiently. In the security cameras industry, the gold standard is H.264 compression used by various different HD and Blu-Ray disc players, streaming video formats, and other Internet applications. The HD CCTV camera using H.264 video compression ensures the absolute best quality of video footage transmission.