A customer recently contacted CCTV Camera Pros looking for a megapixel IP camera with the following requirements:
I'm wondering if you could advise of a camera product that would satisfy all or most of these features:
- Megapixel (preferably)
- outdoor use
- IP (built-in server)
- PTZ (remote through ip client)
- full time NTSC video out (for supplying an "in-house" channel) - still works even if IP client is accessing
- on-board storage (memory card - for several hours of history / high resolution stills stored forever during alarm events)
- 2-way audio
- day and night (low light) imaging
Here is CCTV Camera Pros reply:
Thank You for contacting CCTV Camera Pros. I am not aware of any megapixel PTZ camera on the market. The idea behind megapixel is to actually phase out PTZ.
Check out this megapixel model (non-ptz):
http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Outdoor-Megapixel-Camera-p/vivotek-ip7361.htm
Please let us know if we can help further.
The customer followed up with:
Thanks for the suggestion - that is a fairly good grouping of the options I was looking for. Would I be able to get a simultaneous "video out"?
CCTV Camera Pros reply:
Although that megapixel camera does not have an analog video output, that camera is compatible with this IP camera to analog decoder which basically can give you an analog/CCTV output with BNC anywhere on the network that the IP camera is on:
http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Video-Decoder-p/vivotek-rx7101.htm
Please let me know if you have any questions about how to use this product.
