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.
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: