Samsung Launching 1280H Analog, Claims HD Quality

What BS, makes you wonder how they keep a straight face at Samsung.

Ethan I assuming that if you were to connect one of these 1280H cams directly to a 75 Ohm standard NTSC input that you would expect to see just a regular 4:3 image. If yes then two questions:

1. It sounds like your saying you believe the 1280 'sauce' is all in the DVR. If so why would Samsung even bother using MP sensors, why not just invent some image enhancement marketing term?

2. So what happens when you plug a 4:3 camera into the 1280H port? Does it widen it also? If not how does it know not to?

3. Are there active distribution jacks for each input? Or just passive T's. ?

I know you don't have a 1280H setup yet but its the same as 960H right?

Here is a question! ...Why????

Vary few people are going to buy the proprietary DVR, any other DVR you connect that camera to is going to compress the image down to D1 resolution (if not lower) anyway. Yet some scum will be out there selling these as megapixal quality cameras. Or better than megapixel cause your not "slown down by a network connection". I am not making that up either. I have litteraly had customers tell me that some vendors were trying to sell them "supper res analog cameras," caus they preformed "beter than megapixel camera and are slowed down by networks".

Just becuase you (and you know who you are) don't konw how to configure a network appropriatly for IP video does not mean that the technology is flawed. It does mean, however, that you are in the wrong line of work. You should be out digging ditches or doing some other type of manual labor. You clearly don't have the intelect or acumen to be deailing with electronic systems.

Samsung makes a perfectly good IP camera already there no need to try and improve outdated technology. If you are still installing NEW analog systemstoday you should not be in buisness, because you clearly don't know what you're doing. End of!!!!

I feel much better now. Hope you all have a wonderfull day.

Do we know for sure that they aren't using a super wide CMOS chip? Do we know if they are cropping the CMOS image to render a super wide shot? Are you so sure they are stretching a 4:3 image to 8:3? It certainly wouldn't make much sense to me to stretch the 4:3 image in that manner.

Samsung isn't a shoddy company that would do something like that in order to have some edge specs wise, only to just distort the images. At least I wouldn't think so.

My guess is that they are finding a way to take a cropped 8:3 image from the sensor, squeeze it down to the 4:3 NTSC signal, transmit that via analog signal to the DVR, where it gets corrected back to 8:3.

If I'm wrong, and they are just widening out a 4:3 image to 8:3, it is a complete joke. If I'm correct, they could avoid people buying their kits at Costco/Sams and then adding additional cheap CCTV cams to their DVRs. This would force the public to want to buy the better quality Samsung 1280H cams.

Well it is strange that they use a 4:3 imager and only end up using half of it to get a 8:3 image.

Also, are they going to produce a display to match the 8:3 aspect ratio?

Do they somehow transmit half of the 8:3 image (4:3) in one frame, then the other half the next, then multiplex them at the DVR?

Sounds like secret sauce to me. Let's see if they pull it off.

I think Covi was before my time in CCTV. I came from the IT/PC industry, so they might predate me. My first camera install was for a previous employer. Four B/W Samsung cams that came in a kit with a CRT display with integrated VHS time lapsed recorder. That was probably around 2003? We didn't actually make it a part of our business for many years later. I started making it a core part of my business in the last 4 years.