Re: CCTV -- quality of the images
The poor quality of CCTV systems amazes me. We all carry around mobile phones that can do far better and a few minutes of web research will confirm that the actual sensors are cheap as chips. It must therefore be obvious that the high cost of a CCTV system is the physical deployment and wiring, possibly the optics, and definitely not the sensor.
So how the hell to CCTV salesdroids get away with the fuzzy, SD, monochrome imagery that we see in crime reports?