Why do most if not all security cameras have such bad quality?

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Phones nowadays have cameras that are so perfect in quality, yet security cameras are mostly always so grainy so why? You can get a phone with a perfect extremely high quality camera for a few hundred these days, sometimes even less

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There is an additional problem that exacerbates this. In many organizations (esp. govt.) IF you install a security camera, it MUST retain at least one year of video.

Well… a year is a long time, so to meet this requirement you can either have tons of storage (which still might not be enough if you have multiple cameras) or you lower the quality until a year fits on the system you got.

Most people do the latter.

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