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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u/fh3131 and u/Oclure are 100% correct. One other thing to consider is the processing power required for replaying. Watching 1 camera at 4k on regular speed isn’t an issue. Watching 4-6 cameras on 32x speed trying to find a specific incident is an issue. High speed seeking needs to remain smooth, if it gets choppy you can easily miss something. Higher resolution means more processing power required per frame.

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