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

Question

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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Answer 1

Love to have got the skinny from all the security pros here.Another reason may be that, since most people are don’t work in security, people only see these images on films and series. I think grainy B&W images have become the cinematic shorthand for security camera.