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

It’d be neat to incorporate smart software. The camera could record in high def all the time, but it’s erased if the software doesn’t find anything useful in the recording. If it works, you’d be left with only HD events records. You’d have the storage for it assuming you don’t have hours of eventful data.