I was asking a pro installer today about fitting a new Hikvision POE CCTV system to coincide with my new 1000Mbps fibre broadband/LAN and when I told him that I would like to see 2560 x 1920 4MP video footage on my 5k Mac monitor, he told me not to bother and choose instead 2MP cameras because my system would never be able to display video at higher than 1920 x 1080 without upscaling/interpolating it.
If this is true, why are people buying 4/5/8MP cameras? Is the NVR the bottleneck? Are there no NVRs capable of receiving/processing native 4MP+ video and sending it to the LAN without dropping data? For sure, I have seen 2560 x 1920 CCTV video on my monitor from a 5MP camera but when I looked more closely, it was less sharp than when viewed at 1920 x 1080 which suggested that it was simply being upscaled. Or is proprietary client software a bottleneck?
I can't believe that my system is the problem since it can play 4k Youtube H264 or H265 video very smoothly and it looks great.
Grateful for your thoughts. And maybe your recommendation for a Hikvision NVR which can deliver 4MP video to my monitor…
If this is true, why are people buying 4/5/8MP cameras? Is the NVR the bottleneck? Are there no NVRs capable of receiving/processing native 4MP+ video and sending it to the LAN without dropping data? For sure, I have seen 2560 x 1920 CCTV video on my monitor from a 5MP camera but when I looked more closely, it was less sharp than when viewed at 1920 x 1080 which suggested that it was simply being upscaled. Or is proprietary client software a bottleneck?
I can't believe that my system is the problem since it can play 4k Youtube H264 or H265 video very smoothly and it looks great.
Grateful for your thoughts. And maybe your recommendation for a Hikvision NVR which can deliver 4MP video to my monitor…