{"id":1502,"date":"2010-12-16T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2010-12-16T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:43:26","slug":"are-analog-cameras-cheaper-than-ip-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/are-analog-cameras-cheaper-than-ip-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Analog Cameras Cheaper Than IP Cameras?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago I linked to an Axis study that set out to prove that the <a title=\"cost of ip surveillance\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/industry-news\/cost-of-ip-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">cost of IP surveillance <\/a>is now less expensive than its analog counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is a healthy debate over at <a title=\"ip video market info\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/industry-news\/cost-of-ip-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">IP Video Market Info<\/a> about the validity of this study.\u00a0 Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"debating axis's ip vs analog cost comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/ipvideomarket.info\/report\/axis_ip_vs_analog_cost_comparison_debate\" target=\"_blank\">Debating Axis&#8217;s IP vs Analog Cost Comparison<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the major sticking points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Axis&#8217;s study assumes\u00a0that no surveillance equipment is currently being used (i.e., &#8216;greenfield&#8217;).\u00a0 A majority of organizations buying surveillance systems\u00a0already have some cameras and cabling installed and a\u00a0large portion of that infrastructure can and regularly is reused.<\/li>\n<li>For any given feature set, IP cameras always cost significantly more than analog. While a DVR costs more than PC plus VMS software, that increase in cost is less than the savings on the camera side.<\/li>\n<li>Is IP still worth it?\u00a0 Cost isn&#8217;t everything, a price comparison can still favor analog, and <a title=\"megapixel ip cameras\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcamerasupply.com\/megapixel-ip-cameras\" target=\"_blank\">Megapixel IP camera\u00a0<\/a>resolution (a\u00a0big IP advantage) was not mentioned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The flexibility, scalability, and high quality images set <a title=\"ip camera supply\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcamerasupply.com\" target=\"_blank\">IP cameras <\/a>apart from analog.\u00a0 Remote access of live images from anywhere in the world including viewing video surveillance on your phone puts analog in the backseat, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Like any other kind of technology, over time, functionality continues to increase as the price goes down.\u00a0 There may be\u00a0debate now over some marginal price differences but that surely will not last.<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation &#8211; what do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago I linked to an Axis study that set out to prove that the cost of IP surveillance is now less expensive than its analog counterpart. Now there is a healthy debate over at IP Video Market Info about the validity of this study.\u00a0 Check it out: Debating Axis&#8217;s IP vs Analog&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/are-analog-cameras-cheaper-than-ip-cameras\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}