If you would rather use Cat5E instead of RG59 cable, it’s likely that somewhere along the way you will need a passive video balun. Security Camera King carries a full line of baluns both active and passive. Passive video baluns help prevent the degradation of the radio frequency signal over cable.
We are asked quite often about the security camera CCD (Charged Coupled Device) and the CMOS or Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. In the following article we’ll discuss how a digital video system actually works and what importance a security camera CCD has within this system.
If you have a “wired” digital video system, you’ll want to make sure you have the correct security camera cables for it. In this article we’ll take a look at the most common type of security camera cable and its connectors.
Security camera software is the glue that ties together digital video cameras and Personal Computers (PCs) or Macintosh Computers (Macs) as well as Digital Video Recorder (DVR) units for standalone systems. It’s also the heart of remote DVR monitoring applications (Apps) that allows your smartphone to access your video security system. It essence it provides the programming that allows you to control the camera, monitor the camera, and record the digital video files.