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It is easy to confirm if a CCTV camera is 960H resolution by looking at the technical specification of the camera. How do I know if a CCTV camera is 960H resolution? It just means that more pixels were used and the picture is wider. The wider format image does not mean that a wider angle of view is captured. Notice that although the 960H image is wider than the D1 image, the angle of view is the same. In the above images, a 3.6mm lens was used. This includes 960H and D1 format cameras. Almost all CCTV cameras use a 1/3 inch image sensor. The angle of view / view-able area covered by a security camera is determined by the size of the lens and the size of the image sensor (the electronic chip that actually captures the image).
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Please click on the image for a full sized view.ĭo 960H cameras provide more video coverage than D1 cameras? The below images compare 960H vs D1 video resolution. CIF resolution is typically used when bandwidth or recording hard drive space is limited. It is basically half the size of D1 and also uses the 4:3 aspect ratio. CIF resolution (also shown in the top image on this page) is 360 x 240 (sometime 352 x 240). D1 resolution uses a 4:3 aspect ratio which was much more popular 10 years ago, before the advent of widescreen monitors and high def television. Notice that the width of the picture is wider when comparing 960H to D1, but the height is the same. D1 resolution is 720 x 480 pixels, sometimes D1 is 704 x 480 pixels. What resolution was used in CCTV before 960H?īefore 960H cameras and DVRs were available, the most popular video standard for CCTV systems was D1 resolution. Almost all of modern monitors are 16:9 aspect ratio. Unlike the generation of CCTV cameras and DVRs before 960H became a standard, 960H uses the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio which makes it more suitable for use with modern widescreen format monitors and HDTVs. The “H” in 960H stands for “horizontal” and 960 is the number of horizontal pixels in the video resolution. What is 960H?ĩ60H is the latest video resolution used by analog CCTV camera surveillance systems. This article explains what 960H video is and answers frequently asked questions about how 960H resolution is used in modern CCTV cameras and security DVRs.