10-06-2016, 05:10 AM
In 2001, almost no video surveillance systems recorded at 30 frames per second. Primarily because most systems then we're using time-lapse VHS tape recorders and were incapable of these frame rates. If your system was capable of theses frame rates, you could not afford the storage costs to retain the video more than a day or so. These recorders were most often using recently invented video multiplexers to feed the video from multiple cameras into one VHS machine. Back then, if you had a system capable, you would be changing tapes 4 or 5 times a day to keep up with those frame rates. No one did that except some Federal prisons and gambling casinos where high frame rates really mattered.
The Boston airport could not have recorded all of their cameras on a Loronix system at 30 frames a second unless they paid millions for the video system, a rarity pre 911.
The Boston airport could not have recorded all of their cameras on a Loronix system at 30 frames a second unless they paid millions for the video system, a rarity pre 911.