Megapixel IP versus Analogue CCTV?

[Phil]

If you were installing a brand new system, or even buying a new camera for an existing system (and assuming it was your intention to capture and record evidential video), why would you purchase and install an analogue CCTV camera?

 

[purevision]

Even as you'll find that there's wonderful benefits to digital CCTV, there are many drawbacks to analog maybe the most damning being that it can only tape from one 'path' at once meaning it can only record from one camera and could thus miss the 'action'.

However there are several grounds for this, and though they are lower tech, analog still has lots of rewards that certain businesses and individuals can benefit from. The first of these is that the technology really is easy to appreciate. For small scale private stores run by technophobes, installing lots of digital camera could seem daunting and if anything went wrong they would not know what to will likely not so with analog.

At the same time the analog CCTV will improbable go wrong in the first place, as there has been nothing to crash and no way for the data to get by chance erased (short of a magnet on the VHS tape). Again this makes it much easier to handle for those who aren't that intimate with technology and also means somehow analog CCTV can be more dependable