| thousand video cameras to be installed in Kyiv streets | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 12:49:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | It is planned to equip Kyiv gateways, avenues and parks with street monitoring cameras in the margins of the program Safety city, worked out by the department on emergency control. The system is called to trace thieves and murderers, fixing their crimes, and send police, rescuers and ambulance to a scene. The system will be connected with the data base of the city citizens. Officials assure that files will be kept on criminals only, but there is no guarantee that ordinary citizens will not get in it. According to experts estimation, Kyiv needs to install 35-40 thousand of such video cameras. Installation and connection of one camera will cost one thousand dollars minimum. Police department asks the Kyiv city state administration to allocate 17 mln hryvnias for installation of 168 video cameras in the most crowded places.... | |
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| | | N.H. city adding cameras to school buses | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:48:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | MANCHESTER, N.H. School kids who act out on some Manchester (New Hampshire) buses soon will be caught on camera. The Manchester Transit Authority plans to buy 20 video cameras for buses this year. Spokesman Dave Smith says that will cover about one-quarter of the bus fleet. Smith said the cameras will help deter bullying and keep a record of problems for disciplinary action. ___ Information from: New Hampshire Union Leader, http://www.unionleader.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .... | |
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| | | Caught on camera: Trying to capture the "restaurant robber" on video | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:51:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Surveillance cameras installed in businesses can play a critical role in cracking down on crime: so why do so few of the restaurants targeted in this recent rash of hold-ups actually have this security? Video surveillance systems are coming down in cost and increasing in quality: so why don't more businesses use them? "Many small businesses are under a lot of pressure to keep costs down and maximize the bottom line," said Dan McDaniel, owner of Advanced Detection Security of Mobile. "I believe it's absolutely critical today." McDaniel says video surveillance systems can run from hundreds to thousands of dollars, but can save money in the long run, especially on insurance rates. With more than a dozen restaurants recently struck, video at hardee's is the only surveillance taken so far of the 'restaurant robber.' "No one's life is worth whatever cash is in that drawer," McDaniel.... | |
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| | | 10th Annual DIGITAL VIDEO EXPO to Feature 'HD HOUSE,' Focusing on High-Definition Production | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:49:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Digital Video Expo ( http://www.dvexpo.com/ ) today announced that Videography and DV Magazine will present HD HOUSE at Digital Video Expo 2006. Free to all attendees, HD House will focus exclusively on high-definition video production and post, from acquisition through delivery. The three-day event will be held from November 15 - 17, and is part of Digital Video Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center, running from November 12 - 17, sponsored by Sony, Panasonic, JVC and Canon. HD House is one of the hottest attractions at the Sundance Film Festival and South-by-Southwest, and is structured as a mini-conference within Digital Video Expo to offer filmmakers, videographers, producers and editors expert advice, information and perspective on every aspect of HD production. HD House sessions will include: -- Digital Cameras Exposed, presented by Emmy Award-winning Engineer and Videography Technical Editor Mark Schubin.... | |
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| | | No attack, no people seen so far in Nev. video | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 10:51:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | A partial review Thursday of surveillance video from a parking garage where a woman said Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons assaulted her did not reveal the presence of either person or an attack. A judge had ordered police to release 16 hours of surveillance video to lawyers for Gibbons and Chrissy Mazzeo, a cocktail waitress who accused him of pushing her up against a wall inside the garage on Oct. 13 and propositioning her after the two had drinks at a nearby restaurant. Gibbons, 61, a married, five-term congressman from Reno, has denied any impropriety and says he helped Mazzeo, 32, when she tripped while walking toward the garage. Mazzeo's accusation, now under investigation by police, has launched a media frenzy and consumed Gibbons' gubernatorial bid in the final stretch of the tight race against state Sen.... | |
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| | | AWA and Firetide Provide Wireless Video Surveillance for Peniscola, Spain | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:48:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Firetide Inc., a leading developer of wireless multi-service mesh networks, and AWA, the largest Spanish operator of Wireless LANs, today announced a successful wireless video surveillance deployment in the city of Peniscola, Spain. The Mediterranean city is using Firetide's HotPort mesh network to enable network surveillance cameras to operate wirelessly for remote monitoring of suspicious activity during busy tourist seasons. With the new system, police officials can monitor more locations to minimize vandalism, pilfering and congestion without adding more police officers or overburdening the municipal budget. "As with many tourist destinations, security is imperative to assure that people have a good visit and will return to our city," said Police Inspector Jose Antonio Soriano. "Our goal was to incorporate a non-intrusive technology that allowed us to effectively increase our police presence without the need to hire seasonal and inexperienced staff for more patrols.... | |
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| | | Beijing restaurants to install video cameras | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:49:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Larger restaurants in the Chinese capital are being required to install video monitoring cameras by municipal authorities to improve public security. Restaurants larger than 2,000 square meters will be fined if they don't set up the video monitoring cameras and keep the footage for at least a year, according to a regulation issued Tuesday by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and the Bureau of Commerce. The cameras are to be set up at key locations including gates, public halls, parking lots, cashier desks and elevators, and be set to record during business time, said the regulation. "Violators will face a maximum fine of 100,000 yuan (US$12,625)," said the regulations. The catering industry has maintained a double-digit growth in China for the last 15 years. In Beijing, diners pack most restaurants at lunch and dinner.... | |
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| | | Shortwave IR Cameras target industrial and military uses. | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:50:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Weighing less than 90 g, InGaAs SU320KTX-1.7RT Cameras are designed for low-light conditions and day/night operation as well as imaging in partial starlight to direct sun illumination. Available as OEM imaging module or enclosed in housing, camera packages include C-mount lens adapter and lens. Units deliver real-time 12-bit video images in 900-1,700 nm wavelength with 320 x 240 pixel format on 40 micron pitch focal plane array. .... | |
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| | | NFL has plenty of its own smudges | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:48:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fox's vigilant cameras exposed the big dirt in baseball Sunday night in Detroit, flashing close-up after close-up of Kenny Rogers' smudged left hand. ESPN dug into its video archives and discovered that Rogers had employed equally poor hygiene in his other postseason starts this year. It was great theater, and not bad journalism. Imagine if that same zeal had been applied to learning the truth about doping in baseball in the '90s. Imagine if even half of that passion was directed at drug problems in football, which has escaped the scrutiny directed at its summer cousin. Pine tar sticks, even the hint of it. But rife hormone tampering in the NFL? Nobody can get a grip on that. The evidence isn't as compelling as the case against Rodgers, whose pitches break-dance toward the plate as never before, and who was, for wont of a better term, caught brown-handed.... | |
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| | | Cell-phone cameras are helping amateurs break into the movie-making biz | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:48:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cheap, easy and accessible, mobiles-as-movie cameras are breaking the motion picture mold, putting a touch of Hollywood into amateur filmmakers' hands. How-to workshops have sprung up from Boston to Abu Dhabi to Rio de Janeiro, and Paris just held its second film festival devoted exclusively to movies shot with cells.Some 8,500 visitors attended screenings at the recent three-day Pocket Films Festival at Paris' Pompidou modern-art museum. In addition to nearly 100 shorts, the fare included three feature-length films - all shot on cells."What we're seeing is the democratization of filmmaking," said festival director Laurence Herszberg. "Now, you don't need expensive equipment and years of training to make a movie. All you need is your phone, that little object you carry around in your pocket all day."Purists complain that poor image quality makes such films virtually unwatchable, but cell filmmakers insist the advantages of shooting on mobiles far outweigh the drawbacks."First and foremost, it's a matter of cost," said Leonard Bourgois-Beaulieu, whose short, "Busy," won Pocket Films' audience-choice award for best film."You save on the camera, which can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of euros and you also save on all the trappings that go with an expensive camera, from operators to lighting designers to makeup artists," said the 23-year-old director, who wrote, shot and acted in his lighthearted comedy about harried twentysomethings."Busy" took less than a week to shoot, Bourgois-Beaulieu said, for the cost of a Metro ticket and two coffees (one scene takes place in a cafe).He acknowledged that cell cameras can't match their conventional digital counterparts for image quality - particularly when blown up to fill a full-size movie screen.... | |
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