When CCTV Security Camera Systems first came onto the market, the cameras were somewhat large, produced heat and had vidicon tubes that when trained on one subject for an extended period of time had the image of that area burned into the tube. Despite their drawbacks many businesses adopted CCTV cameras and their systems as a tool to combat shoplifting. CCTV cameras today are now smaller, produce little or no heat, have chips that gather images and don’t burn in instead of vidicon tubes. The small sizes and high quality images produced by today’s CCTV cameras make an attractive and affordable solution to property protection.

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