A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations

Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by jandrese on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:52PM (#15518688)

Back in the days when you could replace the batteries on most phones they would be badly obsolete and unsupported in 3 years. Even today it's a bit iffy on spending the $50 to replace a battery in a 3 year old Android phone.

A camera won't become obsolete nearly as fast. Assuming the cops shoot in HD today (it would be really dumb if they didn't) then that will still be HD tomorrow. Maybe not 4k, but honestly I don't think 4k brings a lot to the table at this time in this application.

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Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by MertsA on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:28PM (#15523187)

I disagree, human vision is pretty amazing with a huge field of view and while the amount of detail is only really high at the center of vision to match what an officer can make out you'd pretty much need a lot of detail everywhere. I don't think we'll see affordable 4k body cameras for a while but there's definitely benefits to recording in 4k.

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