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Panasonic Release New ‘BB’ Range of Products 2007-08-01 11:08:35 We’re quite excited. Panasonic
have just released a new range of cameras which supercede the BB-HCM311 and BB-HCM331 models, and have also, in a first for the range, launched a 1.3 Megapixel model. Yes, we’re excited. We’re excited because we have just taken delivery of the new BB-HCM531 and we also have [...] Read more:Release
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On Test: Axis 211M 2007-07-13 09:14:24 The Axis 211 is one of our popular cameras, especially for those who were looking for a simple, cost-effective solution for outdoor monitoring.
It makes us glad then that Axis have developed a megapixel version, the Axis 211M. We’ve had one in for testing so lets take a look at it…
1. Accessories
> Included in the [...]
IP Network Cameras and Lighting - A Basic Guide 2007-07-04 09:48:57 We receive questions about IP cameras and lighting on a daily basis. We thought that this post may help many of you who are specifying lighting for use with IP cameras and are looking for guidance. This is a concise guide dealing with the basics only.
No light, no picture
The first thing to remember is that [...] Read more:Cameras
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European expansion 2007-06-25 17:04:57 Today is a milestone in the development of our company Network Webcams Limited. After months of blood, sweat and headaches our updated e-commerce store www.networkwebcams.com has now gone live. Whereas in the past only UK customers could order on-line, now customers in sixteen European
countries can do so too. The expansion into Europe follows our [...]
Panasonic Discontinue Cameras 2007-06-25 12:01:41 As of today we are discontinuing the sale of the following Panasonic
cameras:
BL-C10
BL-C30
BB-HCE481
These models have been superceded with new up to date models. To find out more, keep reading…
BL-C10 > BL-C111
The BL-C10 has been replaced with the new BL-C111. This camera supports all the key features of the BL-C10 such as pan-tilt functions [...] Read more:Cameras
21st Century Surfers Get Technical With IP Cameras and More 2007-06-08 10:07:25 The stereotypical surfer dude has given way to determined and technologically aware individuals, male and female, who stops at nothing to catch the best waves.
Gone are the days when these guys wander down to the beach to “hopefully” catch a wave. They now use sophisticated equipment including IP technology, broadband services and weather data [...] Read more:Cameras
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Panasonic BL-C131 Vs BL-C30 2007-06-05 13:33:41 We’ve just taken delivery of a Panasonic
BL-C131, the new successor to the amazingly popular BL-C30. We’ve had a play, and here’s a list of the key improvements that the new model offers over its original:
Simultaneous MJPEG and MPEG-4: The new MPEG-4 mode (the Panasonic BL-C30 only offered MJPEG video) allows video streaming at [...]
Axis 215 PTZ Network Camera 2007-05-29 09:23:26 Axis has recently announced the launch of their new PTZ dome camera, the Axis 215.
This pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) camera features a compact, tamper-proof design and automatic day/night switching making this camera ideal for indoor security applications such as banks, shops, reception areas etc.
Using a clever feature known as ‘E-Flip’, an Axis 215 offers [...] Read more:Camera
Swallows, Amazons and the Old Man of Coniston 2007-05-29 04:19:34 In a bumper week or Streamdays Webcam Hosting we make another customer live at streamdays.com. Bank Ground, a B&B and self catering farmhouse sits right on Coniston Water in the Lake District in some truly stunning and awe-inspiring scenery.
Bank Ground and Coniston were also the setting for much of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, both [...]
Streamdays Red Carpet-Watch in London’s Leicester Square 2007-05-29 03:00:24 Streamdays Webcam Hosting customer Radisson Edwardian Hotel London have gone live with their Leicester Square
webcam overlooking London’s premier premiere hotspot, the Leicester Square Odeon Cinema.
Celebrity watching is now a doddle as webcam viewers can control the camera by pre-set views and choose from multiple zoomed-in positions on the red carpet trail.
Of course, the rest [...] Read more:Carpet
Network Webcams Staff Hold off Battling Axis Team 2007-05-16 12:50:13 Let no-one ever say Karting is for kids! After two hours of high-adrenaline endurance karting at Daytona Motorsport in Manchester, a team from Network Webcams
Limited held off a plucky Axis Communications team to take the checkered flag in record time!
Ok, so it wasn’t record time and Axis did beat our second team, but we [...] Read more:Staff
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On Test - ACTi CAM5230HP 2007-05-11 12:33:24 We took delivery of an ACTi CAM5230HP network camera for testing. The ACTi CAM5230HP is a static MPEG-4 real-time streaming day/night camera supporting a host of features, so let’s take a closer look at them:
Installation
The camera is supplied with a 12VDC power supply and a range of appropriate terminal blocks. A simple case [...]
Derby Peregrine Falcon Arrivals 2007-05-11 12:28:57 The viewers of our Streamdays hosted webcams at Derby Cathedral were greeted by two new arrivals on Wednesday evening.
Some of the viewers of the webcams reported signs of something fluffy and white late on Wednesday night but it wasn’t until the sun came out and the parents swapped incubation shifts that we could confirm that [...] Read more:Falcon
On Test - AXIS 295 Surveillance Joystick 2007-05-10 04:27:12 Of course every AXIS camera can be controlled through a browser using standard mouse and keyboard control but AXIS do offer an alternative…
The AXIS 295 Suveillance Joystick
The AXIS 295 Surveillance Joystick is a unique way of controlling your AXIS PTZ or Dome network cameras, replacing traditional mouse and keyboard input.
Built from rugged plastic the joystick [...]
Network Webcams Ltd Launches Network Camera Forum 2007-05-05 10:11:46 We are on a mission to be the #1 source for network cameras on the web. Part of that mission is to provide a discussion forum where our customers can get help and information from us, and from other network camera customers and users.
We are pleased to announce that it went live today, Saturday 5th [...] Read more:Camera
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The rise of the Webcam Directory 2007-05-04 14:39:47 There are thousands of tourist attractions throughout the world, but the vast majority of people will never physically see most of them. The cost of travelling to different countries in search of these historic gems is simply too expensive for most people and with increasing concerns about global warming and remaining carbon neutral, many people [...] Read more:Directory
Derby Peregrine Falcon Webcams Almost Too Popular! 2007-04-27 05:40:38 Streamdays Webcam Hosting web servers are being given a real load test by the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project webcam. They’re almost too popular, but not so much that the tech heads at Network Webcams
can’t keep the service running.
While many thousands of visitors to the project’s live webcam page have been watching the falcon family [...] Read more:Falcon
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Streamdays Webcam Hosting Heads North to Shetland 2007-04-27 05:36:14 The most northerly isles in Britain, Scotland’s Shetland Islands, now have three new webcams made possible through our Streamdays Webcam Hosting
service.
The cameras show local landmarks and rugged costlines and can be viewed at www.visitshetland.com.
Alternatively, the Sumburgh Lighthouse webcam, the new Lerwick Harbour webcam and the indoor Sheltand Museum and Archives webcams can all be [...] Read more:Heads
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Ghyll Head Plays Host to Tufty 2007-04-26 12:49:20 It’s not only the birds that enjoy the feast laid out at one of our hosted webcams based at Ghyll Head Outdoor Education Centre, it sometimes attracts naughty visitors too…
We caught this cheeky little fellow ‘red handed’ as he enjoyed the spoils of the day, but he didn’t hang around for long. Only long enough [...] Read more:Plays
Streamdays’ Peregrine Falcon Family Lay 4 Eggs Live On Webcam 2007-04-16 10:22:34 Streamdays Webcam Hosting customer Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project has seen its Falcon
family lay 4 eggs in the period between 4th April to 11th April. Each new arrival was caught live on the Peregrine Falcon webcams installed on Derby Cathedral and hosted in Streamdays.com.
A pair of cameras monitor and record the incubating Falcon pair 24/7 [...] Read more:Family
Rugby Stand Demolition and Rebuild Goes Live 2007-04-16 06:56:34 Our Streamdays Webcam Hosting service continues to go from strength to strength. One of its latest additions is the Gloucester Rugby
webcam which shows their 75-year old stand at Kingsholm being demolished for replacement by a brand spanking new 17,000 seater stand just in time for the new season.
We wish them all the best with [...] Read more:Stand
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Spring Lambs and The English Countryside on this Cornish Webcam 2007-04-05 10:24:22 It’s Spring
time: the time of the year when the weather picks up (or just continues going crazy, thanks to climate change), the lambs are jumping and the thick layers start to come off. It’s a time when the English
countryside comes into its own.
There’s now’t better than being outdoors in the country on a crisp, [...]
Top 10 Webcams on Streamdays.com for March 2007 2007-03-30 13:02:23 The top 10 live web cameras on Streamdays.com as voted by you, the viewer in March
2007.
Number 1 - Lyme Regis Harbour
Number 2 - Inverness Castle, Scotland
Number 3 - Oxford Street Webcam, London
Number 4 - Sitges Webcam, Barcelona
Number 5 - Eilean Donan Castle Webcam, Scotland
Number 6 - Oban Bay Webcam, Scotland
Number 7 - Royal Albert [...] Read more:Webcams
What is a Video Server? 2007-03-30 09:41:34 Video Servers are useful devices.
What they can do is simple. The can transform your existing analogue CCTV cameras into powerful network IP cameras by digitizing the analogue video stream to send digital images over an IP network such as a LAN or the Internet.
Watch your existing cameras over the internet!
This allows the viewer [...]
Important Warranty Information For All Axis Network Video Customers 2007-03-20 06:59:08 AXIS INCREASES WARRANTY COVER FROM 1 TO 3 YEARS
Axis Communications announced on March 15th that it has increased the warranty period on its network video products from 1 to 3 years. The new, three-year hardware warranty applies to purchases made from January 1, 2007 and onwards. It is applicable to all Axis [...] Read more:Warranty
Aberdeenshire Council Chooses Streamdays Webcam Hosting for Banff Webcam 2007-03-19 11:38:13 Aberdeenshire’s Banff Harbour Webcam has gone live utilising Streamdays Webcam Hosting
. A high-zoom PTZ was used to best capture the harbour and the surrounding areas.
We’re sure the North Sea and the North wind will give it a battering. As a weather cam this one is great and recreational mariners are advised to check the camera [...] Read more:Council
More Strange Uses for IP Cameras 2007-03-14 12:48:50 We’re always on the lookout for interesting uses for IP cameras and webcams and while on holiday in New Zealand last month this one caught my eye.
While you can’t see the camera in the picture (damned camera phones.. arghh!), this side-of-the-road Avocado stall at Athenree/Waihi Beach on the Bay of Plenty was monitored by an [...] Read more:Cameras
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Funerals Finally Make it Online with Webcams 2007-03-12 08:18:49 We wondered how long it would take. It’s now possible, so long as you pop your clogs in County Down, to have your tearful send-off webcast to the online masses - or, we hope, just to your loving friends and family.
As recently bereaved myself, I know that this service is going to be a hit [...] Read more:Webcams
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Catch the Last Days of Winter on the Les Coches Skicam 2007-03-06 06:19:19 Winter will be leaving us soon (did it ever really arrive?) and what better way to see it out than to ski the French Alps, or even better, do it from the warmth and comfort of your own home?
The Ski La Source live webcam shows amazing views of Mont Blanc and the valleys and while [...] Read more:Catch
Black Rhino Conservation Gets a Boost With Rhino Birth Webcam 2007-03-06 04:21:38 As avid rhino-cam watchers we were proud to be watching when Paignton Zoo’s heavily pregnant Black
rhino, Sita, gave birth to a baby girl rhino. The birth is part of an endangered species programme at the Zoo.
A dedicated team of rhino watchers kept a close eye on Sita, and on the webcam, during the [...] Read more:Rhino
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