I was in a laundromat the other day, a typical downtown retail space.
> It has 4 fisheye ceiling cameras. 4 cameras... a laundromat!
>
> I guess we've gotten used to it at this point - Big Brother is always
> watching.
>
> But really, they're recorders, not live watchers, except at places like
> WalMart. (ever looked at a WalMart ceiling?) So my question is, for a
> small business, how long do they keep the DVD? How far back do their
> records go?
>
> They have to swap a disc every 4 hours. If they use DVD-R, how many
> discs do they typically store? If DVD-RW, how often do they recycle
> the discs? In either case, do they have hundreds of discs, going back
> months?
>
> Anybody have experience with security systems?
>
> I don;t know which board to address this question -
A lot of this is not so much Big Brother as Big Lawyer. Business owners are putting these things in so they can have video for the "slip-and-fall" lawsuit or the billion other things someone can try and haul you to court for.