Application of the ITU/ISO video compression standards to CCTV

Closed circuit television offers some interesting applications for the ITU/ISO video compression recommendations. Among those uses are public network transmission and digital storage. The main components to the paper are compression, transmission, storage, and their application to CCTV. A brief description and comparison of H.261, MPEG, and JPEG is presented. Also discussed are ISDN, plain old telephone service and LANs. A description of CCTV and loss prevention technology is provided. Some design considerations are presented with respect to the background information and, finally, a look into what the future might hold is given.