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What is a 500W HD camera and how can it be 500 million pixels?

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magic:

--- Quote from: Hartmut on March 24, 2024, 09:43:28 pm ---Is the camera made in China? Then perhaps 500W = 500WAN, which means 5 megapixels in Chinese.

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This could be it, but a quick search shows that cameras advertised as "500W" vary in supposed resolution at least from 1080p to 4K (i.e. 2Mpx to 8Mpx) :-//
And some of them are things like USB endoscopes, which rarely even reach 1080p due to extreme size constraints.

It's best to always demand very concrete specs, like "maximum video resolution is X×Y at Z fps". All else is marketing wank.

Sometimes useful information is only found in buyer feedback...

TimFox:

--- Quote from: soldar on March 25, 2024, 10:06:46 am ---
--- Quote from: BrokenYugo on November 08, 2021, 05:27:13 pm --- Sounds like Chinese bullshittery to me, a quick Google of "500W HD camera" confirms it.

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Using 10000 "Wan" unit is a common unit in China for everything, money, etc. so it is "Chinese bullshittery" in the same sense that using inches is "American bullshittery"

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I assume that is related to the Japanese word "man", which also means 10,000.

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