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>This industry is loaded with cash, they're transitioning from traditional analog video to IP-centric solutions and have no expertise.

I can confirm on this one. It's amazing how much money I've seen shelled out for utter crap surveillance / software combined systems, where the individual components are relatively inexpensive commodity stuff; the majority of the price is for simply having a passable bit of software that ties it together in a way that is useful from a surveillance standpoint.

Thanks, I'm still in the very early just-playing-around phase right now. It will, at best, be 6 months till I get something worth showing off - and probably closer to a year.

But don't be surprised if you get a strange email in a few months from 'that guy' you won't remember from YC ;-)

> they're transitioning from traditional analog video to IP-centric solutions and have no expertise.

Its astounding how little expertise they have in Internet Protocol, encryption, non-repudiation, codecs and RAID.