Why Your NVR Can’t Handle Its Rated Camera Count
Posted by Ted Perry on Mar 01, 2026
Why Your NVR Can’t Handle the Camera Count on the Spec Sheet
NVR spec sheets love big numbers.
64 channels. 128 channels. 256 channels.
But those numbers assume ideal lab conditions. In real deployments, performance collapses long before you hit the headline camera count.
Deployment takeaway
Channel count assumes specific bitrate and codec conditions.
Decoding limits ar
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