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Author: Edwin Earl | CCTV systems are now been used in an increasing amount of domestic properties. Domestic CCTV systems offer the house holder an extra level of security and many CCTV installations are now been installed by the end user. Many home owners are buying professional DIY CCTV kits or CCTV packages and cutting out the CCTV installation companies, this often means you can install much better quality components for half the price of what you would pay for an installed system. Installing your own CCTV system is straight forward and can be done in a number of ways. The easiest method is to use ready made RG59 cables that carry the cameras power and video signal to a CCTV DVR, which in turn is connected to your TV via a BNC to Scart connector. A CCTV DVR will allow you to record more than one camera’s images at the same time directly to an internal hard disk, while adding the time and date. The type of DVR you select for your installation will depend on the number of cameras you require or may need in the future, as standard they range form 4-16 cameras. CCTV DVR’s allow you create a split screen so you can see multiple cameras at once or you can just select the camera you are interested in. If you want the feature to connect your DVR to the Internet to allow remote viewing this too is possible. Configuring your DVR to allow you to see your property across the internet is becoming extremely popular and requires a little IT knowledge to configure the Router, Firewalls and your DVR. Selecting the type of CCTV camera depends on your budget and the quality you desire. An external camera will have an Infra Red distance, this is the maximum the camera could see in darkness, bare in mind that the rating means there and back as the Infra Red has to reflect back to the camera for the image to be visible. Also its worth noting that IR Cameras don’t work too well if they are just pointing at grass, trees or bushes are these are very absorbent. Cheaper cameras usually have a fixed lens, these are the easiest to install but don’t offer the flexibility of a vari-focal lens camera that allows you to change the focal length. A CCTV cameras resolution is measured in TV lines ie a camera with a 540 TVL sensor will generally have a higher resolution that a camera with a 400TVL CCD image sensor. Although the quality of a CCTV camera depends on more that just the TVL rating, the lens, circuitry and build quality can be more determental. Also the best cameras at night use whats called an ICR filter, this is other wise know as a True Day Night Camera and these cctv cameras generally offer up to a 30% increase in image at night compared to non ICR cameras. Buy your cameras with care from a reputable dedicated CCTV supplier as the quality can vary enormously. To install a system in your own home firstly work out where you would like to put the cameras and how far these points are from the likely location of the CCTV DVR recorder, work our how much cable you will need before you purchase your CCTV Kit to ensure you will have enough to reach your desired location. You will need a drill with a long drill bit, some ladders and just a little common sense!
The Movies Online
The Movies Online is the online aspect of The Movies. As well as its own section on the general Lionhead forums, TMO allows players to upload their own movies to the Internet for others to review and criticize. Reviews allow users to rate movies from 1 to 5 stars, as well as leave a comment. Comments are optional, though many members write as long as five paragraphs for reviews. When you upload your movie, you can place your movie into one of five different categories. Romance, Action, Comedy, Horror, and Sci-Fi. Comedy and Horror are the two most popular, followed by Sci-fi, Action, and Romance. This translates into Virtual Credits (VCs), a form of virtual currency that is used to buy new props, costumes, sets and to advertise online movies. When the game was first released, a "propshop" was advertised as the only way to spend VCs. Moviemakers were asked, not required, to upload their movies made using the game, earning them around 500 VCs. Each review was, and still is, worth 200 VC. Although no longer updated, the propshop still exists. However, it consists of old props. After The Movies Stunts & Effects was released, The Movies Online entire site was remade. The new TMO features a way to advertise your movies to the general public, using movie posters. Movie posters are uploaded and can be posted to the main movie-poster spot on the homepage for only 1,000 VC. Posters are randomly shown. This is currently, besides the propshop the only "offcial" way to spend VCs. Many community members of TMO require VCs to enter competitions. Although VCs are abundant, and almost all the everyday members have over 5,000 VC, VCs in competitions offer a fun, free way to win fake money. There is also an unofficial TMO Stock Market which uses VCs on movies and studios like a real stock market. Every week, Lionhead will pick out six movies to be featured on the TMO homepage. These movies can be submitted to fansites, who generally contact Lionhead on which movies they nominate for Hot Picks. Hot Picks are a very effective way of getting people to view your movie and earn VCs. The "Hall Of Fame" is the 9th TMO chart, which features the best TMO charts since the site was re-done at the release of Stunts & Effects. Before the site was re-done, there used to be a "Top Stars" chart, in which Top Stars were featured on the site. The Top Stars were fictional, and were often judged by how many films they appeared in on TMO. The charts are generally updated every 6 hours. The exact formula for how the charts are resolved is not publicly known, but numbers of unique viewers, peer rating and time elapsed since release of any given movie all play a role in calculating chart position.
Movies
There is no limit on movie length. The average movie length is between 30 seconds and 3 minutes, but user created films can be as long as budget will allow (although a 10 minute film might require over 20 game years of filming). In sandbox mode however, a director can have the movie shoot automatically with the correct options turned on, allowing a 15-20 minute movie made in about a minute. Once the actors, extras, director and crew are assigned to a film, production begins, with the entire staff of the film traveling between sets to film the movie. The sandbox mode allows films to be created without undergoing the lengthy production process, and with budgets of over $100 million. A film can be one of five genres: action, comedy, horror, romance or science fiction. The main effect genre choice has is that real world events affect popularity of different genres. (The Vietnam War decreases popularity of action, the Space Race increases the popularity of science fiction, World War II decreases the popularity of horror, the post-war period increase the popularity of horror, and the Great Depression increases the popularity of comedy). ScriptsPlayers are able to pick a script provided by the studio's writers or write their own, although automated scripts take longer to write in game time, while user-written scripts take longer to write in real time. For prewritten scripts, the player hires a writer at the Scriptwriting Office to make one. Multiple writers can collaborate on a single script in order to write it quicker. A series of upgrades, which are unlocked by winning studio awards, will allow the player to build higher quality Scriptwriting Offices, which increase the maximum rating a script can garner (1 star to 4 stars). The ability to write one's own script is enabled after unlocking the Custom Scriptwriting Office, which is itself unlocked from winning an award. It is limited in terms of quality to what the highest scripting office can produce. Writing a custom script follows a storyboard-like suite. For each scene, the player chooses a set for the scene and then the action that will occur during the scene (for example: 'Living Room 1: Enter Scared'). The actors and their costumes can be chosen, extras assigned roles and mood, lighting and weather settings altered. The process will cost money though, the price increasing for each scene. The player can chose to have the structure set out for them (e.g, Introduction, pursuit, conflict, resoloution) or "Freeform" mode, where there are no guidelines.
The studio
The studio lot is where sets and buildings are built. In order to increase the 'prestige' of the studio lot, the studio must be neat, free of litter, well laid out and with areas of grass, trees and decoration. Buildings must also be linked together by paths. Buildings and sets also decay, thus decreasing the quality of movies that they appear in. They will eventually become unusable if they do not receive maintenance or repair by your staff. The first four rival studios your studio will compete against are the following:
Later in the game these five studios open:
No other studios open for business after 2000.
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