Cisco pulled the plug on its Flip digital video camera earlier this week, putting an end to its line of popular, relatively low-cost dedicated digital video cameras. Up until December, Cisco had invested a lot of time and effort into building up the market for the device. Could Cisco’s stunning reversal be a harbinger of doom for an entire category of devices? With smartphones, tablets and your average pocket digital still camera able to take videos of increasingly high quality, often in high definition, is the bell tolling for standalone digital videocams?
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Will Camcorders Go the Way of the Pager?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 18, 2011 06:00 AMCisco pulled the plug on its Flip digital video camera earlier this week, putting an end to its line of popular, relatively low-cost dedicated digital video cameras. Up until December, Cisco had invested a lot of time and effort into building up the market for the device. Could Cisco’s stunning reversal be a harbinger of doom for an entire category of devices? With smartphones, tablets and your average pocket digital still camera able to take videos of increasingly high quality, often in high definition, is the bell tolling for standalone digital videocams?