>>4355614The point is that there is a low key movement right now towards dedicated use devices over having a do-it-all item like a phone. This dovetails with the whole "mindfulness" trend because using a camcorder is almost ritualistic compared to a phone or even a digicam for video. When you pull out a camcorder you're doing it with more purpose, and you're not geting distracted from whatever notifications are coming on the phone. You're also not thinking of immediately sharing to a story because it's so cumbersome to get the video off the SD card when you're away from your PC.
I guess the other point is that digicams of the era were mostly terrible for video and you were lucky if a DSLR or compact could do 480p or 720p at 30fps while in the same era dedicated camcorders were already capable of full HD.
Also because of EU tax reasons camcorders were classified differently from photo centric cameras and they got hit with a higher tax because they could film more than 30 minutes at a time. This is why digicams and DSLRs were limited to video files less than 30 minutes long, because more video time would put them in the camcorder class with a higher tax.
