{"id":1092,"date":"2011-04-17T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2011-04-17T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T05:00:46","slug":"the-short-lived-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"The Short Lived Flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-1702705-10685237\" target=\"_blank\">The Flip<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tqlkg.com\/image-1702705-10685237\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/> would have had such a short life. <\/p>\n<p>It hit the market in May 2006, became a popular product for <strong>Youtubers<\/strong> over the following years, was purchased by <strong>Cisco<\/strong> for $590 million in 2009 and then taken out of production a few days back, on the 12th of April, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Quite frankly, I don&#8217;t get it. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, there was some competition form the new phones. But I don&#8217;t like filming video with them. I prefer using a tripod mountable pocket camcorder, that nobody can just suddenly call to. I&#8217;d hate to need to run to the cell in the middle of filming to answer a call. <\/p>\n<p>I am interested in purchasing a tablet computer later on, hopefully one with a video camera in it. But at the moment only a few of them have tripod mounts and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B0030MITLW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=390961&#038;creativeASIN=B0030MITLW\">Kodak PlaySport<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=B0030MITLW\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is more durable and waterproof.<\/p>\n<p>I am considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-1702705-10685237\" target=\"_blank\">The Flip<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1702705-10685237\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/> now though because the company has discounted their models by $20, $30 if you use the <strong>Flip10<\/strong> coupon. They&#8217;re even offering free shipping and customization. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard raves about the HD version from <strong>Youtubers<\/strong> over the years so i&#8217;m curious. It might be something to own until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B004TTBP2A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=390961&#038;creativeASIN=B004TTBP2A\">Panasonic HM-TA20 Waterproof HD Pocket Camcorder<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=B004TTBP2A\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> drops in price after its release in May.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s research time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought The Flip would have had such a short life. It hit the market in May 2006, became a popular product for Youtubers over the following years, was purchased by Cisco for $590 million in 2009 and then taken out of production a few days back, on the 12th of April, 2011. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[166,211,724,1010,1056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}