Editing 2000s (section)

==== Video ====
* [[Digital camera]]s become widely popular due to rapid decreases in size and cost while photo resolution steadily increases. As a result, the digital cameras largely supplanted the [[analog camera]]s and the integration into [[camera phone|mobile phones]] increase greatly. Since 2007, digital cameras started being manufactured with the [[face recognition]] feature built in.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1109/ISSCS.2007.4292641 |chapter=A Review of Face Recognition Techniques for In-Camera Applications |title=2007 International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems |year=2007 |last1=Iancu |first1=Claudia |last2=Corcoran |first2=Peter |last3=Costache |first3=Gabriel |pages=1–4 |hdl=10379/1344 |isbn=978-1-4244-0968-6 |s2cid=39811202}}</ref>
* [[Flat panel display]]s started becoming widely popular in the second half of the decade displacing [[cathode-ray tube]]s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Michael J. |url=http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2009/12/top_technologies_of_the_decade.php |title=Top Technologies of The Decade |publisher=Blogs.pcmag.com |date=December 14, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110801003946/http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2009/12/top_technologies_of_the_decade.php |archive-date=August 1, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_deca/ynews_deca_ts1012 |title=Yahoo News |publisher=News.yahoo.com |access-date=November 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604045435/https://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_deca/ynews_deca_ts1012 |archive-date=June 4, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Handheld projector]]s enter the market and are then integrated into cellphones.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Projector Phone: A Study of Using Mobile Phones with Integrated Projector for Interaction with Maps |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221270608 |access-date=2022-02-02 |website=ResearchGate |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Digital video recorder|DVR]] devices such as [[TiVo]] became popular, making it possible to record television broadcasts to a [[hard drive]]-based digital storage medium and allowing many additional features including the option to fast-forward through commercials or to use an automatic [[Commercial skipping]] feature. This feature created controversy, with major television networks and movie studios claiming it violates copyright and should be banned. With the commercial skipping feature, many television channels place advertisements on the bottom on the TV screen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Digital Video Recorders (DVR) – An Interesting History |url=https://www.cctvcameraworld.com/digital-video-recorders-history.html |access-date=2022-02-02 |website=www.cctvcameraworld.com |date=April 12, 2019 |archive-date=February 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202135528/https://www.cctvcameraworld.com/digital-video-recorders-history.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Video on demand|VOD]] technology became widely available among cable users worldwide, enabling the users to select and watch video content from a large variety of available content stored on a central server, as well as gaining the possibility to freeze the image, as well as fast-forward and rewind the VOD content.
* DVDs, and subsequently [[Blu-ray Disc]]s, replace [[VCR]] technology as the common standard in homes and at video stores.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3335984/DVD-kills-the-video-show-as-digital-age-takes-over.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3335984/DVD-kills-the-video-show-as-digital-age-takes-over.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=DVD kills the video show as digital age takes over |first=Robert |last=Uhlig |date=November 22, 2004 |via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* Free Internet video portals like YouTube, [[Hulu]], and Internet TV software solutions like [[Joost]] became new popular alternatives to [[Television broadcasting|TV broadcasts]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Laura |title=Brief History YouTube |url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990787,00.html |magazine=Time |date=31 May 2010 |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406150801/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990787,00.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
* TV becomes available on the networks run by some mobile phone providers, such as [[Verizon Wireless]]'s [[Vcast]]. {{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}
* "[[High-definition television]]" becomes very popular towards the second half of the decade, with the increase of HD television channels and the conversion from analog to digital signals.<ref>{{cite web |last=Evenson |first=Kelly |url=http://www.examiner.net/news/x967382688/Gadgets-that-defined-the-last-decade |title=Gadgets that defined the last decade |publisher=Examiner.net |date=December 19, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222052308/http://www.examiner.net/news/x967382688/Gadgets-that-defined-the-last-decade |archive-date=February 22, 2012}}</ref>

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File:Canon powershot a95.jpg|[[Digital camera]]s gained massive popularity during the decade
File:Home cinema 01.jpg|[[Flat panel display]]s begin to displace [[cathode-ray tubes]]
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