Yes, I'm completely serious. Handheld snapshot cameras have always been way, way ahead in image resolution, optics, and image quality compared to high frame-rate video cameras. Just look at IP cameras older than about 3 or 4 years. With few exceptions, 640x480 was the best that most people could afford. At the same time a trip to Wal Mart could get you a 6 to 12 megapixel (snapshots) handheld camera for under $200. Nobody ever adapted this technology to an IP camera. If you wanted to buy IP cameras for $200, the best you could likely have done is 2 foscams.
Nowadays, in a point-and-shoot camera you can get 20 megapixels (snapshots, 720p@30fps video) for $68 on amazon.com, with 5x motorized optical zoom, autofocus, fairly good optics, an SD card slot, and even fancy features like smile detection. Consider what it would take to turn that into a kick-ass security camera. Strip out the unnecessary features like the LCD display, buttons, lithium battery, charger, optical image stabilization, permanent IR filter, etc. Add an RJ45 port, PoE power, mechanical IR filter, IR LEDs, and weatherproof enclosure, and mod the heck out of the firmware. Then you have a 1 MP security camera that can take 20 megapixel snapshots of criminals. Even if they had to sell it for 4 times the price, I would buy that.