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This is not the death of still photography. For one, a frame grab of a close up shot on HD video or even HDV tends to look pretty sharp and crisp, almost- but not quite- like a hi-res jpeg photo shot with strobes. Especially compared to a wide shot, the close ups tend to look sharper. So even though the resolution of this camera may be impressive, I believe that this is an atypical example.
Secondly, what content manager has time to sort through hundreds of thousands or millions of frames to decide on a hand picked selection of images without motion blur? It's easier to get dedicated hi-res photos shot with strobes to go along with the HD video. At least on shoots where there is control. For documentary, paparazzi and news gathering footage where there is no direction of the subjects possible, this may have more uses though.
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