Filed under: Digital Cameras

Red CEO, Jim Jannard, is stirring up trouble in the RED User forums, J. Wong-style. His latest volley discusses the new Mysterium “Monstro” sensor program, the next evolution (and future free upgrade) to the Mysterium X sensor slated for RED’s 5k Epic. The most interesting revelation though is this little nugget: in addition to Epic, RED plans to place Monstro into, “another camera aimed squarely at the DSLR market.” He later adds, “Future cameras will shoot ultra-high resolution stills and motion…” Now, considering that the second generation, full-frame, ~25 megapixel Mysterium X is already a serious challenge to 35mm film, we can only imagine what this DSLR with a third generation RED sensor might offer. Hear that Nikon? Your D90 is just the beginning of this story. Let’s just hope that televisions and monitors, already struggling to reach 4k, Quad HD can keep pace.

[Thanks, Jundai]

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV

You wouldn’t think that anyone in the market for a $3,000 handheld camera capable of shooting 3K HD at 100MB/s would somehow get confused enough to end up with a medicore LG plasma TV, but it seems like the folks at RED are worried — the company’s lawyers are preparing an opposition to LG’s filing for the “Scarlet” trademark, and they’ve filed for their own mark. It looks like RED is getting pretty serious about protecting its marks — president Jim Jannard is politely asking RED fans to include a trademark disclaimer when they post about the company’s products, and he says that the proceedings against LG are “just the tip of the iceberg.” Honestly, we think RED’s going to have a tough time selling a judge on the likelihood of confusion between a consumer-oriented HDTV and a decidedly pro-grade camera, but we’ve been surprised in the past — we’ll see how this one plays out.

Read - Jim Jannard forum post
Read - Request for extension of time to file opposition

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV, Portable Video

Details are totally sketchy, but it looks like there’s about to be another Red HD camera to lust after: a posting from CEO Jim Jannard on the Red user forums confirms that Red will be launching a “pocket professional” camera named “Scarlet” sometime this year, with prototypes to be shown off at NAB in April. Jannard says the camera won’t be a competitor or replacement for the Red One, but that’s all we’ve got for now — but you know we’ll be all over this thing as info comes in.

[Thanks, MonsterDog]

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