JVC Enter The 4K World

Infocomm which was on this week in California is an increasingly important show and obviously important enough for JVC to show its hand in the 4K acquisition and projector world. On their stand was the above industrial looking 4K camera complete with unnamed lens. Reports (and pic above) from the guys from Colorspace reported that the camera has 3xCMOS chips (3840x2048) without pixel shifting. Each chip measuring 29x15mm. Adam from Colorspace reported that the recorder used was Astro's new 444 recorder.

The 4k projector showed its own content and also some live shots from the camera. More details soon.

This news comes on the same day that Jim Jannard (of RED) looks like he is stepping away from Oakley sunglasses after an offer to purchase his shares. Having seen his companies shares rocket on news of the RED camera we wonder if RED was always a clever way of preparing Oakley for sale.

RED has definitely forced Sony's 4K hand and now JVC's. Adam from Colorspace interestingly says in his report on CML that the differences between 4K and 2K are negligible.